Together with Pierre Boulez, Stockhausen led that stylistic revolution by example, not only establishing the new language of total serialism but developing it conceptually and formally in a series of dazzlingly effective works.
To recruit a character, the player must perform a number of songs that represent that character's musical genre within a stylistic venue; for example, the first character, the mohawk-wearing Johnny Napalm, has a number of punk songs available, and uses the now-defunct CBGB Club in New York City as his venue.
His extant writings include display speeches, purportedly in defence of Helen and Palamedes against charges of treachery (DK 82B11 and 11a); they seem to be intended partly as examples of stylistic brilliance for its own sake and partly as demonstration of skill in adversarial argument, 'making the weaker argument the stronger' (see above).
Take, for example, the stylistic wars that raged through the 1960s and '70s.
Read's note, then, is an example of stylistic status anxiety, which is in some contexts perfectly sensible.
As with other stylistic labels – "baroque", for example, or "Gothic" – "Googie" started as a term of scorn.
With a heaping helping of action alternating between brutal 80's horror and exhilarating 80's action, HIT TV is a pure example of stylistic indulgence.
It is here, with people idling in the moody Tokyo drizzle wearing neon-color garments, their hair in a snood, that you will encounter examples of a stylistic dispersion possible only in a country whose isolationist history endowed its inhabitants with the ability to take anything material the world had to offer and to transform it into something their own.
This short video present some examples of the stylistic walk sequences that were synthesized in this work and presented to the participants of the user assessment tests.
When stylistic influences were present, for example, were there intellectual or religious transformations that accompanied them?
