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Ethereal Wave. From left to right: Robin Guthrie, Elizabeth Fraser and Simon Raymonde, of Cocteau Twins Ethereal wave,[1] also called ethereal darkwave[2] in Europe and ethereal goth[3] or simply ethereal[4] in the United States, is a term that describes a subgenre of dark wave music.[5][6] Developed in 1983 and 1984 as an outgrowth of gothic rock, ethereal was mainly represented by bands such as Cocteau Twins[7] and the early Dead Can Dance.

Ethereal Wave

Ethereal is strongly associated with the Projekt label, which features some of the most well known names of the US scene. Other labels that feature some of the leading lights of the movement are Tess Records[9] (This Ascension, Autumn), Yvy Records (Faith & Disease) and Middle Pillar (Aenima). Notable artists[edit] Manifold. The surface of the Earth requires (at least) two charts to include every point.

Manifold

Here the globe is decomposed into charts around the North and South Poles. The concept of a manifold is central to many parts of geometry and modern mathematical physics because it allows more complicated structures to be described and understood in terms of the relatively well-understood properties of Euclidean space. Manifolds naturally arise as solution sets of systems of equations and as graphs of functions. Manifolds may have additional features. MIT 21M.380 Music and Technology (Contemporary History and Aesthetics), Fall 2009.