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Oneohtrix Point Never
Called the "black beast of contemporary electronics" by Rolling Stone magazine, Daniel Lopatin, aka Oneohtrix Point Never, arrives to Spoleto exclusively for Italy at Festival dei Due Mondi.
Born in 1982, among the most influential electronic musicians of our time, the US producer in ten years has built his reputation writing elegiac and otherworldly electronic compositions. to Brooklyn, in the epicenter of the U.S. independent scene, in just a few years he has become a cross-genre reference for many bands, not only in the electronic sphere. Aficionados of the genre will not miss his collaborations with names such as FKA Twigs, Caroline Polachek, Arca, Rosalía, Charli XCX, Anohni, Nine Inch Nails, filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie, and The Weeknd, with whom he worked on After Hours and Dawn FM, two of the best-selling pop albums of the decade, and for whom he was responsible for the musical direction of the Super Bowl 2021 half-time show.
Between ambient, noisemaking, and ecstasy-and a debt at least theoretically to Edgar Varèse-her music has a strong experimental edge that combines sounds of the past and present. It does so in a way that is at once familiar and chimerical, strange but laden with wonder; pop influences and heady rhythms make it always accessible; when it includes lyrics, they rarely have a confessional character but the disruptive force of fixing the tenuousness of our bonds.
"The quantum leaps of technology constantly confront us to with the gulf between what is real and what is less real." Oneohtrix Point Never speaks directly to this new feeling: the ease and euphoria of it, but also the hazy boredom of an ersatz, disembodied facsimile of life. Critic Simon Reynolds said of OPN: "It's hard to think to another contemporary musician who addresses the experience of hyper-modernity-living and dying on the Internet-with the same precision or compassion. Lopatin has found a way to make the fragmented experience of our current age not only beautiful, but true."
Again is his tenth record, the fourth in the new creative phase that in 2015 saw the release of Garden of Delete, which combines cultured electronica with industrial music and dirty, messy techno heard from Lopatin from as a teenager, and moves on from the subsequent Magic Oneohtrix Point Never and Age of. In Again he draws on the musical ferment of the 90s and 00s, between alternative rock and post-rock. These are not ghosts from the past, Lopatin turns his gaze to the future, mixing promise, hope and threat.
INFORMATION
Strobe lights will be used during the performance, which could disturb people with from epilepsy or photosensitivity.
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Please be advised that dates and times may be subject to change.
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Daniel Lopatin is a Brooklyn Mercury Prize-nominated musician, composer and producer who records and performs as Oneohtrix Point Never. He has released numerous critically acclaimed albums, including his tenth and final lP, Again, in October 2023-his most extensive work to date. Lopatin was music director for The Weeknd's Super Bowl halftime performance in 2021 and in the same year composed and performed the music for Chanel's Métiers D'art to/W fashion show. In 2022, he produced Soccer Mommy's album, Sometimes, forever, and was executive producer of The Weeknd's album Dawn FM, which reached #1 on the world charts. He also collaborated on most of the songs on the album. He has collaborated with numerous artists including James Blake, Ishmael Butler, Charli XCX, Kelsey Lu, Iggy Pop, and Rosàlia, and his production credits include The Weeknd, Anohni, Fka Twigs, David Byrne, Muses Sumney, Nine Inch Nails, and MGMT. His original soundtracks include Josh E Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems (2019), Good Time (2017), for which he received the Best Score award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and Ariel Kleiman's Partisan (2015). Other film work includes contributions to The Mountain (2019) by Rick Alverson and to The Bling Ring (2013) by Sofia Coppola.
In 2018 he premiered a sold-out multimedia live concert, Myriad, in which he performed his album Age Of (Warp, 2018) for three nights at the Park Avenue Armory (New York), followed by from sold-out performances at prestigious venues around the world, including the Barbican in London and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. Lopatin has been commissioned in prestigious venues including: Greene Naftali, New York (2021), Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019), The Park Avenue Armory, New York (2018), Frieze Projects New York (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Holland Festival (2014); Tate Britain, London and Moma Ps1, New York (both 2013); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C, and Saatchi & Saatchi, London (both 2012); and the Museum Of Modern Art, New York (2011). In 2024, Oneohtrix Point Never presents Again on a tour spanning Asia, Europe, and the United States, featuring acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Freeka Tet as creative director.
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