Useful Emergency - Les Jours Sans Centre - Red Note Soul

Les Jours Sans Centre presents a unified ensemble study shaped around imbalance, suspension, and deliberate refusal of symmetry. The album is conceived as a single formal object rather than a collection of discrete pieces, with each movement contributing to a broader investigation of proportion and internal tension. Decisions of density, register, and spacing are treated as compositional material, allowing the ensemble to function as a living structure rather than a platform for display.

This 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 judgment, historical framing, and structural intent remain subordinate to human direction. The result is an archival document that situates itself within a European jazz lineage of restraint and inquiry, privileging interaction, friction, and unresolved balance over resolution or spectacle.

Tracklist

Matin Sans Axe

Surface Inclinée

Chambre Désaxée

Temps Retenu

Ligne Instable

Passage Latéral

Ombre Fixe

Salle Vide

Angle Perdu

Déplacement Lent

Centre Refusé

Mur Intérieur

Équilibre Fragile

Point Aveugle

Tension Continue

Forme Brisée

Dérive Calme

Plan Inégal

Distance Courte

Silence Suspendu

Appui Fuyant

Voisinage Étroit

Masse Claire

Retrait Progressif

Fin Ouverte


Conceptual Ensemble
Tenor saxophone
Trumpet
Piano
Double bass
Drums



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