Project result Mark Fell’s residence in the Sound LAB
“Time is not something that happens outside of us, a kind of receptacle of being; we ourselves are time. The processes of the world are encountered in time.”
Martin Heidegger. Supplements: From the Earliest Essays to Being and Time and Beyond. (1910–1925)
As a result of his residency at LABoral, Mark Fell has developed I Can´t Fix What You Broke, 2014, an installation that attempts to infer a spatial rather than temporal self-world gestalt. In this work, nine audio monitors are distributed around a totally blacked-out gallery space. Each monitor produces a single synthetic tone, recorded by Fell with a large modular system, typically used for complex temporal modulations of sound using a variety of time-based processes. Here each tone does not vary in a time domain (other than the tuning instabilities present in analogue synthesis).
Unlike the deliberately transcendental emphasis of much tonal work, the piece alludes to disorientation, alienation and incredulity… the central vocabulary of Fell’s aesthetic.
I Can´t Fix What You Broke is specific at spatial level, in other words, it is developed for the architectural design of the. In order to experience this installation, the visitor enters holding a rope that leads them through the work. Both the residency and the work to be produced are part of the L.E.V. 2014 programme, a festival co-produced by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.
Text of Mark Fell about I Can´t Fix What You Broke [+]
