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Odd Beholder is the electro/wave/indie pop project of Swiss musician, producer and activist Daniela Weinmann, with which she precisely and laconically chronicles the oddities, dark sides and misunderstandings of our time.
In her songs, Weinmann tells of alienation and escapism, of emancipation and the vision of a possible better world. Her version of dark pop music deals with unpleasant facts while offering comfort at the same time. And she does so in a way that is never tedious, exhausting or didactic, but rather makes the tedious and exhausting aspects poetically tangible.
Odd Beholder’s music is cinematic; for Weinmann visual expression is an essential component. The video clip for the single “Landscape Escape”, shot by Berlin filmmakers Grambow & Kirchknopf in Azerbaijan in cooperation with the Azerbaijan Social & Modern Dance Association, won the jury prize of the “Best Swiss Video Clip”-Awards 2017. In 2019 Weinmann is shooting with performance artist Ernestyna Orlowska and interdisciplinary Belgian-Swiss dancer and choreographer Annalena Fröhlich. Conversely, music from Odd Beholder’s songs is often used in films. The song “Landscape Escape” for example is central to the film “Mario” by Marcel Gisler, which deals with the complicated handling of homosexuality in the world of soccer.
Weinmann is co-founder of Music Declares Emergency Switzerland, a politically independent initiative of artists and people working in the music industry, which advocates for climate protection on an industry-specific basis and develops responses to the climate emergency. In 2023 Weinmann is directing a documentary film that examines the sense and nonsense of various sustainability measures taken by Swiss festivals.
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