The answer is - Absolute music
When a viewer suggested that one of Adams' photographs looked abstract, Adams corrected him- "I prefer the term 'extract' over 'abstract', since I cannot change the optical realities but only manage them."
<span> It was sparked by Stéphane Mallarmé.</span>
<span>Serialism is a compositional technique in which a</span><span> series of rhythms, dynamics, or tone colors could serve as a unifying idea. Arnold Schoenberg was the pioneer of such method when he composed the twelve-tone technique. Some of his contemporaries during that time period also attempted to do such composition but they were trying to establish it as form of post-tonal thinking.</span>