Eugene Carchesio: Circle Music II (Room40, 2013) + Concert For One Person In A Small Room (Room40, 2013)
August 4, 2013 at 9:59 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Eugene Carchesio: Circle Music II
Room40 has released a few recordings by Australian composer Eugene Carchesio in the past year, including 2 volumes of
Circle Music. These albums consist of blippy, bubbly repetitive computer compositions which definitely have a circular feel to them. On
Circle Music II, they have an almost motorik pulse to them, and a definite rhythmic drive, sometimes resembling minimal techno like Plastikman. The tracks have no titles (other than letters) and they do sometimes tend to feel like variations of each other. “B” is a short pulse which is quickly reprised and added to in “C”. “D” is nervous and jittery, almost approaching Mark Fell territory, and has slivers of hi-hats. A few other tracks could have been made from drum machines that Krautrock artists like Cluster might have used.
Eugene Carchesio: Concert For One Person In A Small Room
seems to break things up a bit. The pieces tend to be way shorter than the longest tracks on the
Circle Music albums (no titles here, but there’s 24 tracks, most of which are about a minute or 2) and some of them seem more rhythmic and beat-driven, but they also seem more warped and obtuse. 3 almost has some sort of warped 2-step beat, you could actually mix it in with a Burial track or something. A few tracks have more Autechre/Schematic-ish IDM moments. 8 even has a wet, chattery techno beat. And then there’s tracks like 13 which might as well just be an amplified recording of a shower dripping. Some of it’s a little more straightforward, and some of it sounds like the artist might just be losing his mind. Or at least, his machines would be losing their minds, if they had minds to begin with. Perplexing but mostly pretty fun.
The Answer Is In The Beat 
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