In the new three-movement pattern, a minuet sometimes replaced the fast, abstract finale.
But mostly it was kinetic music whose shape was dictated by the fast actions of the musicians: all were playing as intensely as they could around a basic idea, with Mr. Brown getting a hard, slicing touch on fast, abstract lines, the bassist Charnett Moffett slapping the strings with his thumb and the drummer Chris Dave clattering out tough fills.
In "Pursuance," the suite's third part, Mr. Marsalis played loud, fast and abstract, staying in the bottom range of his saxophone with a bright tone.
Fast-moving abstract images aligned to the music were projected upon them, both individually and as an entirety, an uneven canvas.
A former principal dancer with Maurice Béjart, Mr. Weiland will present two linked premieres that focus on truth and humans' infinite capacity for self-deception, in a modern-dance style that has been described as fast-paced, abstract and technically demanding.
"The culturally specific," said Stephen Daldry, the British theater director, "in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in this country".
Deadlines for the IEEE eScience 2016 conference in Baltimore Maryland are fast approaching — abstracts are due Monday May 16, and full papers due one week later on May 23!
The style of Vladislav Delay's new EP, Ripatti.04, could be called "Finnish footwork," though any resemblance it bears to the fast-paced, abstract footwork genre from Chicago, he tells me, is a result of either osmosis or pure coincidence.
Those disciplinary histories also affect the labels people place social art and performance whether they judge it to be intelligible or unintelligible, spectacular or restrained, ironic or earnest, alienating or interactive, socially-engaged or narcissistic, referential or abstract, fast or slow.
These survivors--let's call them "befrienders," for the sake of convenience--are doing something beyond just holding fast to an abstract opposition to capital punishment or a belief in forgiveness.
Behaviourally, lexical decision reaction times for the concrete condition were significantly faster than both abstract and pseudoword conditions and the abstract condition was significantly faster than the pseudoword condition (p < 0.05).
