Chaos Shrine

Duality describes humanity's usual condition. All phenomena must be paired, as thesenses are only equipped to perceive differences.- Peter J. Carroll, Liber Null

Duality, along with many of the other fundamentals of chaos magic, is a central conceptof Chaos Shrine. Chaos Shrine is Paul Beauchamp and Andrea Cauduro. As a duo their music evolves and devolves in intricate sonic rituals carried out in the studio where the two artists seamlessly change and interchange roles mid-stream, moving effortlessly from composer to musician to engineer to producer, in many cases without a word being said between the two. Often one will be at the studio controls or working with an instrument but will suddenly step back and the other will instinctively move in and take over. This process will go on for minutes or even hours until a moment is reached when one will look at the other who will respond with little more than a silent nod at which point the two will move on in unison to the next element of the composition or the next piece.

In terms of genre Chaos Shrine is, due to its very nature, obviously difficult to assign to just one or even multiple tags. Elements of ambient, dub, industrial, electronic… even jazz can be found in their music. All of it deftly curated within the realm of “experimental” for which the two are both renowned in the international independent music scene. Its style draws directly on the vast experience of the two musicians; the years of work by Beauchamp as a sound artist and studio engineer as well as a long time ambient musician, the vast experience of Cauduro as a composer and experimental guitarist.