Oval (musical project)
Oval is the name of a German electronic music project.
Founded in 1991 as a band, consisting of Markus Popp, Sebastian Oschatz and Frank Metzger, the band broke up in 1996 in strife and became a solo project by Markus Popp ( born February 24, 1968 in Darmstadt, Germany, now living in Berlin and working). Popp also published in collaboration with Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars under the name Microstoria, and in 2003 together with Eriko Toyada as Sun
Trademarks of Oval was the renunciation of instruments classic style and the exclusive use of specific samples of CDs that they brought ( for example, by painting with markers ) for " stuttering ", "hanging" and jumping over each other and often mixed. The so-obtained distinctive, rhythmic and orchestral sound at the same time became the trademark of the band and made it through their production methods to pioneers of glitch. Popp said in interviews that he understood oval less than music for an acoustic style.
Various Oval demo tapes, such as " azimuth " and " Color" (1991-1992), lists among other things, Holger Lindmüller, Sven Bergmann, Martin Conrads, Oliver Leistert, Lars Broszat, Markus Arndt and Wiebke Grösch as other contributors on. Ovals first release " Wohnton " appeared in the above-mentioned three - Cast 1993 at the Düsseldorf label " Ata Tak ". In contrast to all subsequent releases was a majority of the pieces on " Wohnton " with songs with German lyrics.
In 1993, she also developed the so-called " Wohnton " sound installation that consisted of 8 modules with a total of 128 speakers, which were controlled by an eight -track recorder. For this installation approximately 20-minute instrumental versions were of several pieces of " Wohnton " ("Everything in thought " and " cardamom " "Hello there," ) created. The installation version of " Cardamom " appeared in 1995 in a revised form under the title " DoWhile " on their third release " diskont94 ". In 1995, she began with the development of the installation concept toward an interactive software, which ultimately culminated in the so -called " Skotodesk ".
Frank Metzger took the name Oval temporarily also continues as an oval / Frank Metzger and published among others, Mego and the associated Netlabel false, and Beta Bodega, alku and tu'mp3. In 2003 he founded together with Emiliano Romanelli and Rossano Polidoro tu'm of the project Steno.
Sebastian Oschatz currently working digitally interiors vvvv among other things, the development of the graphical programming language as a designer in his company Meso.
2001 samplete the Icelandic musician Björk her piece " Aerodeck " for her album " Vespertine ." American director Harmony Korine used 1999 piece " Mediaton " in the soundtrack of his film " Julien Donkey Boy".
After a long break Markus Popp published in 2010 a number of new pieces. The production was completely different from earlier works. Popp used instead of self-programmed exclusively cheap, commercially available software and plug- ins. Instead of several high-end Apple computers he used a commercially available, four years old and 500 -dollar PC. First, Popp released the EP "Oh," and, as a free download that will "Ringtone EP". It is followed by the album " O ", released as Doppel-CD/-LP with 70 tracks. " 94 discount " was included in the list Wire The Wire 's " 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening ) ".
Discography (selection)
- " Wohnton ", 1993, Ata Tak
- " Systemic ", 1994, Mille Plateaux
- " 94 discount ", 1996, Mille Plateaux
- "Aero Deko Europe ", 1998, Form & Function
- " Doc " in 1998, Thrill Jockey
- "Scenario Disk ", 1999, Thrill Jockey
- " Oval Process ", 2000, Thrill Jockey
- " Pre / Commers ", 2000, Tokuma Japan Communications
- " Ovalcommers ", 2001, Thrill Jockey
- "Re: Systemic ", 2001, Form and Function ( was taken off the market shortly after the release due to legal issues )
- "Oh," 2010, Thrill Jockey
- "O", 2010, Thrill Jockey