Muzycy:
Gregor Kitziz, David Soldier, Wendy Ultan - violin
Ron Lawrence - viola
Michelle Kinney, Margaret Parkins, Mary Wooten - cello
Lindsey Horner - Contrabass
Joseph Trump - drums, percussion
Elliott Sharp - doubleneck guitarbass

Elliott Sharp:

...ABSTRACT REPRESSIONISM: 1990-1999 is the latest in a series of long-form pieces for larger versions of CARBON. These include LARYNX, SILI/CONTEMP/TATION, SELF-SQUARED DRAGON, REDRUM and SERRATE. They share various attributes within the continuity of "ir/rational music": core materials are ordered in time and manipulated by the musicians using algorithms defined for each composition. The core materials may be mathematical, rhythmic, melodic, timbral, or harmonic; the algorithms of use range from specific instructions to more general operational approaches...

..."Ir/rational music" is a useful pun to describe what I try to manifest in these compositions. "Ir" represents acoustic phenomena and how we peceive them; "rational" is that which is structure and order (whether real, unreal, surreal or superreal); overall is the "ir/rational" containing all of the other parts and binding them with intuition, chaos and the tangential. The title is journalistic although the music is not programmatic. Elements of control (government, police/military, religion, the aristocracy) continue to tighten up their absolute ability to shape what people think and do - not so much through overt means (although these are certainly being practiced) but by selecting against and undermining the ability of humans to process information and abstractify.
This we must battle...

Elliott Sharp:

...ABSTRACT REPRESSIONISM: 1990-1999 is the latest in a series of long-form pieces for larger versions of CARBON. These include LARYNX, SILI/CONTEMP/TATION, SELF-SQUARED DRAGON, REDRUM and SERRATE. They share various attributes within the continuity of "ir/rational music": core materials are ordered in time and manipulated by the musicians using algorithms defined for each composition. The core materials may be mathematical, rhythmic, melodic, timbral, or harmonic; the algorithms of use range from specific instructions to more general operational approaches...

..."Ir/rational music" is a useful pun to describe what I try to manifest in these compositions. "Ir" represents acoustic phenomena and how we peceive them; "rational" is that which is structure and order (whether real, unreal, surreal or superreal); overall is the "ir/rational" containing all of the other parts and binding them with intuition, chaos and the tangential. The title is journalistic although the music is not programmatic. Elements of control (government, police/military, religion, the aristocracy) continue to tighten up their absolute ability to shape what people think and do - not so much through overt means (although these are certainly being practiced) but by selecting against and undermining the ability of humans to process information and abstractify.
This we must battle...