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It’s fun? Perhaps I’ll grow tired of being… interrupted?… in this way after a while, but not yet. The most famous person who appears regularly is Terry Riley, I guess, and there’s a lot of… eh… spiritual? music? Gongs and stuff? So kinda new agey? It’s a bit hippyish, which shouldn’t be surprising.īut like tonight, Elizabeth King suddenly started singing while I was here on the couch, minding my own business: There’s not much bass, but then again, they aren’t doing any dance music. I think the Oda people have come up with a very interesting approach to getting an alternative way to experience music making it less … industrial? again.īut what about the audio quality? It’s fine. The speakers stream via wifi, and there’s no audio out on them, so you can’t even record the music if you wanted.īut there’s obviously been some pushback to the sheer impracticality of the concept - Oda recently announced that they’ll be making it possible for people that own the speakers to stream the concerts via other gadgets, too. The Oda broadcasts limit themselves naturally to a very select number of people (since you have to have the physical speakers), and in a way that feels like a … new way to have a local radio station? So it’s intimate? And immediate? Because you can’t listen to these concerts later: Once it’s over it’s over. But I like that somebody’s thinking about new ways to connect musicians and audiences. I kinda like the way they magically just switch themselves on? But you can set a “Do Not Disturb” time period. When there’s nobody playing, you can stream nature sounds from Kaaterskill Farm (and some other places - it changes once in a while).ĭid I mention that the speakers switch themselves on by themselves? They do. So this is what they look like… The speakers are very light, but with the metal plates they’re very stable.

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So much plastic packaging! Two full bags! That’s not very hipster! Comprised of two wood-paneled speakers, a controller and a membership plan, the system relays live. Apparently hand-crafted by hipsters in Brooklyn. Oda was born from the desire to bring live musical performances home. What… Oh! Steel stabilising magnetically attached thingies. And there’s a long waiting list.īut I used a US forwarding service! I haxored it! And I finally got my speakers the other month…

It sounded like such a strange concept that I had to have a couple.

There’s just the speakers that suddenly switch themselves on, automatically, when there’s a concert. The ODAs Education Advisory Committee scouts other major dental conferences in North America annually to ensure we bring speakers to Toronto who will. There’s no social dimension, and there’s no video.

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They do have a line in, so you can plug something else into them, but they don’t do bluetooth or anything. Masaki Oda is a Professor of Applied Linguistics at Tamagawa University in Tokyo. You can only listen to these concerts on these speakers, and the speakers don’t really do much else.

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The concept is pretty odd: You buy these speakers, and then you buy a subscription to a series of concerts. If you truly listen, everything will be fine.All the intertubes were atwitter about the Oda Speakers last year. And our secret mission is to make you listen carefully. We’re just trying to build something positive. Artists are increasingly subjected to unfavorable terms, yet they continue to give us music of life-affirming quality. “We believe all of us should be doing our part to preserve the cultural value of music. “We made Oda because live music is a vital part of our lives,” Nick Dangerfield, co-founder of Oda, said in a statement. Find the lineup poster and a preview film for Oda below. Madlib, Arca, the Microphones, Jessica Pratt, Bradford Cox, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, KeiyaA, Standing on the Corner, Terry Riley, Ka Baird, Sarah Davachi, Don Bryant & Ann Peebles, DJ Python, and more are set to perform. Today, the company announced the artists set to perform in the coming months. ODA AS logo 22 Judy Bendit, RDH, BS Ashleigh Briody, DDS, MS Hayley Buckner, RDH, BS Paul Casamassimo, DDS, MS Central Ohio CPR Daniel Coleman, DMD, MS. Artist performances aren’t archived-they’re one-time live events accessible on the Oda speakers. Oda is a new company that sells home speakers which broadcast live concerts from a curated concert series.