OTAS
OTAS' dreamy pieces of music slip quietly into the listener's consciousness. However, the underlying mood refuses to leave the listener undisturbed. A cello and a bass clarinet floating horizontally over a net of beats and synthetic sounds. The music is evocative, cinematic, horizontal, sparkling and unpredictable like a dream. In this meeting, a hybrid universe is created where classical instruments get new timbres and drum machines and samples become organic instruments. Each track is like a daydream that contains something recognizable that is shifted, stretched and emerges in a new context. Both the melodic material, rhythmically and in the instrumentation, the music has the feel of a dream sequence that constantly develops in new and exciting directions, rather smoothly than point by point.
OTAS consists of cellist Oda Dyrnes, saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild, trumpeter/electronic musician Tyge Jessen and percussionist and electronic musician Ander Bo Eriksen. All a...

OTAS
OTAS' dreamy pieces of music slip quietly into the listener's consciousness. However, the underlying mood refuses to leave the listener undisturbed. A cello and a bass clarinet floating horizontally over a net of beats and synthetic sounds. The music is evocative, cinematic, horizontal, sparkling and unpredictable like a dream. In this meeting, a hybrid universe is created where classical instruments get new timbres and drum machines and samples become organic instruments. Each track is like a daydream that contains something recognizable that is shifted, stretched and emerges in a new context. Both the melodic material, rhythmically and in the instrumentation, the music has the feel of a dream sequence that constantly develops in new and exciting directions, rather smoothly than point by point.
OTAS consists of cellist Oda Dyrnes, saxophonist Sven Dam Meinild, trumpeter/electronic musician Tyge Jessen and percussionist and electronic musician Ander Bo Eriksen. All are experienced forces within the Danish improvisation and jazz scene and also work in groups such as Damkapellet, Crush, Astrid Engberg, Guldimund, Sidechains, Ocean Fanfare and others.

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The animation is about our interaction with space, how we inhabit it and the energy associated with it. It is musically and visually based on the discovery of experiences through experimentation. The film doesn't follow a specific plot, but has leitmotifs that cross paths at various points. This duality based on repetition creates timelessness, the repetitive processes illustrate the constant building and dissolution of things. In my work, I cherish spontaneity and the possibilities of chance, therefore I thought it was important to use this work method as well. I use a type of spontaneity that I define as conscious instinct or directed spontaneity; that is, the beginning of the process is directed, but the path it travels and the end result no longer are. I created the music in a similar spirit - experimental & noise music elements can be heard in the recordings. I consider the opportunities offered by an interdisciplinary approach to be essential. I believe that there is free interchangeability and communication between genres. The sounds were recorded with a portable recorder, then I mixed and mastered it. I used guitar pedals to create feedback loops, an electric guitar and a violin modified by effect pedals, and analog instruments like cymbals and objects played with a violin bow.

Created by Marcell Mostoha
03'42'' | Colour | Drawing
2021 | Hungary


Claudia Munksgaard-Palmqvist (1992) is a Danish experimental filmmaker and animator. Through her work as a film director, film festival programmer, film operator, co-founder of a non-profit cinema and educator, she wants to make experimental film more accessible to a wider audience and start conversations about how we see experimental films....

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