Tincture for a Broken Protractor – Red Note Jazz

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Tincture for a Broken Protractor – Red Note Jazz

Tincture for a Broken Protractor – Red Note Jazz

Catalog Number
Catalog Pending
Release Date
March 11, 2026
Duration
1:52:27
View Count
190

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Album Description

This recording is presented as a unified conceptual document concerned with proportion, fracture, and the subtle instability that appears when formal systems are pushed beyond their intended limits. The ensemble operates less as a collection of voices than as a measured structure in which lines intersect, overlap, and gradually alter one another through pressure and restraint. Motifs recur as arcs rather than statements, suggesting an architecture whose balance depends on careful deviation rather than strict symmetry.

The work has been shaped through human artistic direction using artificial intelligence strictly as an analytical and generative instrument for examining pattern, proportion, ensemble behavior, and long form continuity. Within this framework, artificial intelligence functions as a formal tool rather than an author, subordinate to historical awareness, aesthetic judgment, and curatorial intent. The resulting document should be understood as a historically framed studio construct whose purpose is the study of collective musical geometry rather than the simulation of a conventional recording session.

Track Listing

Compass Fracture Diagram

Indigo Draft Convergence

Copper Radius Disturbance

Graphite Arc Residue

Pale Meridian Study

Tangent Drift Assembly

Brass Division Spiral

Survey Line Displacement

Vellum Angle Reflection

Draft Table Confluence

Oblique Circle Fracture

Cartesian Ink Bloom

Surveyor Spiral Return

Radius Pressure Diagram

Oxide Compass Reverie

Axis Distortion Tableau

Inked Quadrant Reflection

Draft Geometry Pulse

Copper Trace Divergence

Protractor Fault Sequence

Graphite Field Rotation

Meridian Drift Construction

Indigo Angle Passage

Tangent Study Continuum

Fractured Circle Codex

Personnel

Grand piano
Prepared piano
Double bass
Drum set
Bass clarinet
Contrabass flute
Vibraphone
Modular synthesizer
Baritone guitar
Harmonium
Frame drum
Glass harmonica