DH: For me, being magnetized by a piece of music is an elemental part of being a musician and being a listener…it's something that I trust.
A modified gradient method is used in the finite-element context to successively add pieces of constrained damping layers at the elemental positions showing the steepest gradient of the goal function as a result of the treatment.
Their family had tapped into something elemental, they said -- a piece of old-fashioned, innocent small-town Americana that had hung on somehow despite all the changes of accelerated modern life, but they really couldn't say for sure why any of it was so.
It's a riveting piece, shocking in its elemental violence, and the Paris dancers give it everything they have.
With its woozy, elemental charm, it's of a piece with the rest of the group's discography; nothing else quite sounds like them.
Other pieces dwelled more generally on elemental textures, such as fixed harmonies, drones, and shimmering patterns.
(There's a quiz: "Donald Judd, or cheap furniture?") The majority of the pieces are so innocuous, so elemental, that they blend easily with everything else in a room.
But the anxiety and scurrying figures elemental to many of Shostakovich's mature pieces can already be heard here, casting a paranoid shadow over the sweetly romantic landscape of his youthful trio.
Prime examples of what we now call Arte Povera's aesthetic of industrially derived materials bumping up against conceptual wit, these pieces are large-scale and elemental.
The piece comes across as an elemental, shimmering mass of layered sounds, nuanced colors and stacked-up harmonies.
