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Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist and writer, living in Rotherham, UK. His body of work includes electronic compositions and performance, sound installation, critical writing, educational systems and curatorial projects.

We discuss software-based composition, the 'bendy' nature of traditional Indian music and the experience of poly-rhythmic compositions and synthetic sound. His practice is expansive and in response to the human condition, looking for possibilities that can reveal new insights and procedures for participating with digital systems.

Mark's computational electronic compositions draw on both a compelling minimal aesthetic and complex algorithmic and mathematical structures. He has worked closely with Rian Treanor and most recently developed a collaborative open-source web based program — Intersymmetric. He is one part of snd with Mat Steel, naming their project after the extension often used for computer sound.

Other collaborators include Yasunao Tone, Laurie Spiegel, Okkyung Lee, Will Guthrie, Ernest Edmonds and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff. Mark has released work on labels including Line, Editions Mego and Raster Noton. In public space, Mark has presented work at international institutions including The Institute of Contemporary Art (London), The Serpentine(London), Victoria and Albert Museum(London), Whitechapel Gallery (London), VAC Foundation Palazzo delle Zattere (Venice), Hong Kong National Film Archive, The Baltic (Gateshead), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Laboral (XIxon), The Australian Centre For Moving Image (Melbourne), MOMA(NYC), Issue Project Room (NYC) and in 2017 he was the curator of “The Geometry of Now” at V-A-C foundation, Moscow.

Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice was published in 2022, charting Mark’s unorthodox theories on time, structure, technology. Mark has lectured on topics related to sound, performance, digital culture, and technology at institutions around the world.

** trigger warning ** 00:04:00 - 00:15:00 social-political conflicts that exist in Rotherham, UK are discussed.

Links:

https://www.markfell.com/

Structure and Synthesis: The Anatomy of Practice [2021] https://www.urbanomic.com/book/structure-and-synthesis/

Intersymmetric: https://intersymmetric.xyz/

Show notes:

Rotherham, UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham

Throbbing Gristle, The Second Annual Report [1977]

Yamaha TX81Z https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_TX81Z

Max: https://cycling74.com/

Mohammad Mortazavi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZbeAWK8yvw

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Eileen Myles (they/them) is a poet, novelist, activist, art journalist and a 1992 presidential candidate. They have been living in New York City since the mid-70s and now spilts their time between Marfa,TX.

We discuss the tension of poetry, the movements of the planets and their relationship to poetry, reading to a live audience and the power of 3x cakes and 3x rounds of "Happy Birthday", sung at their 75th celebration in Marfa, TX.

They have an excellent website which offers a very short / kind of short / really long bio options to read, including a homage to Animals. Eileen has been publishing books since 1978, recognized for their vernacular personal-narrative writing and titles include Chelsea Girls, Not Me, Pathetic Literature and The importance of being Iceland. They have made a formative contribution to the The Poetry Project, have contributed poems and others works to Art Forum, New York Review, Vice, Dazed and Confused, The New York Times, Playboy et al. Catalog essasy have been written about artists including Nicole Eisenman, Carolee Schneeman, Tabboo! Nan Goldin, and Jack Pierson. Using their platform to speak towards our social climate, Eileen’s participation in the world remains accountable. In 2022, they were inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

Links:

https://www.eileenmyles.com/

Social: @eileen.myles

Show notes:

'Eileen Myles chronicles a people's history of East River Park' Document Journal https://www.documentjournal.com/2022/07/eileen-myles-chronicles-a-peoples-history-of-east-river-park/

The Trip, Written and Directed by Eileen Myles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcdaUy6JfE

The Poetry Project https://www.poetryproject.org/

Onomatopoeia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

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Lizzi Bougatsos is an artist, lyricist and experimental musician living in Brooklyn, New York City. Her work is a complex expression of word, sound notions, collage, sculpture and performance.

A self-termed a Noise girl, born in Queens and growing up in New York City, Lizzi has continuously had a powerful presence on the experimental music scene. We discuss creative rituals, climbing pyramids, making sound with voice and body, and the power of the Sinead O’connor's ‘arrgghh’.

Lizzi is of Gang Gang Dance (of 25 years), I.U.D with Sadie Laska and has collaborated with many artists inc. Kim Gordon, Rita Ackerman (Angel Blood), Yoshimo + OOIOO, Lonnie Holley et al. Lizzi led the 8/8/08 BOADRUM, a collaboration with the Boredoms, singing with 88 drummers in an outdoor performance, in New York City and has exhibited work and performed at institutions including The Sao Paulo Biennale, Pace Gallery, American Fine Arts Co., TRAMPS, James Fuentes, Museo d’arts Contemporanea di Roma, Astrup, White Columns, Performance Space NY, The Whitney Museum of American Art and Bergan Kunsthall, Norway and Galerie Molitor, Berlin.

