Oneohtrix Point Never with Freeka Tet
Daniel Lopatin, also known as OPN, combines dystopian electronic music and emotional ambient sounds with hypermodern sound research to create a unique sound.about
Daniel Lopatin is a Brooklyn-based musician, composer, and Mercury Prize nominated producer who records and performs as Oneohtrix Point Never. Daniel has released numerous critically acclaimed albums, including his tenth and latest LP, "Again," in October 2023 — his most expansive work to date.
Lopatin was the Musical Director for The Weeknd's 2021 Super Bowl Half-Time performance and that year also composed and performed the music for Chanel's Métiers d'art A/W show. In 2022, he produced Soccer Mommy's album, "Sometimes, Forever" and was an Executive Producer on The Weeknd's worldwide #1 charted album, "Dawn FM." He also performs on a majority of the songs on the album. He has collaborated with numerous artists including James Blake, Ishmael Butler, Charli XCX, Kelsey Lu, Iggy Pop, Rosalia and his production credits include The Weeknd, Anohni, FKA Twigs, David Byrne, Moses Sumney, Nine Inch Nails and MGMT.
His original film scores include Josh and Benny Safdie's Uncut Gems (2019), Good Time (2017) for which he received the Best Soundtrack Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and Ariel Kleiman's Partisan (2015). His other film work includes contributions to Rick Alverson's The Mountain (2019) and Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring (2013).
In 2018 he premiered a sold-out live multimedia concert MYRIAD composed from his album "Age Of" (Warp, 2018) for 3 nights at the Park Avenue Armory (New York) followed by sold-out performances at prestigious venues worldwide including The Barbican, London and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles. Lopatin has been commissioned and exhibited extensively including: Greene Naftali, New York (2021), Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019), The Park Avenue Armory, New York (2018), Frieze Projects New York (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); Holland Festival (2014); Tate Britain, London and MoMA PS1, New York (both 2013); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., and Saatchi & Saatchi, London (both 2012); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2011) among others.
In 2024, Oneohtrix Point Never will be presenting the highly anticipated live interpretation of Again in an extensive tour that spans Asia, Europe and the US, and includes the acclaimed multi-disciplinary artist, Freeka Tet on board as creative director.
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Daniel Lopatin has already left his mark on the present on multiple fronts: as a producer for The Weeknd, Anohni, and Charli xcx, as a film composer (Marty Supreme) and, above all, as Oneohtrix Point Never, one of the most influential projects in the field of advanced electronic music today. In this role, he is something of an audio archaeologist, digging through cultural artefacts such as commercials, preset libraries, and sample CDs – vestiges for new acoustic monuments. For Lopatin, it’s not so much about nostalgia but exploring how (the belief in) memory manifests in the digital realm. He now brings his album Tranquilizer to the stage, accompanied by Freeka Tet’s singular live visual aesthetic.