Odd Beholder is the electro/wave/indie pop project of Swiss musician, producer and activist Daniela Weinmann, with which she precisely and laconically chronicles the oddities, dark sides and misunderstandings of our time. In her songs, Weinmann tells of alienation and escapism, of emancipation and the vision of a possible better world. Her version of dark pop music deals with unpleasant facts while offering comfort at the same time. And she does so in a way that is never tedious, exhausting or didactic, but rather makes the tedious and exhausting aspects poetically tangible. Her fourth album "Honest Work" is a concept album dedicated to the stories of working people. In ten tracks, Daniela Weinmann condenses the impositions of modern working life and reflects on a society in which closeness, privacy and authenticity are commodified. The album tells of frustration with unfair working conditions, ecological crises and emotional loneliness. It tells of a society that internalises pressure to perform while only vaguely defining what performance actually means. It tells of exhaustion, anger and pressure, and of the lives of those who try to find their way in it and not lose their dignity – and who are likely to fail. "Honest Work" was created over a period of two years during a phase in which Weinmann was intensively grappling with her personal and professional situation. In addition to her music, she was working at the university to make ends meet. There, as part of her job, she ethnographically observes neoliberal start-ups and spends her nights writing music and playing concerts. "With a workload like that, no matter how resilient you are, you eventually become angry," she recalls. Inevitably, she has to confront her own overwork and doubts about her life plan. The pressures of everyday life are also reflected in the music, creating a sense of intensity: Odd Beholder's tracks are becoming clearer and more concise. This fits in well with the approach of Berlin-based techno producer Douglas Greed, with whom Weinmann is collaborating on the album's development and production. The tracks draw on electronic music from the nineties, including trip hop, drum 'n' bass, 2-step garage and industrial. Complemented by the introspective power of singer-songwriter role models such as Aldous Harding and PJ Harvey, beat and bass are at the heart of Honest Work, lending the music a new directness. Odd Beholder’s music is cinematic; for Weinmann visual expression is an essential component. The video clip for the single “Landscape Escape”, shot by Berlin filmmakers Grambow & Kirchknopf in Azerbaijan in cooperation with the Azerbaijan Social & Modern Dance Association, won the jury prize of the “Best Swiss Video Clip”-Awards 2017. In 2019 Weinmann is shooting with performance artist Ernestyna Orlowska and interdisciplinary Belgian-Swiss dancer and choreographer Annalena Fröhlich. Conversely, music from Odd Beholder’s songs is often used in films. The song “Landscape Escape” for example is central to the film “Mario” by Marcel Gisler, which deals with the complicated handling of homosexuality in the world of soccer. Odd Beholder has been invited to important showcase festivals such as Great Escape (UK), Eurosonic (NL) or Reeperbahn Festival (DE), has toured in various formations in China, Italy, Germany and Switzerland and was explicitly asked by the Hamburg-based electro-pop duo Hundreds as well as by Bodi Bill to accompany their respective tours. Weinmann is co-founder of Music Declares Emergency Switzerland, a politically independent initiative of artists and people working in the music industry, which advocates for climate protection on an industry-specific basis and develops responses to the climate emergency. In 2023 Weinmann is directing a documentary film that examines the sense and nonsense of various sustainability measures taken by Swiss festivals.