Odd Nosdam
Other / Ambient / Funk Berkeley, CA |
ABOUT ODD NOSDAM
David P. Madson was born deep in the Reader's Digest belt of middle America--Cincinnati, Ohio--in the bicentennial year of 1976 to a Catalonian belly dancer and a farm-raised Iowan engineer. Just the kind of auspicious incongruity needed to promise a life free of predictability. He played trumpet in elementary school and hoops on Porkopolis side streets, drew constantly and skateboarded in between, but it was an unassuming plastic rectangle that stole his heart in eighth grade...after he stole it (a copy of De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising) from a house party. A young Odd Nosdam began meddling with machines in the mid-'90s, looping his favorite Nirvana riffs and Black Moon beats on a Sega Genesis and filling tapes with noise collage. In his early 20s, his visual fixations brought him to the Art Academy of Cincinnati, where he studied fine art and photography, while his more recent aural obsession necessitated a Dr. Sample and a Tascam cassette 8-track. Here, a new romance began with fellow found souls Doseone and Why?, as well as a fertile run of projects and tapes sound-designed by Nosdam (Greenthink, Reaching Quiet, Plan 9) that culminated in cLOUDDEAD's hallowed eponymous debut. His work there done, David dropped out of art school, left home in March of 2001, and relocated to the Oakland Bay Area Anticon settlement. read more...
