The guitarist, Tim Sult, played baggy leads through a wah-wah pedal, and the bassist, Dan Maines, pushed around loud, melodic bass lines, but there wasn't much exploration of texture.
Georges Aperghis's "Quatre Pièces Fébriles" for piano and marimba (1995) is similarly an exploration of texture, of the piano's resonance, as opposed to the marimba's dry precision — and, sometimes, vice versa.
Mr. Dutoit opened his program with Henri Dutilleux's harmonically bracing "Timbres, Espace, Mouvement, ou la Nuit Étoilée" (1978, revised 1990), a three-movement exploration of texture, inspired by van Gogh's "Starry Night".
The composer Matthias Pintscher conducted the group in the Mozart and Schoenberg, and in his own "Occultation" (2010), an atmospheric, mysterious exploration of texture and mood (mostly dark), with prominent though not particularly virtuosic lines for trumpet and French horn, and variegated, often vigorous percussion.
The track is an exploration of texture through a series of layers forged from feedback and loop pedals, culminating in an abrasion that loftily swells and recedes.
While the project started out as more of an exploration of texture and sensuality, Sarley's work has shifted to become more directly confrontational of censorship and attacks against women.
The show notes promised "an exploration of textures, surface and fabrics" but the takeaway from Whistles's spring/summer 2015 collection was that jumpsuits - a signature look from Jane Shepherdson's brand - have migrated to menswear.
At first glance, his pieces may seem to be free-form explorations of texture.
When it comes to the composition of figures, or the representation of light, or the explorations of texture, Rembrandt "never resorted to ready-made solutions", as the art historian Ernst Van de Wetering puts it.
During that time, it explored the connective tissue between post-rock's reconsideration of song structure and the rise of heavy metal as an aesthete's music, and its consequent explorations of texture.
Ms. Altfest's sustained, almost scientific explorations of texture, color and shape have led to a surge of interest in her work and, most recently, a 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship.