Links:

https://www.lizzibougatsos.com/

Gang Gang Dance http://www.ganggangdance.com/

James Fuentes Gallery https://www.jamesfuentes.com/artists/lizzi-bougatsos

Social: @baby_seal777

Show notes:

Before My Voice Fails, Gang Gang Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCbvmvwM1hc

88 BoaDrum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GydTq-SarnA

Taiko Japanese drumming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiko

OOIOO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OOIOO

The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft, Werner Herzog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fire_Within:_A_Requiem_for_Katia_and_Maurice_Krafft

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Claire Gilman is a curator and writer living in New York City.

We discuss the power of drawings and the intention for revealing a work to the public. The importance of being prepared as a curatorial practice of care and the process of research in acquainting oneself with the artist behind the work. Through Claire’s expertise, she is enabling us to participate in connections between present and past works. Her upcoming curatorial projects at The Morgan Library include works of Lisa Yuskavage and an investigation into the history of Tarot, centered on the 15th Century Visconti-Sforza Tarot Deck from the Morgan Library collection.

Claire is Acquavella Curator and Department Head, Modern and Contemporary Drawings at The Morgan Library in New York City. Claire’s trajectory as a curator of drawings has included her role as the Chief Curator at The Drawing Center, fostering the eclectic presentation of artist and exhibitions grounded in exploring new ways of "what drawing is and what drawing can do", including; A Greater Beauty: The Drawings of Kahlil Gibran [2013], Tomi Ungerer [2015], Ways of Seeing: Three Takes on the Jack Shear Drawing Collection [2022], as well as the works of established artists such as Cecily Brown and Rashid Johnson. Claire received a Ph.D. in Art History at Columbia University, she has served as a curatorial fellow at MoMA and taught art history and critical theory at Columbia University and The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. Claire has contributed articles to Art Journal, CAA Reviews, Documents, Frieze and October. Claire co-authored with Roger Malbet, 'Drawing in The Present Tense', published with Thames and Hudson [2013].

Links:

https://www.themorgan.org/press/2024/claire-gilman

https://drawingcenter.org/

Social: @clairesgilman

Show notes:

A Greater Beauty: The Drawings of Kahlil Gibran [2023] https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/a-greater-beauty-kahlil-gibran

Tomi Ungerer: All in One [2015] https://drawingcenter.org/exhibitions/tomi-ungerer-all-in-one

The Morgan Library: Visconti-Sforza Tarot Cards https://www.themorgan.org/collection/tarot-cards

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Aron Sanchez-Baranda is a video artist and photographer, living in Los Angeles, California.

We discuss Aron's investigations and immersion into the mesmerizing world beneath our ocean waters, the role of an artist and responsibility in communicating the confronting realities of discovered ecological shifts and degradation, collaboration and finding projects that give space for interactive expression.

Aron has discovered a deep connection to documenting the movement and habitats of biological marine animals - the majority of his life has been spent close to the California coast and through a trajectory in sound and music production, Aron shifted his focus to visual documentation. Working with moving image, photography and in collaboration with musicians and sound artists — Aron’s work is both a creative expression and an ongoing documentation. His instagram @waterbod is a cacophony of color, movement and delicious creatures filled with life and abstraction. Aron has collaborated with Venezuelan musician and record producer, Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez aka Arca, directing the mesmerizing visuals for Madre featuring Oliver Coates and works have been presented as large scale video installations in Times square’s Midnight Moment, the Venice Biennale and for Neo Shibuya TV, Tokyo.

Links:

https://www.aronsanchez.com/

https://aronsanchezprints.com/

Social: @waterbod

Show notes:

Arca – Madre feat. Oliver Coates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAS5k0xme8E

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Bobby Dowler is British-born artist and is living in Paris.

We talk about exploring film and harnessing one's skills, moving into spaces that are unknown and the process of making work, as a visceral discovery and the role of stewardship and ownership of art. Bobby refers to his passion for things 'kitsch' and his reference to artists Jeff Koons, Asger Jorn and Francis Picabia.

Bobby builds painting-objects acquired by salvaged materials, discarded from other artists and in found spaces; collecting, cutting, assembling, repainting using stretcher bars, canvas and paint. These outcomes are loaded with vibrant tension and austere emotional content - they are playful whilst being committed to examining the trajectory and history of art and considering what is the role of the artist, in our modern day. Bobby received a Master of Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts (UAL, London, UK), a BA in Film Studies from Solent University (Southampton, Hampshire, UK), and a Foundation in Art and Design from Camberwell College of Art (London, UK). He is represented by international galleries, Hannah Barry [UK] and Galería Alegría [Spain].

Links:

Social: @bobbydowler

Hannah Barry Gallery, UK https://hannahbarry.com/artist/bobby-dowler/#gallery-grid-82

Galería Alegría, Spain https://www.galeriaalegria.es/en/artists/77/bobby-dowler

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Luis Delfin Attawalpa Saul Felber aka British/Peruvian artist Attawalpa, is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, living in London.

