Oudemian

Audiovisual, Electroacoustics

“This exciting debut is rather avant-garde electronic and post-club than neoclassical and makes you hungry for more controlled and confusing complexity.”
Groove magazine

The EP of Mári Mákó, Oudemian, fuses introspective instrumental and vocal textures with live electronics. It is a sonic journey of finding inner strength through crisis, of overcoming existential angst and rebirth.
The title was invented as a combination of two-words: “Ouroboros” and “Demian.” Ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a snake biting its own tail representing the circle of life, and Hesse’s novel Demian depicts a young boy struggling to find his new self-knowledge and his place in an immoral world. As it happens, Oudemian also holds an actual meaning in ancient Greek: “none.”
This album of experimental electronic music contrasts dark synthesizer drones, glitch, and beats with organic orchestrations of acoustic instruments and the emotive power of the human voice. It features Mako’s self-designed and programmed electronic instrument called the Schmitt, which works with chaotic sound processes influenced by accelerometer and light sensors. Its constantly changing timbre channels life’s uncertainty as it cuts through and fragments the flow and equilibrium of -string arrangements and distant voices singing mantras. As the album progresses, these elements converge over deep empowering beats that carry through a message of purpose.

Credits
Concept, compostion, music production: Mári Mákó
Album cover: Oddkin
Saxophone on ‘Waves’ by Laura Agnusdei
Double bass on ‘Bell’, ‘Shedding’ and ‘Homecoming’ by Julian Sarmiento
Violin on ‘Bell’, ‘Oudemian’ and ‘Homecoming’ by Matthea de Muynck
Vocals on ‘Homecoming’ by Sarah Albu
Trumpet on ‘Shedding’ by Miklós Mákó

The album is supported by Fondspodium Kunsten and won the Sena Music Production Fund.

https://marimako.bandcamp.com/album/oudemian

https://www.szofa.eu/iras/szigethy-rebeka-sara-a-krizis-anatomiaja-mako-mari-oudemian-cimu-lemezerol

https://worm.org/2022/04/13/oudemian-a-mari-mako-concert/