Artist Detailed Info: Circ

There are 2 artists with this name:

1. CIRC is the electronic music project of French composer François Rousseau. For more than 25 years, he has explored the space between ambient, experimental electronic music and minimalist composition, creating instrumental pieces built from rich textures, subtle melodies and carefully shaped imperfections.

His music balances accessibility with experimentation. Rather than relying on complexity, CIRC develops slowly evolving sound worlds where a handful of carefully chosen elements interact, allowing listeners to project their own emotions and interpretations. Warmth, nostalgia, contemplation and quiet tension are recurring themes throughout his work.

Alongside his personal work, François Rousseau composes production music for film, television and advertising. His music has been released by major libraries including Sony / Extreme Music and Universal Production Music, and featured in productions for Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO, BBC, Arte, TF1, France Télévisions and many other international broadcasters and brands.

For CIRC, music is not intended to impose meaning, but to offer a space for listening, imagination and personal interpretation.

2. Circ are producer Alexander Perls (009 Sound System, Icebreaker International) and vocalist Madelin Lane (Madelin Zero). The two met at a Sonic Youth concert on The Bowery in New York City during the summer of 2001. Perls had been living in NYC since 1998, working for the American video artist Matthew Barney. Madelin had moved to NYC six months earlier, and was working for a midtown talent agent as a talent scout for the daytime soap operas. After some conversation, somehow it turned out that Perls was looking for a vocalist for a track he was producing and Madelin wanted to try some singing. He said he had a song called "Destroy She Said" which needed a vocalist. Perls and Madelin first recorded in Perls' basement studio in Chinatown, right near the East River in Lower Manhattan. The vocal tracks for "Destroy She Said" were all recorded during one very hot night during the summer of 2001, four months before the September 11th attacks. The lyrical reference to "the towers" is merely coincidental. Their debut album Love Electric was released in Germany in 2004. The duo disbanded shortly thereafter in 2005.

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