Mark
Fell

...is an artist, musician and curator based in Sheffield, whose diverse practice is demonstrated at startrunning. With Syncresis 1.2, a non-linear video installation, Fell demonstrates his own developed way of treating duration sound and image in unison. Enabling a clip to be manipulated in real time whilst the original pitch relationships of the sounds captured will remain intact. This enables him to focus on the smallest of detail in everyday activity and engage with it in an intimate way. It is these subtle inner moments that cross over to his slow and intense AV Performance work Attack on Silence. Here a new formal aesthetic exercise blends long bands of colour and synthetic sound that gradually change with synchronised synthesis.

Fell's work for startrunning merges many of his synthetic light and multichannel sound studies into a newly created audiovisual piece. Past installations work by translating colour matrices into the dmx lighting protocol then combining additive synthesis. Previously colour curves were drawn into the matrix by hand, and similarly, the levels of harmonics present in each of the channels were hand drawn curves. Pairs of colour and harmonic curves were then interpolated into one another. This once manual process has been developed for automating his work into an approximation of the original multi speaker instillations. The new Untitled work is a stark architectural version of this bformat ambersonic stream for one algorithm, onscreen colour with two-channel sound.

www.markfell.com