Alex Ookpik
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- 3 tracks (10:11)Music from various projects, competitions, and collaborations with which I've been involved, e.g.:
OraMIX (2012)
60x60 (2010)
Gamehedge (2009)
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Alex Ookpik is a Montréaler who writes, performs and produces avant-pop music, and now and then electroacoustic music, as well as music for theatre and film.love. loss. espresso. walking through the city. empty rooms at night. leaves and trees. synths. mallets. new instruments. first thought best thought. chance.Her music bridges the worlds of pop and experimental music; taking in acoustic instruments, synthesis, field recordings, and studio manipulations.
She was co-founder, co-songwriter, lead-singer and synth player of the Montreal post-rock band Marlowe; releasing two full-length records, and sharing the stage with Tindersticks, Snowpony (ex-My Bloody Valentine & Stereolab), April March, The Dears, Feist, and The Besnard Lakes.Her first solo album is forthcoming. You can preview tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik
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"the minimalist score...[is] likely...to facilitate moody existential musing."
- Best Bets, Eye Weekly, 2009
"...haunting..."
- Byron Laviolette, Eye Weekly, 2009
“hypnotic”
-- Jordan Zivitz, The Gazette, 2004
“the voice of a honey-fairy”
-- Olivier Robillard Laveaux, Voir, 2004
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- and finally.... a new little song bit I made... a musical setting of Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik/with-feathers
- and... another older demo sketch... of springtime lackadaisy.... http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik/incandescent-green-rough
- This is an older track that I made some years ago, based around a field recording I made walking down Duluth in Mtl. http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik/duluthdub
- hott :-) http://ow.ly/9hZCR
- Thanks so much! RT @translunarmusic: A new favorite: La nature ondulatoire de la lumière by @alexookpik http://t.co/1JBUdAay on #SoundCloud
- Well, my entry into the OraMIX competition had officially been accepted! It's a special remix competition based around the work of Daphne Oram, one of my biggest heroes. My piece is called "Your Birdsong Stays on My Mind". She seemed to rather like birds and her music and writing certainly has left an impression on me over the years. :-) Apparently people can vote for entries... so if you have a chance... the page is here, much obliged :-) : http://oramics.herokuapp.com/tracks/155
- A piece I made for the (UK) Science Museum's OraMIX competition. It was VERY VERY fun to be able to work with Daphne Oram's own samples, as well as the new ipod mini-version of her Oramics Machines. :-) http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik/your-birdsong-stays-on-my-mind
- Rad... Tips on programming beats and basic electronic music theory.
- A little BBC doc spot on the amazing electronic music pioneer, Daphne Oram and the Oramics machine that she designed that has recently been refurbished. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9671950.stm
- great learning resource on electronic circuit theory. :-)
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- Just wanted to say a massive THANK YOU to everyone for all your support of my music this year--it means so much. Happy 2012! :-)
- This is a piece of music I wrote for the theatre production of "Stranger" by Praxis Theatre--sort of the "love theme". http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik/marie-by-the-sea
- Thank you very much! (& for the others too) :-) RT @ylimalive: A new favorite: The City by @alexookpik on #SoundCloud http://ow.ly/82MyI
- Composer and electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel 's "Old Wave" is Today’s Track of the Day ...from 1980. I love and respect her work SO very much, such an inspiration as both a person and musician. http://www.wnur.org/?p=498
- I still adore this, even after all these years. So excited that I'll have a chance to see the Nutcracker performed this year. I wish I could sit in the orchestra pit beside the celestist. :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI8ReVfKJjM
- This is such a sweet story! A #SCstory by JulieWind about her love for the #SoundCloud community. She's right too! http://bit.ly/vq43YY
- Oh hey, my music was featured on this blog over the course of the past month. Radio Aphasia. http://ow.ly/7J9SD Much obliged. :-)
- An amazing musician... Darius Green... such beautiful music...
- What a relief for tired eyes and ears and brain. Eliane Radigue. Thanks to RT @mykolahaleta: @alexookpik http://youtube.com/watch?v=0kEIKK…
- NYTimes on women electronic musicians http://ow.ly/6TfQK Nice they wrote it & I <3 Reynolds, but this is not news & "emotion" is not gender.
- Kind of fun. My old band Marlowe name-dropped in an article about the beginnings of Pop Montreal. Cute/sweet http://ow.ly/6JhPp #popmontreal
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other projects
I've had the pleasure of working on and participating in a number of different projects, competitions and collaborations over the years. Here are some:
- My electroacoustic miniature, "Rust" was featured in the Vermillion mix of Vox Novus's 60x60 and was presented in Montreal, NYC (ICMC 2010), Berlin, and Italy.
- I created the original score and sound design for Praxis Theatre's 2009 "Stranger"-- a stage adaptation of Camus’s “The Outsider”.
- I had music featured in the short films “Stand Sentry” and “The Independents”.
- I took part in the Daphne Oram tribute competition OraMIX (2012), as well as the collective project Gamehenge (2009).
Some of the music from the above projects can be found here:
http://soundcloud.com/alexookpik/sets/special-projects-1/
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