The score, played with commitment by the All Stars (Felix Fan, cellist; Robert Black, bassist; Vicky Chow, pianist; David Cossin, percussionist; Vasko Dukovski, clarinetist; and Mark Stewart, electric guitarist), featured low piano notes that rang out like bells and clarinet and guitar motifs that echoed over the insistent patterns of the lower strings.
Hence, perhaps, the animal prints prowling over the collection, first as a faint impression on the back of a white jacket, then as a more insistent pattern.
Many are of pensive young men, often set in environments of insistent patterning -- stripes on wallpaper, bedsheets and neckties -- that flattens and destabilizes pictorial space.
Many are of pensive young men, often set in environments of insistent patterning -- stripes on wallpaper, bedsheets and neckties -- that flattens and destablizes pictorial space.
These frescoes, marked with a pervasive concern for elegant linear forms and insistent, stylized patterning of landscape features, are consistent with the late Gothic tradition that was still predominant at the beginning of the 15th century in Florentine studios.
"Cruel Sister," steeped in the post-Minimalist style, begins with the lower strings laying down a hypnotic pattern of insistent eighth-notes.
This eclectic vocabulary, while adroitly handled, never quite conveyed the full horror of the subject; an excess of insistent ostinato patterns caused the mind to wander.
Mr. Waller's "Allegoria Della Primavera," inspired by Botticelli's painting of that name, opened with insistent Minimalist patterns dispatched in swift, frolicsome sequence.
J. Fernandez, a band from Chicago, drew on the motoric patterns of bands like Stereolab and the shifty meters of progressive rock in songs that were modest on the surface but gently insistent.
The spontaneous imitation carried on between an instrumentalist and narrator, against the insistent rhythmic subtleties of the drums, can be a source of the greatest excitement, which in large measure is because of the faithful adherence to the rigid rules that govern the rendition of ragas the ancient melodic patterns of Indian music.
