Only last month, Dr. Alpher was awarded the National Medal of Science at a White House ceremony where he was cited for "his unprecedented work" on the origin of cosmic particles, "for his prediction that universe expansion leaves behind background radiation and for providing the model for the Big Bang theory".
In the process, he's arguably granted generative music a degree of mainstream exposure unprecedented in the work of his forebears even Eno, who seems to mostly approach it as a theoretical exercise.
The ideal of objective research has continued to guide Anglo-American literary scholarship and criticism and has prompted work of unprecedented accuracy.
In the end, I can only smile, shake my head and bow to him and his crew for their work of unprecedented scope and ambition.
Not only does the form of the piece share characteristics with internet social networking in its creation of public personae for private citizens, but, in a quite unprecedented way for a work of art, One and Other is being documented online on sites such as Twitter – where its popularity as a subject for discussion this week effortlessly outstripped that of Big Brother.
Music writer Simon Reynolds calls the album "a work of unprecedented density for hip hop, its claustrophobic, backs-against-the-wall feel harking back to Sly Stone's There's a Riot Goin' On or even Miles Davis' On the Corner".
No, he wanted me to know that a few month's ago he'd put a poem up on the board at work an unprecedented, unheard-of act.
The steps Bush outlined in somewhat more (though still sketchy) detail will come mostly in the form of police work, albeit police work of an unprecedented intensity, breadth, urgency, and global scale.
He warned the crowd of thousands that if his rival were elected "it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis and the work of government would grind to an unbelievable, unglorious [sic] halt".
