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Musical revisions and reviews: Mark Fell - Ten types of elsewhere
Today's post is about the Mark Fell album Ten Types of Elsewhere, released on LINE. I recently bought it on sale on Bandcamp and have listened to it in full a few times, all the way through, in silence. Its structure is interesting, rather than an arrangement of sounds, different sounds are recorded separately and then orchestrated in different combinations. I like the idea behind this, and was thinking of doing something similar myself, but I realize it's a common enough technique and it's neat how it can also act as a prompt for your own imagination, providing a starting point to jam to in your head after the album is over. Mark Fell generally takes an objective, unemotional approach to demonstrating quite neutral computer sounds, and here, they're quite sharp and focused, so much so that I can almost hear the computer playing the MIDI in some tracks, as if I was hearing a guitarist moving their hands over the strings. He uses a lot of repetition in the tracks, making a point of focusing in on the elements of sounds that interest him, regardless of whether or not the listener feels they're being starved of a harmonic pay-off, a sense of space in the composition. He doesn't care about that. The sounds are also haptic, tactile, reminiscent of physical instruments or objects, but not quite. The liminal existence of the sound, between the real and the abstract, is what I find so appealing.
https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/ten-types-of-elsewhere

#Upcoming Epic in scope, “Dessogia/Queetch/Fauch” by #LimpeFuchs and #MarkFell, is an unexpected major statement from two great mavericks of contemporary music. An immersive and entirely distinctive world of sounds, melding ancient musical procedures with cutting edge technologies. Available via #BlackTruffle, November 1st. https://blacktruffle.bandcamp.com/album/dessogia-queetch-fauch

#nowplaying Multistability by #MarkFell https://album.link/i/413087339