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In the Fall of 2001, Rik began working on his with producer and engineer Doug Haire at Jack Straw Productions. These sessions centered around intertwining ambient electronic improvisation with a live jazz quintet featuring Rik, Dan Blunck, Tony Grasso, Reuben Radding and Randy Doak. The material began with numerous original jazz compositions that Rik had collected over the last few years. He then led the group through improvising around the compositions as opposed the playing just what was already written on the paper. The group recorded two full days of variations of the charts, deconstructing and reconstructing the tunes from every angle they could think of. In the Winter of 2001, Rik and Doug reconvened at Jack Straw to add the electronica element to these jazz quintet recordings. Rik had previously spent several months in his home studio creating guitar loops and digitally manipulated samples containing elements from the original sessions which the duo now layered with the session tracks, creating a quilted mosaic of sound still retaining the melodic and chordal movements of the original compositions. This compact disc (also containing one track featuring Jim Knodle, Fred Roth & Simon Grant) became "Isomorphism", Rik's second full-length solo release for HipSync Records. Isomorphism is a scientific term for the similarity in organisms of different ancestry that result from convergence. Rik felt he saw the same sort of convergence when he combined the attitudes of both electronic and jazz improvisation in this stunning recording.