This inspired nonsense is served up in an inventive time-jumping format that takes some getting used to.
He creates inventive time-lapse animations, monolithic installations, turns footage of trees into psychedelic freak outs and turned The XX album into an instillation.
Jamal and his spirited sidemen made a triumphant London appearance last year, and the 83-year-old leader – daintily dapper as ever in a grey collarless suit and with a smile almost as luminous as his music – was just as playfully inventive this time around.
Nicholas Meyer used a screen version of Wells as the hero of his inventive 1979 film "Time After Time," and 80's filmgoers got two, "Back to the Future" and "The Terminator".
But Mr. Muhly's score is frustratingly uneven: at times inventive and intricate, at other times static and thin.
Mr. Matz, 86, is working on his 50th year as a full-time (10 years earlier, part-time) inventive yet veracious mastermind of promotion and protector of reputations (of unions, developers, lawyers, seven congressmen and Mario M. Cuomo, among others).
Those who were skeptical of diffusionist claims offered an alternative theory that became known as independent innovation: humans were by their very nature inventive, and, given time, each culture group would invent whatever it needed.
It was marvelously inventive for its time.
Drawing comparisons to James Joyce's works, Self's roughly 400 pages of stream of consciousness contain multiple perspectives, inventive wordplay, unannounced time shifts, and paragraphs lasting 10 pages, all unrelieved by a chapter break.
