Word: popp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oval is one Markus Popp, a German-born artist. Dok, a collaboration with Japanese musician Christophe Charles, is the band's fourth album. Oval's artistic medium is the compact disc itself--Popp evidently takes CDs, scratches them, samples the resultant skipping and manipulates the recordings into musical works. With Dok, Oval samples the results of a project by Charles in which he recorded bells from around the world. Popp subscribes to the social theories of the late Gilles Deleuze and Feliz Guattari and makes his art according to their ideas of rhizomes and machines. His constructions are rhizomatic: they...
...ears. The distinctive clicking of the skipping CDs provides a percussive element, and various other layers of sound are layered above this to create reasonably cohesive compositions. The end result, though, isn't terribly exciting on first listen. Repeated listenings (Dok must be actively listened to) yield more; Popp's subtlety emerges. If you're willing to put the time into it, Dok is an interesting record; it's not, however, one for dilentantes...