In the WEDM process there is no relative contact between the tool and work material, therefore the work material hardness is not a limiting factor for machining materials by this process.
Although reference is made to some 70 different materials, the work is more an effort at classification than systematic description.
According to publicity materials, the work is a move toward abstraction for Ms. Eagly, known for conjuring darkly comic worlds replete with mystery.
From its humble origins documenting live performances, the studio turned into a music-maker itself, retooling raw material -- the work of musicians -- into a finished product.
Equally, they still fear they may be raw material for the work.
Susan Tunick, head of the Friends of Terra Cotta, says that the material was the work of the New Jersey Terra Cotta Company.
The meticulous editing and reorganisation of the original material was the work of the great John Barton, my deeply revered colleague from our decades together at the RSC.
Mr. O'Regan's often dense rhythms and counterpoint make it hard to spot the source material within the work's invitingly variegated textures.
The material is the work of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics professor Anette Hosoi, working with a team including her former graduate student Nadia Cheng and other researchers.
