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Circuitbreaking
Orphx →8,183 listeners77,509 plays
rhythmic noiseindustrialkrankstep77davez-all-trackspsychedelic
about this album
A ph.d. candidate in environmental politics at toronto’s york university, rich oddie revels in the interplay between politics, theory, and music, and plies all three into the fabric of his new album for hymen, circuitbreaking. “This definitely informs my music,” explains oddie, who has been recording as orphx both in collaboration and solo since the early 1990s, moving from the rhythmic industrial noise of fragmentation (1996) to the minimal techno-industrial hybrid of nullty and vita mediativa (1998) to the electro-acoustic experimentation of 2001’s the living tissue. “circuitbreaking was inspired,” continues oddie, “by learning more about how different groups around the world are trying to address the negative impacts of economic globalization. there are samples here and there from protests, speeches, and films that touch on this theme, but i wanted this to be subtle, rather than overpowering the music with an explicit political message. hopefully, the music works on its own.” and indeed it does - so well, in fact, that hymen will release two versions of circuitbreaking. the full-length cd will include 10 tracks, where the arrangement consists of thematic, melody-driven pieces punctuated by precision experimental electronics that range in timbre from the textural calamities of Akira Rabelais and autopoieses’ noise patterns to the tone-pulse configurations of ryoji ikeda and carsten nicolai’s microtonal minimalism. Titled “circuit I-V,” these almost interstitial pieces buff
