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]. Following the release of the fragmentation cd on Malignant records in 1996, Orphx began to fuse the harsh textures and experimental techniques of earlier work with hypnotic drones and rhythms generated by modified consumer electronics and primitive feedback systems [1998-1999]. 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.