Neil Ardley,
Ian Carr.
Warren Greveson
and John L. Walters.
Influences
Béla Bartók, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Michael Gibbs, Charles Ives, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Wayne Shorter, Igor Stravinsky, Joe Zawinul
the Zyklus musicians' own bands include EmCee Five, Rendell / Carr Quintet, New Jazz Orchestra and Nucleus (Carr), New Jazz Orchestra (Ardley) and Landscape (Walters)
Zyklus formed in 1987 to explore the use of new technology with jazz composition, systems music and improvisation.
From the liner notes to Virtual Realities (AMP, 1991):
'Zyklus creates a series of sound worlds that do not exist in a physical sense but are evolved by three of the performers using a vast range of electronic timbres. The sound worlds are assembled mainly by combining cycles of notes to form complex patterns of musical movement. The results are often lyrical, highly rhythmic, contrapuntally ingenious, harmonically daring and sumptuous in tone colour. This virtual music surrounds the fourth performer whose sound is physically real and who explores these musical incarnations, bringing an intense humanity to flesh out the music of Zyklus.
'Despite their intricacy, these are live interactive performances and not computerised studio constructions. This is due to the Zyklus MPS (Midi Performance System), an innovative British instrument which enables each electronic perforrmer to play several synthesizers and samplers simultaneously with complete control over all of them.'
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