Sunday 21 December 2014, 8pm
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. Presenting a special Jazz Night for this show, Goodiepal will be performing with Danish drummer Kresten Osgood. 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 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.
"[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
Kresten Osgood (born 1976) is a Danish jazz musician . He plays drums and has done so with several internationally famous musicians in as many constellations. He was born in West Jutland Lemvig and musically educated in Holstebro Music School conservatories education MGK from 1993 to 1996. Further Schooled he was in Copenhagen Rhythmic Conservatory from 1997 to 2002.
