Recording under the name Ótal the work of Óskar Arngrímsson feels more measured than most modular synth realizations. Blurring the borders between collage, sculpture, abstraction and tonal representation he searches for a more radiant realm. Original, restlessly changing and charging, sounds float free of context or lineage - with meaning pointing in multiple directions. While rising electronic forms enthrall in a slowly revealing timbral bloom, oscillators take their turn advancing, stacking and receding. As enigmatic as the realm it is trying to depict such musical intentions do not merely hang in the air, inert. They sparkle, shine and gleam - moving as easily out through the cosmos as they do inward to the recesses of the human spirit.
