New jazz where each musician in the group plays melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic material, either composed or improvised, within their own unrelated pulse.

The oximetric concept involves the execution of a largely unfamiliar performance practice within jazz ensemble music. The musicians, although playing at the same time, do not adhere to a common pulse, time signature, or groove. Each of the pulses are played with the goal to maintain a sense of the individual. There is no need for them to start or finish together. The pulses are not rhythmic subdivisions of each other or related mathematically. They are separate voices that create a synergy by being sounded together in the same sonic space, and sharing a common intent, or mood.

The oximetric concept incorporates archetypal rhythms that are expanded and compounded by each of the performers in the ensemble at their discretion. The rhythms are to be executed ‘phrasically’ - so that each melodic or rhythmic segment is not strict but flows and breathes as in our natural bodies. In this way, the composed forms that are the structural foundation of each of the compositions become fluid - arbitrary frameworks on which multiple unique performances can be built. The melodic and harmonic relationships that follow these forms echo what is already found in the music of the jazz canon, where interactions may be as consonant or dissonant as the individuals within the ensemble deems appropriate.

Konrad Park – drums

Hamish Houston – double bass

Damien Kingston – guitar

Spike Mason – saxophone and composer