For electronic music, published scores have so far adopted either strict graph form (Karlheinz Stockhausen, Electronic Study II; see illustration) or pictorial form, using patterned drawings to represent different timbres (as in Henri Pousseur's Electre [see illustration] and Stockhausen's Kontakte).
McNally aimed for the drawings to represent the ebb and flow of the Thames, as well as the city's pulsating rhythms.
One technique that is sometimes used in gesture drawings is to represent mass by making circular motions.
We also made use of historical drawings and photographs to represent the internal structure of the concrete basement and the non-extant original superstructure.
However, only drawings are not enough to represent the diversity of facets a tailorable system may have, hence a more formal approach needs to be adopted.
Students were to represent in drawings and equations two multiplicatively related unknown heights (e.g., one was 5 times another).
Since molecular structures are inherently vector diagrams, being originally composed by the software using a small dictionary of shapes: lines, circles, curves, etc., it is strongly preferable to represent the drawings in a vector format, which ensures that they can be rendered as perfectly as the device allows, whether it be a screen, a printer, or a print-ready file format like PDF.
The art style seems to represent Mr. Johnston's drawings faithfully, but it would have been nice to see more variety in the settings, which all generally look alike, and to hear more music than just snippets from a few of Mr. Johnston's songs.
The book, released this summer by Princeton Architectural Press, stems from a 2013 exhibition at Harvard that was meant to provoke architecture and design students to look to cartography for different tools and creative ways to represent the landscape in drawings, according to Desimini.
The last dozen drawings simply represent their dialogue, tender, wry, gently reproachful, as Beatrice takes him up through the planets to explain the mysteries of God's universe.
Are the drawings, which represent the bulk of this artist's surviving work, worth all the fuss?
