There it introduced itself as a promising offshoot of minimalism in the line of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
So Percussion sometimes plays other composers' music — it introduced itself with a superb recording of the Reich work — but it also writes its own.
Back in 2001, when the Gotham Chamber Opera was known as the Henry Street Chamber Opera, it introduced itself with the American stage premiere of a bona fide Mozart rarity, "Il Sogno di Scipione": a work that the composer wrote when he was 15 but that apparently went unperformed until 1979.
We gave our test bot a name and let it introduce itself like a real person would: "Hi, I'm Bot, Intercom's digital assistant".
It introduced itself here not with promises of delightful Russian cuisine but with the gimmick of front-door keys given out to its best customers that would allow them to visit when the restaurant was officially closed.
This thing is so aggressive and mean it even picks on people who, before it introduced itself, probably dismissed the same thoughts OCD sufferers have agonized over a million times before.
Then it approaches slowly, introduces itself and kindly asks a question, like some digital-age Socrates: "What is the best experience you've ever had?" For now, Mini-Me cannot do much more than cock its head at the answer and nod, before programmers begin to guide the conversation; the scientists are adding more language-recognition software, to extend interactions.
A door handle is like a handshake: it is how a car introduces itself.
It might introduce itself by its formal name, Pyrus calleryana, and brag about its trunk diameter (25.4 inches), its height (24 feet) and its impressive shade canopy (1,746 square feet).
