The evaluations were achieved using questionnaires designed to assess five light quality factors: 1) visual comfort; 2) naturality; 3) pleasantness; 4) precision (of details and textures) and 5) light level.
Viewed from a side street today, they have the precision and texture of a finely tuned machine.
Clarity of texture and precision of gesture carried these lively performances.
The ocean motif works through the rest of the concert, with two other experiments in sound — "La Mer" (1903-5) by Debussy and "Déserts" (1950-54) by Varèse — that depend on precision of attack and subtlety of texture.
The big pieces in the first two concerts, Bartok's "Wooden Prince" and Schoenberg's "Pelleas und Melisande," are both favorites of Mr. Boulez's, and both succumb readily to his present conducting style, in which his characteristic gifts of clarity of texture and precision in detail and tuning are joined by a grand spaciousness.
The combination of historical precision, literary texture, and epic sweep won Renault a large public, particularly in the United States; her books, which have been translated into some twenty languages, have sold millions of copies in English alone.
They did not have to replay any glum what-if possibilities because of eight seconds of precision, of fundamental beauty, that added texture and nuance to what otherwise would seem just another overpowering victory.
The conductor Ingo Metzmacher matches the straightforwardness of Mr. Stein's staging with a performance notable for lucid textures and precision of execution — the orchestra is of scarcely more than chamber dimensions — yet the cumulative impact of the jam-packed score is strong.
At first the work's variegated strands move at different speeds and compete for attention, but they gradually fall together to create an interlocking contrapuntal texture with the precision of a Swiss-watch mechanism.
Georges Aperghis's "Quatre Pièces Fébriles" for piano and marimba (1995) is similarly an exploration of texture, of the piano's resonance, as opposed to the marimba's dry precision — and, sometimes, vice versa.
(Anderson 20110616 Ben Munisteri Dance Projects (Friday through Sunday) A program of three works includes "Catalog," an attempt to create fresh incarnations of texture and rhythm; "Binary 2.0," a study in counterpoint; and the new "Robot vs. Mermaid," which emphasizes design, precision and structure.
