Check out the full album on Bandcamp -  
https://oval.bandcamp.com/album/ovidono

Oval - Ovidono Album Preview

Oval 20-track quick intro showcase

Buy as CD/LP/digital!

Oval - Popp Album Preview

Check out the full EP on Bandcamp -
https://oval.bandcamp.com/album/eksploio

Official product page

Oval - Eksploio EP Preview

Check out the full album on Bandcamp - 
https://oval.bandcamp.com/album/scis

Official Product Page

Oval - Scis Album Preview

Oval - Voa - 02 - Stop Motion I (feat. Dandara) preview

Oval - Voa - 04 - Emocor (feat. Hana Kobayashi) preview

Check out the full album on Bandcamp 
https://oval.bandcamp.com/album/ovidono

Ovidono 30s Previews

Over Preview

Of Dreams Preview

Invisible Colors Preview

Feeling Preview

Fading Preview

Trailing Preview

As I Do Preview

Lost in Thought Preview

Dormant Preview

HYSTERESIS
Film by Robert Seidel
Score by OVAL
HD, Color, 5.1 Sound
D 2021, 5:05min

The experimental film "Hysteresis" explores the lag between recording analogue drawings and projecting them onto a queer performer’s choreography to create dense feedback loops. Using machine-learning to mediate these transformative re-presentations, the film intentionally corrupts strategies of the AI, unveiling a frenetic, delicate, flamboyant visual language of the hysteria and hysteresis in this historical moment.

TRAILER > http://vimeo.com/robertseidel/hysteresis

Film: https://www.robertseidel.com
Music: https://oval.bandcamp.com/
Performance: instagram.com/beyond_tsuki
Title Design: instagram.com/bureaunow
5.1 Master: instagram.com/davidkamp
Special thanks to Miriam Eichner, Carolin Israel, Falk Mueller and Paul Seidel
Funding: FFA Filmboard

Release Date: December 2021

HYSTERESIS OST by OVAL

The "Oval" side (side A) of the Oval-Liturgy limited edition split EP. 

Oval - Oval - Liturgy split limited edition EP  - 01 - Kreak

Oval - OvalDNA - 02 - Kasino 30s preview

Takako Minekawa - OvalDNA release countdown - 08 -  International Velvet (Remixed By Oval)

A daily countdown to the European release (25-11-2011) of the "OvalDNA" 2-disc album with one rare track from the Oval archives every day. Note: these tracks are web-exclusive bonus tracks and will *not* be featured on the OvalDNA album.  

Oval - OvalDNA release countdown - 04 - Raver Duo (live in Vancouver 10-2011)

Popp

Oval - sa Preview

Oval - ku Preview

Oval - re Preview

Oval - fu Preview

Oval - ai Preview

Thrill Jockey Thrill 12.44, released 06-2010

Oval - Oh EP preview - 02 - A2 - Hmmm preview

Thrill Jockey Thrill 244, released 09-2010

Oval - O CD2 preview - 01 - Citybike preview

Oval remix of WARREN SUICIDE's "Hello Mom", from their current album "World Warren III" (ShitKatapult STRIKE0132).  

Warren Suicide - Hello Mom (Oval Remix)

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. 

Oval - Ovalcommers - 01 - Untitled 01

Oval - Ovalcommers - 02 - Untitled 02

Oval - Ovalcommers - 03 - Untitled 03

Oval - Ovalcommers - 04 - Untitled 04

Oval - Ovalcommers - 07 - Untitled 07

Oval - Ovalcommers - 08 - Untitled 08

Oval - Ovalcommers - 12 - Untitled 12

Ovalprocess is a flowing, textured manuscript that utilizes sublime low end rhythm and directive pulsation in a manner that eases the listener into a soft and pillowy world dominated by electronic bleeps, glitches and moans.

Ovalprocess equally represents an innovative music software application, designed by Popp, as much as it serves as the core engine to an innovative Oval sound installation. The installation is centered around one or several publicly accessible sound terminals running the Ovalprocess application, rendering the exhibit a customizable, collaborative workspace.

Making the installation accessible in a public space is the ideal aesthetic that Popp craves-he feels it is far more effective than offering a cdrom or another option that would make the application available on a more individual basis. The Ovalprocess installation allows the public to use sounds that are found on the album to produce their own Oval-like music.

Oval - Ovalprocess - 02 - Untitled 02

Oval - Dok - 01 - Lens-Flared Capital

Oval - Dok - 04 - Bloc

Oval - Szenario (JP) - 05 - Par

Oval - Aero Deko - 01 - Episonik

Trailblazing glitch masterpieces (1990s), delicate, hyperreal, futuristic post-rock vignettes (after 2010) and now abstract club bangers with a twist - Oval continues to be a celebration of innovation, skill & sensibility. 

With an undeniable instinct for the pleasantly irritating, the drastic & the dreamy, M. Popp keeps on pushing the envelope. No one out there plays the computer quite like him.

Oval

Pinned to spotlight

Popular tracks