Shoal in rivers, streams, and lakes. A shoal–sandbar may seasonally separate a smaller body of water from the sea, such as: The term "bar" can apply to landform features spanning a considerable range in size, from a length of a few metres in a small stream to marine depositions stretching for hundreds of kilometers along a coastline, often called barrier islands. They are typically composed of sand, although they could be of any granular matter that the moving water has access to and is capable of shifting around (for example, soil, silt, gravel, cobble, shingle, or even boulders). The grain size
Granular synthesis possible. Greek composer Iannis Xenakis is known as the inventor of the granular synthesis technique. Canadian composer Barry Truax was one of the first to implement real-time versions of this synthesis technique. "Granular synthesis has been implemented in different ways, notably by the Canadian composer Barry Truax." There are now many dedicated devices available for exploring granular synthesis without using a computer. Many of these devices are in the Eurorack modular synthesizer format, such as: Granular synthesis Granular synthesis is a basic sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale. It is based on the same principle as