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.