The Chinese Room was also keen for the score to function as a piece of modern classical music in its own right.
Ostensibly, the bubble functioned as a piece of sophisticated equipment designed to inform the captain of the ship's attitude.
The Lord of the Rings and Back to the Future have their advocates, but now that Toy Story 3 is here, I doubt that Pixar's three signature cartoons can be matched for their consistent quality, or for the way each episode functions as both a piece of a larger whole, and as an accessible and satisfying work in its own right.
Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a "B+" rating and found the negative reaction overly cynical, reasoning that the album functions simply as "a piece of well-constructed political program music ... lyrical, ugly, and rousing, all in the right places".
It's more Max patches, but it functions like a piece of software.
With a clip-shaped device which has a small actuator and a sensor, we can provide a motion as an active function to a piece of paper without any loss of the characteristics of the paper.
He also hopes the end result will play a secondary role, like the Bayeux Tapestry in France, functioning not just as a piece of art but also as a historical document.
In a nutshell, an API is a set of programming functions provided as part of a piece of software (such as the iPhone OS) to allow you to do certain things (such as access the camera hardware or the GPS) without having to reinvent the wheel.
That's the key question in "Thelonious Monk: Paris 1969," a new DVD-CD combo that functions as a companion piece of sorts for the bittersweet "Straight No Chaser," a 1988 documentary assembled from footage of Monk and his band in 1968.
Behind it all is Blueface, who despite his relative inexperience, understands how music functions in today's economy, and has created a self-aware character that functions both as a musician and also as a piece of pliable internet content.
Open image in new window Fig. 6 a Conductivity as a function of time of a piece of Nafion® 117 immersed in a system with KOH.
