Mark Fell Mark Fell - Multistability

This isnt a limited release, is it?

  On 11/23/2010 at 12:26 PM, chassis said:

This isnt a limited release, is it?

no

I dont need to preorder nothing then.

Sorted.

boomkat is now selling this in mp3 and flac.

  On 11/23/2010 at 7:21 PM, fox said:

boomkat is now selling this in mp3 and flac.

WICKED

Id love to know more about how they made this album. What software etc.. Maybe an interview?

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:05 AM, marf said:

Id love to know more about how they made this album. What software etc.. Maybe an interview?

Atavism was made with Yamaha FS1R and probably some drum machine samples sequenced with Max/MSP. This sounds pretty similar so I guess it's the same gear.

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:18 AM, beariksson said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:05 AM, marf said:

Atavism

i find it a lot lusher than that album. I wish it had more elements of the final track on this album. difficult to describe so musical and different

there is a certain fizzyness to the synth lines I like. Autechre have that sound on their last album too, but this album is even fizzyer

listening to it. I think the fizzyness i hear is software doing some nifty shit with loop points

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:18 AM, beariksson said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:05 AM, marf said:

Id love to know more about how they made this album. What software etc.. Maybe an interview?

 

Atavism was made with Yamaha FS1R and probably some drum machine samples sequenced with Max/MSP. This sounds pretty similar so I guess it's the same gear.

from Mark Fell - UL8 infos on mego page:

Using 32 operator frequency modulation synthesis configured in 16 pairs of operator and modulator. Frequency, modulation ratio and amount determined by linear interpolation between two spatial extremes, with further interpolation over variable temporal divisions. Panned at equal positions around the circumference of a circle using high order ambisonics. <...> The compositions here also feature modified Roland TR707 and Linn kick drum samples.

FS1R has 16 operators (8 Voiced, 8 Unvoiced).

  On 11/25/2010 at 7:14 AM, telefunken said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:18 AM, beariksson said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:05 AM, marf said:

Id love to know more about how they made this album. What software etc.. Maybe an interview?

 

Atavism was made with Yamaha FS1R and probably some drum machine samples sequenced with Max/MSP. This sounds pretty similar so I guess it's the same gear.

 

from Mark Fell - UL8 infos on mego page:

 

Using 32 operator frequency modulation synthesis configured in 16 pairs of operator and modulator. Frequency, modulation ratio and amount determined by linear interpolation between two spatial extremes, with further interpolation over variable temporal divisions. Panned at equal positions around the circumference of a circle using high order ambisonics. <...> The compositions here also feature modified Roland TR707 and Linn kick drum samples.

 

FS1R has 16 operators (8 Voiced, 8 Unvoiced).

Thats track 1-5 on UL8.

I think he was talking about this album - Multistability.

im surprised to hear Atavism was done on an FS1R, do you have any more information about that?

  On 11/25/2010 at 9:12 AM, Awepittance said:

im surprised to hear Atavism was done on an FS1R, do you have any more information about that?

can't remember his exact wording, but mark said all the pitched sounds on atavism were made on fs1r.

you should email him about it. he's the friendliest guy on the planet.

also Multistability CD + ltd 7" only on R-N store available now

https://shop.raster-noton.net/

this is available now too via http://personal.ilimit.es/perkele/evol/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeadOfficeTransformation

I got mine nice and quick from Bleep.

Apart from two annoying tracks, I think it sounds wonderfully hypnotic and mind-bending. Great stuff.

Mark Fell has some fascinating views, too:

http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/2007/11/conversation-with-mark-fell.html

whats his email? Pm me

  On 11/25/2010 at 5:00 PM, beariksson said:

this is available now too via http://personal.ilimit.es/perkele/evol/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HeadOfficeTransformation

ooOOOOOoooh, anywhere I can listen to them?

makes me ears tickle and nose itch

as i haven't a turntable anyone who gets the 7" should pm me . . .dig it. loving the album, might just be his best work yet. and i'm waiting for my copy of head office transformation to show.

  On 11/25/2010 at 2:05 AM, marf said:

Id love to know more about how they made this album. What software etc.. Maybe an interview?

Here are his publicly shared bookmarks http://www.delicious.com/markfell

I've stopped using delicious now, but I did see evidence of him researching some interesting things. If you want his email to ask for an interview you can find it here http://www.markfell.com/wiki/index.php?n=Mf.Contact

I wonder is there anyone here involved in any music sites, he might be a bit more interested in that? Worth a go anyway.

  On 11/25/2010 at 6:13 PM, Lianne said:

Mark Fell has some fascinating views, too:

 

http://teemingvoid.blogspot.com/2007/11/conversation-with-mark-fell.html

excellent interview. thanks!

Listened to the first few tracks of this and thought it was pretty interesting then I got sharp stabbing pains in my ears/brain and had to stop.

  On 11/30/2010 at 3:03 AM, Lucy Faringold said:

Listened to the first few tracks of this and thought it was pretty interesting then I got sharp stabbing pains in my ears/brain and had to stop.

Yeah, I wonder why it has that effect? I get the same when it's on a bit louder. Maybe there's lots of high-end frequencies (more than usual.)

I don't know. But I love the album regardless

I think it might be something to do with the speed of the percussive elements and the fact that a lot of the samples have no tails. It's a really unnatural thing to hear - rapid fire sounds with tiny bits of silence in between - particularly with headphones on. I remember Aphex used the same effect to close out one of the banging tracks on Drukqs (St. Michael's Mount?).

Shame really, it sounds lush with the volume way up but my ears cannae take it!