oli o matic on spotify.
"Oh my god. I can't believe it worked." |
| "I see you guys have met me. Not this me, the me from the future. I can hear the nerds protesting already, "DOESN'T THIS VIOLATE SOME KIND OF PARADOX?" Yes it does. We have about 30 minutes together before we both cease to exist." |
| "I've already died once, I'm not afraid anymore." |
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| "As the internet turns more and more into a gaping black hole with no end in sight, artists and innovators are finding new ways to tell impactful stories. Enter stage right- Oli O Matic. With her undying love for all things virtual, Oli integrates herself fully with the digital world by taking on the perspective of a sentient robot. Music is only a sliver of the puzzle, in fact she scatters the pieces all over the web waiting for devoted flies to piece them back together." |
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| “I’ve always admired good storytelling, the first time I played Portal I remember wanting to find out everything there was to know about it. Every time I looked there was more to see, my eleven year-old brain went into overdrive when I found something new.” |
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| "The particular type of storytelling Oli is referring to is what chronically online people call an “ARG”, an alternate reality game. The main principle of this genre is that the viewer discovers the plot themselves via a transmedia instead of having it spoonfed to them. This ultimately makes for a more fulfilling and satisfying experience. The music is only the start.
The type of music that Oli does make, however, is categorised as part of the Digital Fusion niche, a community of people defined by their love of video game music. The fanbase is small, a few thousand people banding together to enthuse about otherwise unnoticed projects."
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| “The first game I ever played was Sonic Advance on the GameBoy. My dad and I used to play it together before school. I don’t think I’d be who I am without him.” She hesitates for a minute, seeing in my eyes that I’m waiting for her to clarify, “Oh! My dad and Sonic. My dad is more important. Obviously.” |
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| "Her latest single “Marble Zone” takes direct inspiration, recontextualising a sample from the original Sonic soundtrack to form the basis of an entirely new song. Her lyrics speak of distant pining from a cold, shelved environment, unwilling to process hurt or emotions." |
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| ““I want to hide some emo influences in my music, I’ve always been a huge My Chemical Romance fan.” |
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| "I’d like to point out a discrepancy here, emo isn’t exactly hidden in Oli’s work. There’s an accessible angst in her writing which can be a bit on the nose at times, this could be to fit in with the persona of an unfeeling robot. As of now, there haven’t been any documented live performances of Oli’s material. She almost seems reluctant to show it to people in person, as if it would ruin some sort of magic no one else knows about." |
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| “Me and my team have thought about how it would work, I made a joke that I wanted randoms wearing lab coats to show up mid performance. I’m just not sure how performance would work logistically.” |
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| "To the public Oli’s work remains a mystery so far, only to be heard and experienced by her 37,000 TikTok followers." |
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