For the next three decades, "Docs" were worn by successive style tribes, their meaning subtly evolving with each new appropriation.
And their particular hybrid of wistful rock and synthesized pop — Mr. Gibbard's high, unassuming voice over Mr. Tamborello's terse, subtly evolving arrangements, shyly hinting at electronic dance music — turned out, over the next decade, to be a template for hits from Owl City, Passion Pit and others.
But the group is also listening to low-tech party music from Brazil, South Africa, Jamaica, Martinique and Puerto Rico, channeling them all into rhythms that start out pithy — often just a live or electronic drum and a blipping two-note electro riff — yet insistently kinetic, then subtly evolve to keep the tracks crackling.
In both videos it's as if a virtual camera deep-dives into what look like selfsame fractal images of animals and buildings, but which are actually subtly evolving objects and alien-looking landscapes.
Since the dawn of thought, it seems, they've been at once nurturing, water-providing, subtly evolving forms of endless entertainment and fixation across the world; divine sources of inspiration, reflecting light, and characterizing our atmosphere with unique and transient beauty. .
The findings of Nitta et al. also indicate that transcription factors do not evolve to recognize subtly different DNA motifs, but instead appear constrained to recognize the same motifs.
He said: "Over time these folk tales have been subtly changed and have evolved just like an biological organism".
It's more likely that the scandal is the product of an engineering organization that evolved its technologies in a way that subtly and stealthily, even organically, subverted the rules.
Built on two-minute segments that build subtly and evolve organically, Villalobos utilized the haunting "When I see the towers fall" catchphrase once per minute to repeatedly snap us listeners back to reality just as we start to get lost in its dense atmospherics.
They evolved into more elegant, billowing wall sculptures, partly translucent, almost like stained glass, rounded, sometimes backlighted and subtly colored, allusive but still abstract.
