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We can’t wait to continue to build this special brand and help people completely reimagine how they listen to music. In a world obsessed with the ability to have everything ‘on-demand’, along comes Oda with a truly fresh and, quite frankly, relieving live experience where the listener is required to just listen. Whilst, at the same time, retaining a certain degree of Oda’s mystery and charm. Like, the fact you might miss a performance, or that the amazing sound makes you feel spatially confused. In thinking through the approach for the launch films, here's what W+K creative directors Christen Brestrup and Bertie Scrase said, 'With the four launch films, we wanted to showcase some of the aspects around ‘live’ that make Oda such a unique product - things that other sound or music companies might not say. With seasonal programming from more than 20 artists per season, all Oda performances are a one-time unique live event, accessible only through the speakers. Oda will begin shipping to the United Kingdom this coming spring, and will expand from there.Oda consists of a set of home speakers that create an unique live music experience in your home. We are working hard to bring this to Canada as soon as possible. The Oda speakers are currently available to pre-order for 299 (399 after the first 1,000 units are sold) along with memberships for the first two seasons (79) on sale, as well. “We are only shipping in the United States at the moment, but we will be expanding soon. Availability, according to Oda’s Laura Searles-Mohale, isn’t going to be limited to specific geographic limitations for the live streams right now. This resonates with me as an audiophile and the “straight wire with gain” mantra of purest amplification. As it should be.” Oda also points out their system contains no microphones to record users. They can play to you in your home, not on a phone or in a browser. They can activate your speakers with the press of a button. They craft their sound on the same speakers you listen through. On their website the company says of the relationship between performer and audience - “Oda artists control every detail of the performances you hear. Imagine a cultural pulpit for the home without a screen to fiend over - it’s strictly a listening scenario: you come to the altar of stereo imaging because this isn’t about the technology (almost a lack of it), it’s about bringing an artist and an audience together in a most organic manner - the tech takes a back door to the performance. Simply put: They're built like instruments, so they make instruments sound beautiful.” They’re made of wood, glass, cotton, and steel: materials that are humble and human, not technological.

The Oda website touts construction details about how the “… speakers are built using techniques drawn from traditional crafts like bookbinding, light aircraft construction, and, of course, luthiery.

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The hardware Dangerfield and his team designed to accompany this software focuses on specially-designed and artisanally-built loudspeakers connected to a wifi/Bluetooth receiver dubbed the ‘Lighthouse’ which is currently priced at $299 USD. Oda’s unique format even allows us to engage legendary artists unable to perform outside of their homes.” The artist lineup includes luminaries such as Arca, Madlib, Terry Riley, Jessica Pratt, Bradford Cox, Beatrice Dillon, and Sarah Davachi and the Microphones to name but a very few.

We engage experimentalists, storytellers, and audio pioneers to create works that unfold over time.

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The Oda model consists of a series of live performances commissioned around a seasonal schedule (three months/12 weeks) priced at $79 USD where the company says “… each season we present a series of truly singular live performances. Only, to ensure an end-to-end experience as each artist intended it – unlike so many other live stream options – playback hardware was developed by Oda to facilitate a listening space as engaging in its ability as the live performance, all without breaking the bank. Modelled – in a sense – after radio plays of bygone years (think The Adventures of Sam Spade in the ‘30s) where bringing live performances into one’s home centered around making time to sit down and experience them as they’re happening. He wants to offer a high-quality experience-driven sustainable platform alternative to the typical YouTube live stream. Dangerfield’s simple idea is about fidelity.