In November, Oneohtrix Point Never (aka Daniel Lopatin) announced his plans for a new live show and art installation called MYRIAD. Today we finally have a glimpse at the harpsichord-heavy music that Lopatin will debut at the show with a brand new trailer, above.
The video is by Daniel Swan and David Rudnick, and directed by Lopatin. It features animation by Swan and additional animation by Nate Boyce. It’s a dense, dizzying spectacle set in the cosmos and features a blizzard of familiar images stripped from pop culture and everyday life darting across the screen.
Based on the trailer, the show seems to focus on four separate parts: Age of Ecco, Age of Harvest, Age of Excess and Age of Bondage. The trailer also contains dedications in memory of “Gargantua” and “Pantagruel,” two titular giant characters from a five-part satirical literary work written by French Renaissance writer François Rabelais.
Lopatin will be bringing the world premiere of the so-called “concertscape” installation to Red Bull Music Festival New York this coming May at the Park Avenue Armoury.
Further description of the event on the Park Avenue Armoury website says:
“Pulling from long-standing fascinations with film and television tropes, abstract sculpture, game ephemera, poetry, apocryphic histories, internet esoterica, and philosophies of being, MYRIAD generates a conceptual spectrum that is as much a speculation on the unthinkable future as it is an allegory for the current disquiet of a civilization out of balance with its environment. Oriented around behaviorally choreographed set pieces and lighting, the theatrical installation takes a directly formal approach to themes latent in his work by placing the audience inside the architecture of the music itself. Using the scale of the Wade Thompson Drill Hall to explore disorienting relationships between space and sound, MYRIAD mutates forms of live musical performance.”
This year’s Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York also features the launch of Fever Ray’s North American tour, industrial pioneer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, John Maus, and serpentwithfeet. MYRIAD debuts May 22nd-24th at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory as part of Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York 2018. Tickets are available here.
