Radical Danish/Faroese artist, musician, storyteller and composer Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester - aka Goodiepal - returns to OTO for another night of the hypnotic and unexpected. With a performance style as enthralling as it is unclassifiable, Goodiepal draws on electronic music, computer technology, spoken word and broader cultural theory. Utterly unique. Goodiepal will perform work from two new releases on Fonal Records and Editions Mego.



GOODIEPAL

Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a controversial Danish/Faroese musician/composer. The eccentric and self-made Goodiepal has influenced the course of modern music through radical excursions into computer technology and media art. Until recently he has been employed as a teacher at DIEM (Danish Institute for Electro-acoustic Music) at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. Goodiepal declared intellectual war against the stupidity in modern computer music and media art, which is to say against The Royal Academy of Music, when he quit the job in 2008. As per 2012 he lives somewhere in Europe and is married to the road.

Goodiepal @ The Woodmill GP from The Woodmill GP on Vimeo.

"[His] utterly transfixing homemade musical contraptions and decidedly eccentric set-up, featuring a table filled with strange models of planets and a glass-caged metallic bird, had the whole audience rapt, not knowing whether to laugh or cry at the unconventional beauty of his astonishing performance." - Susanna Glaser, THE WIRE

"Goodiepal ditched any musical intentions and went on a mad and sometimes hysterical ramble through his own realities. Euro drenched tales punctured by schizoid language skips, whistling origami constellations folding, private recollection and some wicked Nordic throat violence. The disturbing thing is that it all started to make perfect sense after a while, computers are bad for us, disappearing culture, the way we see the past in tidy approximation but always crave the future in abstracts. The stories the man had to tell were amusingly oblique and surreally dealt out in true comic fashion." - Rottenmeats live review

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