Art Metropole

#03038

Orphx, Living Tissue Video

Artist

Richard Oddie

Price

$15.00

Date

2001

Publisher

Handspring Prod. and Dortmund

Format

Video

Details

CD, LP, Video

Orphx was formed in 1994 by Richard Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West to explore a shared interest in experimental music. Early recordings and live performances [1994-1995] utilized various scavenged and homemade instruments, creating confrontational audio/visual atmospheres that combined improvised rhythm and noise with images of social conflict, control and transgression. In 1996, Orphx (now a duo of Oddie and Sealey) began to work with more complex rhythmic structures, incorporating a greater variety of sound sources and developing original video compositions. A side project called Antiform was also created to explore drone-based atmospheres inspired by various forms of trance music [1996-1997]. A series of live performances in europe during 1998 and 2000 was followed by new releases that relied primarily on processed location recordings and found sounds [2000-2001]. The most recent work from Orphx combines this organic minimalism with the relentless rhythms and hypnotic patterns of earlier work, creating an organic/synthetic hybrid inspired by the early pioneers of musique concrete, dub, industrial, techno and electro. Moving unexpectedly between different genres and approaches, the recordings and performances of Orphx all retain a unique aesthetic of disorder, revolt and renewal: bursts of noise that obscure the dominant signal, other voices that refuse to be silenced, the Orphic dissent and return.