We discuss the journey of the creative 'slow-burn', letting music come alive with space and the process of building sound compositions for moving image and film.

Luis has been involved in the London music scene since the early 2000s, participating in multiple bands and music groups, including Young Turks (now the record label Young). Attawalpa (formed in 2018) continues to evolve and guide us towards the spacious and vulnerable dimensions of the human psyche — immersing us in a pillow of melodies that evoke potential dreamings of our future. Luis’s interactions with sound have led him to working on sound scores for film and television, including the motion picture Catherine Called Birdy [2022] and Sharp Stick [2022]. Luis is co-creator and is writing and performing the score with Matt Allchin, for Lena Dunham's 2025 Netflix release ‘Too Much’ which will also feature original Attawalpa music. 

Attawalpa are preparing to release their second album, ‘Experience’ in 2025. 👀

[Attawalpa consists of Luis Felber - Singing/Guitars, Matt Allchin - Bass, Henry Danowski - Drums, Adam Sopp - Keys, Maurizio Ravalico - Percussion and Freya Hicks - Viola]

Links:

https://attawalpa.bandcamp.com/

https://www.attawalpa.com/

Social: @attawalpa

Show notes:

Attawalpa, Yellow Fingers music video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPxbQR5PXFY

Simpsonwave https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuVTt-M3IXo

Darondo, Didn't I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zljNPO6W8E

Attawalpa tour dates with Liz Lawrence https://www.instagram.com/p/DBOfqPGtskI/?igsh=MXBjcGp2d2tuODRwYg%3D%3D

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Justine Kurland is a photographer, collage-artist, educator and curator, living in New York City.

We discuss collage as a metaphor to navigate an inherent desire to break out of hierarchical systems of power, rebuilding an art practice that affirms connection, through collaboration and compromise and the impact of societal changes and perspectives, on the evolution of creative narratives. 

Known for her utopian photographs of real and imagined American landscapes and communities amongst the fringe, Justine moves between mediums and embodies a practice that is inclusive and open to change. Justine has published several books including; Girl Pictures, Aperture (2018), Highway Kind, Aperture (2016) and The Train, Mack (2024). Her work is in the permanent collections of institutions, including; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum, Pennsylvania; Getty Museum, California; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Justine’s series of collages, SCUMB Manifesto (The Society of Cutting Up Mens Books) transforms books by canonized male photographers. SCUMB Flowers is currently on view at Dashwood Projects in New York City [09/26/24—11/11/24] examining the pages of William Eggleston’s ten-volume set, The Democratic Forest. Info: https://dashwoodprojects.com/justine-kurland

Links:

Social: @justine4good

Website: https://www.justinekurland.com/

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Vittoria de Franchis, is an independent curator, language researcher and writer operating between London, Berlin and Rome. 

Her practice incorporates language experimentation, voice performance and collective projects that celebrate the possibilities of open-source collaboration. Through her explorations with sonic compositions, conversations, readings and writing - Vittoria has envisioned a total model for being and facilitating a connection with fantasy and space. Projects include; gggglllloooossssaaaa - a widespread series of interdisciplinary happenings, a project that has travelled internationally from New York City and Europe, connecting communities and envisioning new models for sound and voice performance. A recent exploration Unknown Language, echoes Hildegard von Bingen’s “Lingua Ignota”, deployed as a 5-week residency at Refuge Worldwide presenting different approaches to 'voice in sound and voice as sound’.

Her writings have been featured in Flash Art, Resident Advisor, Spike Art Magazine, Terraforma Journal, and with CIRCA - The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts.

Links:

Social: @vittoria.totale

GGGGLLLLOOOOSSSSAAA www.instagram.com/gggglllloooossssaaaa

Solo Voce, with Recital Program https://recitalprogram.bandcamp.com/album/solo-voce

Track 1: Che Giorni (2:22)

Track 2: Too Hot (00:35)

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Carl Michael von Hausswolff is a sound composer, visual-performance artist and curator, born in Sweden in 1956.

Since the 1970s, he has used the audio recorder and recording technology as his main device to create sound compositions that explore electricity, frequency and locations in space. Included in his sound investigations, is the paranormal experience of Electronic Voice Phenomena, which explores the presence of supernatural beings in other dimensions, intercepted as concurrent frequencies manifesting as voices and whispers from the other side. His sound compositions are complex layerings that are dense and radical — intuitively exploring a macromal and paced output of sound frequencies that interact with the unexplored spaces that interrogate our physical perceptions of sound, light and space. 

Von Hausswolff has collaborated with Swedish artist Leif Elggren, film-maker Thomas Nordanstad, EVP researcher Michael Esposito, and Jónsi (Sigur Rós) collaborating on the project Dark Morph.

His work can be found on record labels including RasterNoton, Touch, iDeal and MonoType.  

Links:

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Website: www.cmvonhausswolff.net

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