droning

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“Ups & Downs” is an instrumental with a droning keyboard—perhaps a harmonium—along with a clarinet and clattering percussion that sounds like a drum kit being slowly unpacked from its case.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

"It is a very low humming, droning, pulsating noise. It's incredibly intrusive and distressing," she said.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

Lynch follows Jack Nance’s Henry Spencer as he tries to care for his newborn child, while the droning industrial noise of Henry’s urban surroundings only magnifies his loneliness.

From Salon • Jan. 25, 2025

Her compositions combine droning dissonance, piano and strings to create a moody and evocative electronic ambient score that lends a contemporary flavor.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

The barks faded and a chorus of night insects rose up in their place, droning and alien.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs