Mark Fell Mark Fell - Multistability

for the record - his half of "Head Office Transformation" (the cassette on alku on pg 3) is incredible.

Just ordered this, very interested by the samples.

This release is awesome, easily my favorite of his solo releases. None of the tracks go on too long, and there is a lot of variety. I'd say that it fares much better through speakers than through headphones, though... my tolerance for abrasive headphone music is high, but this is pushing my boundaries.

Was anybody here fortunate enough to get a copy of the limited companion essay/CD explaining his methodology (only ten copies released, according to his site)?

clapclappityclap 10-A is the shit

  On 12/4/2010 at 10:23 PM, homecharlie said:

This release is awesome, easily my favorite of his solo releases. None of the tracks go on too long, and there is a lot of variety. I'd say that it fares much better through speakers than through headphones, though... my tolerance for abrasive headphone music is high, but this is pushing my boundaries.

 

Was anybody here fortunate enough to get a copy of the limited companion essay/CD explaining his methodology (only ten copies released, according to his site)?

i asked him and he said that the cd contained short snippets of music that he found influential, plus some tracks that didn't make it onto Multistability. He said that the latter might be released digitally next year sometime.

  On 11/25/2010 at 10:26 PM, chassis said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 6:00 PM, beariksson said:

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

 

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ooOOOOOoooh, anywhere I can listen to them?

Just got my tape. The Mark Fell side is absolutely banging

The EVOL side might take a few more listens.

  On 12/7/2010 at 2:09 AM, chassis said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 10:26 PM, chassis said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 6:00 PM, beariksson said:

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

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

ooOOOOOoooh, anywhere I can listen to them?

 

Just got my tape. The Mark Fell side is absolutely banging

 

The EVOL side might take a few more listens.

that's a trend well established in this series, though mark's sides aren't always banging, they are much more accessible than the Evol ones.

  On 12/7/2010 at 2:18 AM, fox said:

  On 12/7/2010 at 2:09 AM, chassis said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 10:26 PM, chassis said:

  On 11/25/2010 at 6:00 PM, beariksson said:

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

 

  Reveal hidden contents

 

 

 

ooOOOOOoooh, anywhere I can listen to them?

 

Just got my tape. The Mark Fell side is absolutely banging

 

The EVOL side might take a few more listens.

 

that's a trend well established in this series, though mark's sides aren't always banging, they are much more accessible than the Evol ones.

I like Marks idea. But EVOL's sounds fucking mental. You can actually hear it too. For the 1st few seconds I though the tape was damaged.

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Mark Fell, 'Head Off'

I was watching my daughter play on Guitar Hero with headphones, all I could hear was the clicking of the buttons as she played. She, on the other hand, was have a very different experience. I made a recording of the sound of the button pushing which lasted about 30 minutes. Following this I implemented a simple system to analyze the sound file and give me a list of all the timings of the button pushes. This was then used to trigger a simple kick drum sound and lush chord generated using 4 operator FM synthesis. For me the music made outside the headphones, the skeleton of the guitar hero performance was far more interesting that the illusion of skill and performance it offered to the player. A more interesting head space transformation.

EVOL, 'Ice Transformation'

Phase space is the collection of possible states of a dynamical system. A phase space can be finite (e.g. for the ideal coin toss, we have two states heads and tails), countably infinite (e.g. state variables are integers), or uncountably infinite (e.g. state variables are real numbers). Implicit in the notion is that a particular state in phase space specifies the system completely; it is all we need to know about the system to have complete knowledge of the immediate future (James D. Meiss).

The words "rave synthesis" scrambled 100 times:

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bought this today... was not disappointed. very, very cool release.

I got it too. Very very cool.

Is it a bad idea that I want to remix these tracks? Id love to use the complex beats and add some lush pads and melodies. I think it was kick ass.

I love this album. What's Mark Fell's 'UL8' one like, though?

I just got a boomkat email about it. Anyone heard it properly?

  On 11/14/2010 at 3:42 PM, chassis said:

  On 11/6/2010 at 8:27 PM, mcbpete said:

Will it sound like another hour of Sonic The Hedgehog getting stuck in bumpers ?

 

lol

lol

Can't believe how good this is!

album of the month in de:bug

http://de-bug.de/musik/7140.html

some words on multistability

http://artforum.com/words/id=27306

mark just uploaded an hour long, slightly edited, mp3 from the multistability sessions previously only available on cd

http://www.markfell.com/wiki/index.php?n=Mf.ShamanicBearSessionMp3Version

Bear is a cool guy

In case you haven't run across it yet, you can still buy the Shamanic Bear Session track, as indicated here. The release is apparently limited to 25 copies, but it's been for sale for a while now. It is basically a couple of very extended versions of a single Multistability track.

Ace, on the download :)

I did finally get my copy of multistability, and I like it very much. I have ordered UL8 and I want more!!

  On 2/1/2011 at 9:25 PM, homecharlie said:

In case you haven't run across it yet, you can still buy the Shamanic Bear Session track, as indicated here. The release is apparently limited to 25 copies, but it's been for sale for a while now. It is basically a couple of very extended versions of a single Multistability track.

yeah I got a copy, but it's sold out now. thats why he uploaded the mp3 :)

what's your experience in trying to play Fells stuff for a group of people?

  On 2/1/2011 at 11:38 PM, Awepittance said:

what's your experience in trying to play Fells stuff for a group of people?

Not very good. SND went better.

I like it, so fuck them.

  On 2/1/2011 at 11:38 PM, Awepittance said:

what's your experience in trying to play Fells stuff for a group of people?

my wife is now very confused whenever there's a strange noise in the house, not sure if its music or the dishwasher about fling itself through the kitchen and into the living room. there's a look she gives me where the proper response is "yes, that's music"

mrs. alcofribas enjoys lots of "my" music but snd genuinely pisses her off. she'll dig on some ae but when i first played snd for her she was just like, "this is fucking bullshit."

also, i once heard encey do an excellent impromptu rendition of atavism 2 with a beer can and vocals.

My brain and ears just doesn't understand Mark Fell / snd stuff. Every track to me just sounds like:

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And the next track would replace a 'Clang' with a 'PftClang' or a 'B'Chnng'. And don't get me wrong I've given it a good go - I've heard Atavism three times now and got just over half way through that Shamanic Bear Session mp3 and I'm just

I feel stoopid for not getting it, it's the same reaction I've had towards extreme noise artists too - Just utter bewilderment. And here was me thinking my music tastes were pretty extreme !