FACT’s Scott Wilson meets British artist and electronic musician Mark Fell, who talks about a lifetime of experimentation with FM synthesis and algorithmic composition.
“[Mark] Fell’s wry, matter-of-fact approach to navigating the music industry is much the same now as it was in 1998, when SND’s Tplay redefined minimal club music with a stripped-back combination of lush house chords and crisp 2-step beats. And whether he’s using software like Max/MSP to create algorithmic composition processes, or exploring specific FM synth presets, his music is made on his own terms. Out of these occasionally obtuse concepts, he’s made some of the most inviting and accessible experimental music of the past 20 years and carved out a wildly varied multidisciplinary career; he’s just as likely to be found making installations as he is playing club shows.
Although Fell has been busy with different projects over the past decade – most notably the deep house-oriented Sensate Focus alias and collaborations with Errorsmith and Gabor Lazar – this year he released Intra, his first proper solo album since 2010. Written for Portugal’s Drumming Grupo De Percussão, who performed it on a metallophone system devised by Greek avant-garde composer Iannis Xenakis, it’s a multitimbral, ASMR-inducing delight that does strange things to your brain.”
At Rewire 2019, Mark Fell will present a new, commissioned work for sound, light, kinetic objects and performance. Listen to an excerpt from his celebrated ‘Multistability’ below and learn more about his Rewire 2019 performance atMark Fell.
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