It was written for 16 player pianos, xylophones, percussion and airplane propellers; the composer wrote that it was "the first piece of music that has been composed out of and for machines, on earth".
"But he's so composed out there, doesn't get excited.
Bumgarner is composed out there, his expression mournful, almost apologetic, even while delivering his wide-wing, slinging stuff.
Playing on a show court for the first time, you seemed so relaxed and composed out there.
He did it once in an extraordinary short film, "La Jetée," which he made in 1962, a science-fiction story composed out of still photographs.
Dettman's early programs listen and respond; MARY3 is composed out of all the stories that Ruth Dettman has uploaded into it – from Puritan Mary through Turing to the Dettmans' marital breakdown.
Cusk has tuned in to our curiosity about the lives of others, and composed out of that curiosity something capacious and generous, making room for all the contradictory stories clamouring for space on her page.
"Imagine a city composed out of quips," we may be enjoined; or a city in which everyone flies around in aeroplanes; or an unmappable city; or a City of Silence.
Like every good atom, these poems are composed out of empty space and points of light – the dazzle of the poet's vision, the space for the reader to reimagine matter, the matter, what matters, what is the matter?
The Johannesburg-born swimmer is as composed out of the water as she is committed in it but her mask fell when she spotted former training partner and Athens bronze medallist Steve Parry.
