Peter Orins

Peter Orins – Vrtn & Vbrtn (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 50:16 minutes | 873 MB | Genre: Classical
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Continuing his solitary explorations, Peter Orins used an impeded year to initiate two distinct developments that enrich his approach to the drum solo. The piece VRTN is a variation, or an extension, of the piece Happened By Accident, the subject of the eponymous album released in 2019 (Circum-Disc – LX014). It takes up the use of the drums as a resonator of various objects, wood, metal, glass, and the preponderance of the unexpected, by introducing accidents and interactions. The musician adds electronic treatment, which we find in his first record (Empty Orchestras – 2013), produced by Pure Data software: a device, designed in collaboration with Antoine Rousseau, autonomous enough to influence him in an unpredictable way. The electronics, in addition to more randomness and confusion on the sources of the timbres, causes a magnifying effect on the “microscopic” sounds, and plays with the resonances and vibrations by adding strange harmonic progressions.
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Peter Orins – Empty Orchestras (2014/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 36:19 minutes | 366 MB | Genre: Classical
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Peter Orins project could be called an accompanied solo. The drummer has designed an electronic device autonomous enough to influence him in his play in an almost unpredictable way. Therefore a kind of dialogue is established between the musician and the electronics where the usual roles are reversed: the drummer offers an insistent and repetitive form, transformations and random treatments performed live cause the disorder conducive to improvisation. Magnified timbres or on the contrary disturbed rhythmic progressions cause welcome accidents or extend the resonances of the instrument. In this game between natural timbres of cymbals and skins and amplified deformations of the electronics, Peter Orins seeks vibration and saturation to produce a music made of extreme and powerful rhythms and sound textures.
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Peter Orins – Happened by Accident (2019/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:50 minutes | 749 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Atypeek Diffusion – Circum-Disc

After experimenting with randomness and electronic transformation (see Empty Orchestras – 2014), Peter Orins returns this time with his only drum set, and some objects, bowls, wood, shells… As an improviser, he is interested in sound textures, the ambiguity of timbres and their production, the saturation of sounds or the harmonics specific to each instrument: make it possible to hear both the “microscopic” noises of skins or metals rubbed, struck, prepared, at very low power, and the acoustic pressures felt at high volume.
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