Salt Flats Commission - Time Kept Sideways - Red Note Jazz

Time Kept Sideways presents a single extended argument rather than a sequence of discrete pieces. The record is conceived as a balanced field where material is placed, withdrawn, and reintroduced with deliberation. Density and sparseness are treated as equal forces, allowing tension to arise from proportion rather than emphasis. Lines move laterally, intersecting without hierarchy, creating a sense of suspended motion and careful alignment.

This work is a conceptual ensemble recording shaped through human artistic direction with artificial intelligence employed strictly as a formal analytical and generative instrument. Artificial intelligence is used to examine pattern, proportion, ensemble behavior, and long form balance, remaining subordinate to historical awareness, editorial judgment, and aesthetic intent. The result is not a document of performance but a constructed artifact, framed as a period oriented study in collective restraint, interaction, and structural clarity, presented with the seriousness of an archival object rather than a literal session.

Tracklist

Lateral Datum

Chalk Horizon

Instrument Walk

Pale Coordinate

Oblique Register

Fixed Sky Reading

White Field Margin

Apparatus Drift

Silent Calibration

Long Sightline

Parallel Attention

Residual Marking

Field Without Center

Directional Pause

Surveyed Distance

Blank Reference

Offset Alignment

Faded Index

Continuous Plane

Observed Span

Weightless Scale

Horizontal Tension

Open Measure Line

Deferred Bearing

Final Orientation


Conceptual Ensemble
Piano
Tenor Saxophone
Trumpet
Double Bass
Drums



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