A lot has happened in that span; everything from easy electronic passage to our society's cesspits to celebrity disintegration as a spectator sport.
The shows promise full stage sets, 3-D video imagery and — though it may not be visible behind Kraftwerk's electronic consoles — passages of musical improvisation.
Electronic conduction is the passage of free electrons through a material.
The second part, more densely electronic, includes a breathtaking passage that suggests phantom voices lost in a purple-gray Ligetian fog.
Glitchy beats, heavily treated vocals and passages of pulverising electronic noise are all still present, and there's an abiding mood of kohl-eyed gloom.
For all its anthemic qualities, however, Duchess's most bewitching moments came with its intro and outro: ambient, elemental passages of programmed electronic drums that suggest the band were paying attention to the experimental work of Brian Eno.
"Good Name" is an equally epic song, released six years later, which takes listeners on a thrill ride of complicated electronic beats, slap-happy synthesizer passages, and surprising video-game-like effects.
Grainy microtonal passages and sonorous electronic episodes figured into a constantly shifting musical terrain; Mr. Fulmer's part came in and out of focus amid a welter of competing sensations.
In an original touch, New Amsterdam has included two remixes by Matmos, an electronic music group, which took passages from the quartet recordings and reconfigured them imaginatively by weaving in beats, drones and computer timbres, and making them into virtually new works.
And the sculpture is not simply to be looked at; it's to be crawled inside of, where the visitor can peer through peepholes and watch the shower scene from the 1982 sex romp "Porky's," edited down by Kelley to be accompanied by passages from the electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnik.
