The Quark Model IR/CA

Interdisciplinary sound artists and educators Honey Haq Pazhutan and Max Pazhutan

Catalyzing digital compositions into sound and movement, The Quark Model synthesizes cerebral machine learning with deeply soulful minimal techno undercurrents. Digital techniques such as live coding and musical set theory form a cybernetic harmony with pulsating synthesizer throbs, layering unpredictably human influences overtop solid rhythmic structures. Honey Haq Pazhutan’s work as a sound artist, percussionist, vocalist and composer informs her relationship with technology, which she sees as a tool with the potential to manifest utopian futures. Likewise, Max Pazhutan juggles the roles of designer, instrumentalist, author and educator. Together, the two prolific producers create a blur of momentum—from the duo’s M P | v H+ Computational Sound Art Projects collaboration, which incorporates open source coding systems into self-developed synthesizers, to Twarc Pyroelectric, where hallucinatory sci-fi narratives echo overtop stratospheric electronic pulsations. As interdisciplinary scholars of digitally-crafted creativity, their work draws influence across worlds—from John Cage to Carl Jung, IDM to mediations on artificial intelligence. While The Quark Model is the couple’s most club-focused project, it doesn’t shy away from experimentalism, blending soaring harmonies and contemporary electro influences with a deep knowledge of structural design and an intent to move bodies in dimly-lit liminal spaces.