The Kodiak Trio - Perfection Requires Someone Watching - Red Note Jazz

This release is presented as a single, internally balanced document rather than a collection of separate performances. The album advances through carefully proportioned tensions, allowing density and openness to trade roles without hierarchy. Materials are introduced with deliberation, withheld until structural necessity requires their presence. The ensemble operates as a unified mechanism, each element adjusting pressure in response to the others rather than asserting dominance.

The work is a conceptual ensemble recording created through human artistic direction and artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is employed strictly as a formal analytical and generative instrument, used to examine pattern, proportion, ensemble behavior, and long form balance. All aesthetic decisions remain subordinate to human judgment, historical awareness, and compositional intent. The result is framed as an archival artifact, aligned with early 1960s European jazz concerns of clarity, restraint, and argument, rather than a literal studio session or contemporary production.

Tracklist

Glass Allocation

Deferred Assembly

Interior Margin

Unfiled Diagram

Static Allowance

Partial Span

Held Without Comment

Narrow Interval Room

Misaligned Draft

Secondary Exposure

Fixed Weight Surface

Residual Motion

Closed Reference

Counterbalance Study

Temporary Bearing

Latent Frame

Measured Absence

Structural Delay

Offset Condition

Unmarked Passage

Incomplete Transfer

Retained Pressure

Formal Drift

Stabilized Error

Final Adjustment

Conceptual Ensemble
piano
tenor saxophone
trumpet
double bass
drums

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