PETE MORAITES. “CINEMATHEMATICA.”
COMPACT DISC (Day
For Night)
Pete
Moraites is by nature a visual artist, and this shows
through in his musical atmospheres. From his background as writer, director,
illustrator, photographer and editor, Moraites leans every instrument
towards its most percussive qualities; emphasizing hammered guitar
strings, pizzicato trombones, tentative but mellifluous piano lines,
and the occasionally identifiable 4/4 rhythm pattern in an otherwise
odd-sox of tempos and time signatures. The impression is overall beguiling,
especially as he has only been creating music for just a year.
The forty-three exploratory works on “Cinemathematica”(Day 088) evolve through gentle melodic shifts
and drones amidst colliding rhythm programs and percussion centers, where experimental ambience reigns in a fourth-world kind of way. Tense and anxious, while alternately hypnotic and beautiful,
Cinemathematica elaborates upon the young artist's multimedia and film-scoring potential. Never lacking in gravitas, these abbreviated
compositions – many under two minutes – flow together or signal their editorial sea-change.
