Oneohtrix Point Never

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Oneohtrix Point Never alias Daniel Lopatin with the mask he usually wears when performing (2013)

Daniel Lopatin (born July 25, 1982 in Wayland ), known under his pseudonym Oneohtrix Point Never since 2007 , is an American experimental and electronic musician, composer and producer.

Life

Daniel Lopatin was born in Wayland , Massachusetts in 1982 , where he also grew up. He is the son of Russian-Jewish emigrants from the Soviet Union. His parents both have musical backgrounds. Some of his first experiments with electronic music were based on his father's collection of synchronized jazz fusion tapes and with the help of his Roland Juno-60 synthesizer, an instrument Lopatin has since used extensively in the studio and on stage. Lopatin attended Hampshire College in Massachusetts before moving to Brooklyn to complete his high school graduation from the Pratt Institute. During this time he became involved in the Brooklyn underground noise music scene.

Since the release of his debut album in 2007, Lopatin has performed under his pseudonym and stage name Oneohtrix Point Never. This was followed by the albums Zones Without People and Russian Mind in 2009. In the same year Lopatin published the audio-visual project Memory Vague, which also included his YouTube video nobody here . In 2010 he teamed up with his childhood friend Joel Ford and founded the Duo Games, which was later renamed Ford & Lopatin. Lopatin's next album, Replica , was released in 2011 on his newly formed Software Recording label. In 2012 Lopatin worked with Tim Hecker on the album Instrumental Tourist .

In 2013 Lopatin signed a contract with Warp Records . His label debut, R Plus Seven , was released on September 30, 2013. Lopatin worked with several artists on visual accompaniments, live performances and internet projects for the album, including fellow artist Nate Boyce, Jon Rafman, Takeshi Murata, Jacob Ciocci and John Michael Boling. Also in 2013 Lopatin composed his first film music for Sofia Coppola's film The Bling Ring together with Brian Reitzell . In 2013, Oneohtrix Point Never also attended the Warp-x-Tate event and was commissioned to create a piece inspired by Jeremy Deller's The History of the World .

In 2014 Lopatin supported the music project Nine Inch Nails as a replacement for Death Grips on their tour with Soundgarden . On October 4, 2014, Lopatin presented a live soundtrack for the world premiere of Koji Morimoto's 1995 animation film Magnetic Rose. The event took place at the Jodrell Bank Center for Astrophysics in Manchester, England. In the same year, Oneohtrix Point Never released improvisations for Record Store Day again, which included an interpretation of Witold Lutosławski's Preludes .

In November 2015 Lopatin released his second album Garden of Delete after an enigmatic advertising campaign on Warp Records and in the same year composed the music for the film Partisan by Ariel Kleiman . In autumn 2016, UCLA's Armand Hammer Museum of Art showed the film series Ecco: The Videos of Oneohtrix Point Never and Related Works , which was dedicated to the visual work of Lopatin and his colleagues. Lopatin worked with Iggy Pop on the soundtrack to brothers Benny and Josh Safdie's film Good Time , which was released in 2017 . He received the Soundtrack Award at the Cannes Film Festival for his work. The film's soundtrack was released by Warp Records in August 2017.

In June 2018 his album "Oneohtrix Point Never: Age Of" was released.

Filmography

Awards

Cannes International Film Festival

  • 2017 : Award for best film composer with the Soundtrack Award ( Good Time )

Hollywood Music in Media Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Oneohtrix Point Never In: laut.de. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Alum Musician Daniel Lopatin Interviewed in Vanity Fair In: hampshire.edu, 23 November 2015.
  3. ↑ Steffen Greiner: New album from Oneohtrix Point Never: Technology longs for stupidity . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 1, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 ( taz.de [accessed June 1, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Erik Anderson: 'The King', 'Marriage Story', 'Parasite' earn 2019 Hollywood Music in Media Awards nominations. In: awardswatch.com, November 4, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Oneohtrix Point Never
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lopatin, Daniel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American experimental musician and film composer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Wayland , Massachusetts, United States