Orchestra Carbon: Quarks Swim Free

by Elliott Sharp

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1.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 1 07:52	buy track
2.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 2 03:48	buy track
3.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 3 10:24	buy track
4.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 4 11:00	buy track
5.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 5 09:14	buy track
6.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 6 08:49	buy track
7.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 7 07:16	buy track
8.	Quarks Swim Free Pt. 8 10:04	buy track

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QUARKS SWIM FREE - NOTES
Composed in 2003 and premiered by a quartet version of Carbon at the club Tonic in NYC and then reprised a few days later at the Venice Bienalle, Quarks Swim Free is a set of notated modules and rules for how they may be manifest to create a sonic organism that operates in contradictory but not mutually-exclusive ways: it exists both to create unisons and to mutate and fragment itself into new identities. The composed cores within the modules provide raw material for the basic operations of looping, imitation, and transformation. Quarks Swim Free may operate as a self-organizing system or with a conductor who may then initiate improvised extrapolations upon the core materials using a variety of prepared strategies. The particular performance documented here was conducted by E#. Other realizations of Quarks Swim Free have either been self-organizing or conducted by the "grand master" of conduction, Lawrence Butch Morris.

Each module may be played as a unit or may be divided up into its component cores. These cores may be played as discrete objects or may be looped. They may be looped as singular cores or chained with others both from within the module or from a different one.

Any material may be transposed at the octave. As to rhythm, One may be anywhere and is independent for each player. Independent determinations of One for each individual or for subgroups of players may be initiated by the conductor, a process called ReTriggering. As to tempo and duration, players may scale the composed material to any dimension, up or down - they may also freely interpret the written rhythms of the cores. Players may imitate and transform anything played by another player. All material may be used for looping including "pop-outs." "Pop-outs" may be used by players to make short improvised statements thereby introducing new material into the system - these improvisations can be completely of the musician's invention or may refer to the composed material in the piece or to another musician's output. "Pop-outs" should not contain "genre" references but remain within the system of the cores. The conductor may denote longer improvisations that are layered over the group interaction.

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released June 11, 2020

Kinan Azmeh - clarinet
Rudresh Mahanthappa - alto saxophone
Curtis Fowlkes - trombone
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Rachel Golub - violin
Liuh-Wen Ting - viola
Alex Waterman - cello
Brad Jones - bass
Kevin Ray - bass
Reuben Radding - bass
Jenny Lin - piano
Danny Tunick - percussion
E# - conduction, soprano sax, bass clarinet

Recorded in concert at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, Sept. 25, 2006

Jody McAllister - sound recording

Mastered at Studio zOaR - NYC by E#

Image courtesy of CERN www.cern.ch

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Elliott Sharp New York, New York

Elliott Sharp: composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, author, leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies including fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors as well as new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art. ... more

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