Gerd Beerbohm played an electronic drum, but one he had to physically hit with a drumstick for 22 minutes, leading to subtle variations in the beat – a fitting pairing for Moebius's endlessly shifting electronic improvisations.
It was as though the city's skin had been shed, leaving in its wake a day-glo digital doppelganger soundtracked by a shifting electronic music palette one that would have made the great Bob Moog proud.
I Don't Need Another Lover, for example, pulls off that Jessie Ware-esque trick of encasing a fairly straightforward love song in a constantly shifting, electronic-tinged setting, while I've Waited For You sounds like finger tips tapping skin.
The exchange's contingency plan calls for a shift to electronic trading – still a difficult proposition, as far as the markets go, because even for electronic trading, the traders currently need access to their desks and computers.
From its headquarters in Times Square, Nasdaq has done more than anyone else to draw business away and diminish the exchange, and in the shift to electronic trading the Big Board itself adopted ever more automation and set up its own electronic-only market, called Arca.
Commerce Bank, like many others, does not plan to shift to electronic processing right away.
But in addition, campaigns like Mr. Geithner's for a shift to electronic trading have paid off.
They are more common because a shift to electronic filing makes errors easier to spot.
Then it will decline gradually because of a moderate shift to electronic bill payments and e-mail messages.
Swaps and derivatives will not be far behind.For investment banks the shift to electronic platforms is a mixed blessing.
