I was going to imitate it and transform it into something more English".
In Kontakte (Contacts), the real-world sounds are live, played by a pianist and a percussionist, and Stockhausen brings off a series of spectacular aural illusions in which prerecorded tape sounds appear to imitate, anticipate and transform the sounds of the live instruments before taking off into another world of their own.
Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes including "Leave Britney Alone," the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's "We Are the 99 Percent". She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users.
With appropriate quantitative modeling and technical staff, who can be readily acquired in the labor market, competitors can imitate the firms that are succeeding, and transform the technological advantages of the leaders into market-wide competitive necessities.
Imitating the Dog's breathtaking visuals flood the stalls with sea water and transform iron pillars into cascading fountains, ironically providing a contemporary equivalent of the magic lantern displays that ultimately forced such behemoth music halls out of business.
Indeed, once we conceive of nature as an organic whole, constantly becoming and transforming itself, then Schlegel's paradoxical determination "art should imitate nature" (SW III, 306) becomes quite coherent.
Django was hooked, and transformed.
Fascinating and transforming.
We, in turn, are always called upon to imitate God and so to transform our society into what King called a "beloved community". .
This paper addresses the problems of what to imitate and how to imitate in simple uni and bi-manual manipulatory tasks.
