Its unhurried instrumental pieces touch on funk, progressive rock, dub reggae and less defined styles, calmly paring them down to patterns that are sparse and inexorable.
One of the most unforgettable objects is a scroll that is sparse in imagery except for a fat and happy black cat rendered in ink.
Reportedly inspired by classical music to make the album (she listened to Beethoven, Bach, and Handel before laying down the tracks), Harvey has delivered a collection that is sparse, tight, and on the cusp of being impenetrable.
Her simple, slow-burning narratives, set against musical arrangements that are sparse and effective (with a strong nod to contemporary electronica), make her one of the great popular artists, and storytellers, of our time.
In the first stage, uncertainty originates from data that are sparse, noisy, ambiguous, or derived from heterogeneous samples.
Consider a signal that is sparse in some basis (often using a wavelet-based transform coding scheme).
In the real-world video sequence, however, there rarely exists the movement turbulence that is sparse in nature.
However, the assumptions that underlie sequence analyses are based on experimental results that are sparse and usually designed to address different questions.
Yang's algorithm suffers from the limit of recovering the image that is sparse in spatial domain; when it comes to recover the images that are non-sparse in spatial domain, it fails to reconstruct.
A SPIKE scheme with multi-level parallelism is also introduced for solving large banded systems that are sparse within the band.
