Artwork and cover design: Rudolf Crivici.
The Elektra String Quartet, one of Australia’s leading electro-acoustic ensembles present a selection of powerful works specifically commissioned for Elektra’s unique sound and approach to music-making, from some of Australia’s most happening, funky and very living composers.
These works represent something of the unique working relationships that developed over time between a jazz, techno and ambient- based, technology driven ensemble, and a number of composers [straining at the leash,] seeking to give voice to some of their less culturally permissible primal urges, such as driving rhythms (sex), over-the-top amplification (sex), groove based writing (oh yes, sex!), and greater degrees of freedom than would normally be possible within the classically oriented string quartet. (Excerpt from program notes of a concert given in 2003).
Elektra: Chris Latham, the brothers Crivici and Sally Maer (cello), with guest artist Margery Smith (soprano sax and bass clarinet)
| Track | Name & description | Movement | Time |
| 1 | High Tension Wires (Nigel Westlake) |
One | 4:56 |
| 2 | “ | Two | 1:12 |
| 3 | “ | Three | 4:25 |
| 4 | “ | Four | 4:05 |
| 5 | Chorale and Ecstatic Dance (Ross Edwards) |
Chorale | 6:20 |
| 6 | “ | Ecstatic Dance | 4:15 |
| 7 | Phospherics (Paul Stanhope) sax, violin and viola | One | 4:08 |
| 8 | “ | Two & Three | 4:10 |
| 9 | Techno-Logic 1 3 5 (Mathew Hindson) | Adagio rubato | 3:50 |
| 10 | “ | Poco Allegro | 3:55 |
| 11 | “ | Cantabile | 5:23 |
| 12 | Mantra (Romano Crivici) bass clarinet and string quartet | Intro (Allegro, Adagio) | 2:29 |
| 13 |
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Allegro hypno | 7:43 |
| 14 | “ | Adagio, tempo rubato | 4:40 |
| 15 | “ | A different sense of Time | 8:48 |
| Total playing time [approx] | 71:34 |
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