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SysOrk - Sylva Sylvarum

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1.	Sylva Sylvarum 3-13-2014 Pt. 1 12:20	buy track
2.	Sylva Sylvarum 3-13-2014 Pt. 2 15:29	buy track
3.	Sylva Sylvarum 3-13-2014 Pt. 3 12:48	buy track
4.	Sylva Sylvarum 3-14-2014 Pt. 1 12:19	buy track
5.	Sylva Sylvarum 3-14-2014 Pt. 2 14:06	buy track
6.	Sylva Sylvarum 3-14-2014 Pt. 3 14:10	buy track

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In "Sylva Sylvarum", over 250 pages of images generated from processing of musical notation are animated and layered with video to form a 40-minute score for the players that is projected to the audience as well. To create these scores, Sharp exports his composed notation into graphic-editing software such as Photoshop and GIMP where he uses similar processes to what he might use when mixing audio including filtering, feedback, and modulating with sine and square waves.

This album presents both nights of the premiere performances of "Sylva Sylvarum" at Roulette in Brooklyn, NY on March 13 and 14, 2014.

SysOrk is a situationally-based ensemble with members gathered together in any locale. SysOrk had its premiere in Japan in 2012 with concerts in Nagoya and Tokyo performing Sharp's graphic score "Foliage". With this NYC debut, SysOrk premiered a new graphic score by E#, "Sylva Sylvarum", as well as a performance of "Flexagons", an algorithmic score composed in 2011 for Sharp's Orchestra Carbon.

E# has worked extensively with graphic notation and algorithmic systems since 1972. An algorithmic score is basically a set of instructions for the musicians to generate a self-organizing system. While these approaches make use of improvisation, it is very different from so-called "free improvisation" or jazz-based improvising. Sharp's composition "SyndaKit" from 1998 was based on the mechanics of bird flocking, cellular automata, African drum choirs, and RNA replication. Flexagons are flat models, usually constructed by folding strips of paper, that can be flexed or folded in certain ways to reveal faces besides the two that were originally on the back and front. The composition "Flexagons" is similarly based on permutations of composed fragments and instructions on how to flex and fold them, ordered in time over the course of 40 minutes.

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released August 13, 2020

Performed by SysOrk:

Andrew Drury - drums, percussion
Terry L. Greene II - trombone
James Ilgenfritz - contrabass
Judith Insell - viola
Ron Lawrence - viola
Tim Leopold - trumpet
Jenny Lin - piano
Chris McIntyre - trombone
Oscar Noriega - reeds
Jessica Pavone- viola
Reuben Radding - contrabass
Danny Tunick - percussion, vibraphone
Elliott Sharp - electroacoustic guitar, bass clarinet.

Recorded in concert at Roulette Intermedium, NYC, Mar. 13 & 14, 2014 by Woramon Jamjod

MIxed and mastered at Studio zOaR NYC by E#

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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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