Sound design: Ovalprocess

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Markus Popp: Music as software. Genious.

born 1968, in Darmstadt (D); computer musician. Cofounder of the Laptop Scene founded in the mid-1990s, and mastermind of the so-called Glitch Style. Since the formation Microstoria (with Jan Werner from Mouse on Mars) and Oval (originally with Sebastian Oschatz, today working solo) Pop concentrates on digital, clicking and humming sounds, characteristic sounds the result of calculating mistakes or computer crashes, and he develops an original processing style for handling them, whose repetitive patterns convey depictions of the internal organizational mechanisms of digital systems. Pop sees concepts such as musical intuition and creativity in the Age of System Theory and Digital Calculating as obsolete. He also sees the musician as being the mediator of technological aesthetics; lives in Berlin.

The 6th full length release from markus popp (aka oval) finds this world renowned digital mastermind extending the concept & musical platform of last year's acclaimed ovalprocess in every way. exploring a spectrum of sounds between the abrasive sandblast of neo desktop rock (tracks 1-3) and the alienating, timeless splendor of dsp chamber music. in between there are unique excursions in folk electronica (track 4) and pop inflected wall-of-sound tunes that could only come from the mind of oval. popp describes ovalcommers as a 3d musical obstacle course, a friendly and accessible invitation to complexity. ovalcommers surprises with poetic and playful elements (organs and layers of guitar feedback), making room for understatement, sophistication and a new, almost absentmindedly casual atmosphere. haunting emulations of processed brass, string and woodwind sections are carefully added to the otherwise still angular desktop rock. listeners will leave ovalcommers with a new perspective on oval in general, as popp's strategy becomes clearly visible: a friendly, yet relentless fanaticism to experiment and innovate musically."

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