This recording was requested by the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis following Vultures Quartet's performance at the 2010 Spark Festival of new music. The university provided the performers with some unique on-site instrumentation, including access to a collection of vintage analogue synthesizers, orchestral instruments, and a bursary to purchase scrap metal to make new instruments. The group recorded over four hours of material in the University of Minnesota's Music Department studios. This release is taken from those recordings and marks the first time the group played together as a full quartet. "Sui Generis" ("of its own kind") reflects this new group with unique characteristics. 6-panel digipak.