A computer musician since the early 90s performing under the name Oval, Popp was influential in so-called glitch with releases on Thrill Jockey and Mille Plateaux. Originally a three-piece, Oval disdained conventional electronic instruments – their early albums were composed through the creative abuse of compact disc players. Markus Popp returned with a new Oval album, O, in 2010.
 
"Markus Popp's sound nuggets which form the sonic underpinning for Masako Tanaka's video personifications stem from Markus's Oval Commers audio file archives from the early 2000s era … On the hard drive of his Powerbook, Popp had created an archive consisting of tens of thousands of tiny sound fragments which Tanaka dipped into a smaller portion of to re-compile from to utilize a longer reoccurring & evolving musical soundtrack." (RML)
 
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