It was because of the strength of Mr. Meier's composition that the front lawn of the Rachofsky house remained empty for so long as the back and side yards filled up with ecstatic works by Julian Schnabel, Joel Shapiro, Paul McCarthy and many others.
"People are ecstatic to work for Google, and people are dying to work for Google," he insisted.
The score to his ecstatic orchestra work "Prometheus: The Poem of Fire" includes a part for a color organ, intended to project colors into the concert hall.
Its closest equivalent (and its obverse) would be someone like the Los Angeles-based Ryan Trecartin's trashy, perverse, ecstatic video work.
Animal Collective played a set of well-practiced, neatly arranged freaking out, using electronic sound samples, processed guitar and lots of wild, elastic, almost ecstatic singing: working under the afternoon's dry heat, the band seemed to be expelling demons and worked against the coziness and knowingness of the crowd, the I'll-blog-about-you-blogging-about-me energy.
The formidable French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, a champion of contemporary music, is an ideal performer of Messiaen's ecstatic piano works.
Let's leave the last word to Henry Efe Diemesor in Lagos: "Lagos is ecstatic!!! Fire works, trumpets, it's a carnival.
One of the thrills of the mashup is identifying two well-known artists unwittingly complementing each other's strengths and limitations: bacchanalian rapper Missy Elliott combined with morose English rock band Joy Division, ecstatic Madonna working with furious Sex Pistols.
"I have known and read Jenny Egan for 25 years, and I am ecstatic about working with her on her next books," said Nan Graham, who was recently promoted to publisher at Scribner and who played a key role in wooing Ms. Egan.
