Although West is adept at making idiosyncratic records, he has dominated 2010 by doing so many different things that it feels almost naïve to discuss him as a recording artist.
He helped start a label, Sleeping Bag, in 1982; it gave him an outlet to make more creative and idiosyncratic dance records, using his cello's thunking lines and rhythmic scratches against the drums and bass.
The basic narrative details of each incident are still confined, largely, to local police records, using idiosyncratic method for recording, storing and reporting data.
Investigations is his ambitious, idiosyncratic but fascinating record of where he has got to.
"Genres come not from scientific theory but from the ad hoc and idiosyncratic labels that record companies attach to music for marketing and publicity purposes," says Levitin, author of the best-selling book This Is Your Brain on Music.
During their first weeks with the label, the sisters made the rather idiosyncratic choice to record a jazz-influenced rendition of the Yiddish song "Bei mir bist du schon".
Well, because idiosyncratic events are recorded through idiosyncratic marks in their bodies.
Much of Mr. Erwitt's international reputation is based on the way his camera records idiosyncratic twists to familiar things.
It's fair to say that Dylan's performance was idiosyncratic, and the recording reveals his nervousness, but many there, notably Eric Clapton, were blown away.
Two years later, Francis Beaufort, a British naval officer frustrated by the idiosyncratic weather descriptions recorded at sea, proposed twelve standardized gradations of wind strength, from "calm" to "hurricane": the Beaufort scale.
It's a record of idiosyncratic arrangements and undanceable rhythms, of hiss, static and noise, of abrupt jolts of tempo and riffs that emerge in the mix then just as suddenly disappear.
