Yet despite some cumbersome passages that could use more attention, Mr. Adès's arresting compositional voice comes through almost continually: his ear for pungent harmony; his layering of every-which-way contrapuntal lines, which somehow remain audible; his impish blending of diverse musical styles.
The obsessively dark Gareth Pugh has finessed a commercial look for his lagoon-murky layers.
The oldest object is a spectacular Victorian Valentine's card, made by Jonathan King in 1861 for his fiancee, with layers of lace paper and gauze unfolding to reveal poems, flowers, shells, romantic messages, and a gold ring concealed in a tiny paper drawer.
Although Mr. Guzmán, 44, has been making multimedia work for years, he is probably best known for his exuberant, densely layered ink drawings.
MIT professor Keeril Makan, a musician and composer acclaimed for his technique of layering recorded and live sounds, has been awarded the prestigious Luciano Berio Rome Prize for musical composition by the American Academy in Rome for 2008-2009.
When I finally lumbered downstairs 15 minutes later for coffee, he was sitting on a stool at our island eating the toast slathered with peanut butter that he'd made himself and already dressed in warm layers for his day on the slopes.
McInnerny wore a prosthetic mask with two layers for his transformation scene though the production team's best boy provided motion capture for the computer-generated profile of the appendages coming out of his mouth when this needed to be refilmed and McInnerny was unavailable.
On the contrary, he is simply too busy for the endless sedentary hours required for his obsessive technique, which involves layer on layer of acrylics applied to create a flawless, seamless surface.
Mr. Koolhaas is known for his preoccupation with horizontal layering, rendering buildings like off-kilter sandwiches.
As dusk fell, the man began to think that maybe climbing sandals weren't the best footwear, nor cotton Dickies the best outer layer for his task.
