When was the last time you sat and listened to a whole album with the earphones on from start to finish?
Do you stop and watch a video installation in an exhibition until its end?
Do you really pay more than a 4 minutes attention span to some longer YouTube videos that somehow get posted to your e-mail, social network or simply floating over the internet?
ODDSAC forced a packed Smart Project Space to stare for 54 minutes to a perfectly matched combination of the three.
It is a Visual Album in the most complete sense. The music composed and played by Animal Collective has been created and tailored in order to fit the images and not the other way around, unlike most music videos or concert movies, so that separating the two would not make any sense and therefore, it is remarkable that Avey Tare has made clear that no audio-only album release will come out of it.
ODDSAC is the stuff of dreams or more so, nightmares. As Danny Perez himself has said, it’s the kind of nightmares that make your head spin so heavily with dark thoughts that you wake up in the morning feeling way more exhausted than the night before. Like a dream, you should not even try to find a plot. You can only add sense to all of the people appearing randomly, with faces that change, voices that say words you just cannot understand;
You close your eyes and vampires might come behind, playing drums, or tribal computer noises that seem coming from a black alley far away, until they start melting in an explosion of liquid colors in a lake lost in an unknown forest, right after a campfire where a happy group of kids and adults are roasting marshmallows that will soon be ready to take over and eat their bodies.
ODDSAC is after all, the original name of a brand of gummy bears.
For info on the next screenings and a trailer: oddsac.com / twitter.com/ODDSAC
Animal Collective: myspace.com/animalcollective
Danny Perez: diptriana.com
Smart Project Space: smartprojectspace.net / twitter.com/spsamsterdam
