Open Channel Quartet - Line Still Live - Red Note Jazz

Line Still Live is presented as a unified formal study rather than a document of performance. The recording functions as a controlled field in which balance, pressure, and release are examined across long durations. Each piece is shaped through deliberate limitation, allowing interaction to surface without excess or display. The ensemble operates as a single organism, maintaining clarity while sustaining tension across shifting densities. Silence and density are treated as equal forces, with motion arising through contact rather than assertion.

This work was created through human artistic direction supported by artificial intelligence used strictly as an analytical and generative instrument. Artificial intelligence served to examine proportion, pattern, ensemble behavior, and long form balance, always subordinate to human judgment, historical awareness, and aesthetic intent. The result is a historically framed document that treats sound as structure, and structure as a living system, aligned with early 1960s European jazz ideals of restraint, physicality, and collective responsibility.

Tracklist

Held Current

Open Circuit

Static Weight

Unanswered Line

Pressure Window

Narrow Field

Residual Motion

Closed Exchange

Fracture Point

Latent Force

Contact Without Reply

Surface Noise

Crossing Threshold

Displaced Center

Waiting Channel

Internal Drift

Load Bearing

Interrupted Flow

Fixed Horizon

Peripheral Focus

Narrow Passage

Accumulated Pressure

Held Transmission

Delayed Response

Continuous Tension

Conceptual Ensemble
jazz piano
jazz tenor saxophone
jazz double bass
jazz drums

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