" data-original-title="" title="">Elliott Sharp's Syzygy continues Sharp's explorations of spontaneous and improvisatory sound. He and his collaborators offer up studio versions of Syzygy on the first disc and live versions of the material on disc two. As much modern classical as abstract jazz, it is the musical textures and abstractions that give the album its dream-like eeriness.

The instrumentation offers a twist as well—eschewing drums, Sharp populates his music with computer devices, "objects," and the theremin, an instrument comprised of two metal antennas that allows the musician, in this case Gak Sato, to control the frequency and the volume of the sounds emitted. The result is a music that is a bit Outer Limits—as though one were listening in the vacuum of space.

According to Sharp, "Syzygy defines the temporal alignment of celestial bodies within a gravitational system at one cosmic moment...." Within this "gravitational system" the musicians contribute harmonic and rhythmic impulses that keeps the music shifting (and at times revolving and rolling), not unlike passing through chambers of doors that open and close again and again. Listening to