friday 20 april – 11 pm ~
Ex GAM
Mark Fell & Drumming – Grupo de Percussão (GB/P)
INTRA
sound performance
INTRA is a new work by Mark Fell commissioned by Serralves Museum in Porto that revisits a collection of microtonal metallophones originally developed by the composer Iannis Xenakis. In this piece, performed by Drumming – Grupo de Percussão, a computer transmits timing instructions to each of the four players. The work uses a pattern generating system based on nested loops that permute over time. INTRA explores Fell’s interest in the relationship between algorithmic systems, music and time. Drawing upon influences from recent work in anthropology, phenomenology and cognitive science, it considers how we inhabit and operate within such structures.
Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Sheffield. After studying experimental film and video art he reverted to earlier interests in computational technology, music and synthetic sound. In 1998 he began a series of critically acclaimed record releases on labels including Mille Plateaux, Line, Editions Mego and Raster Noton. Today he is one of the most outstanding protagonists within the wide territory of algorithmic based music, both solo -in his own name or as Sensate Focus- and with the legendary SND and many other collaborators. His conceptual and critical approach to the technological nature of his practice and its cultural and social implications have led to an expansion of the musical and disciplinary reaches of his work which, in addition to records and concerts, has also taken the form of orchestral works, installations, transdisciplinary performances, critical texts and curatorial projects. He has worked with a number of artists including Yasunao Tone, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Okkyung Lee, Luke Fowler, Peter Gidal, John Chowning, Ernest Edmonds, Peter Rehberg, Oren Ambarchi and Carl Michael Von Hausswolff. The growing diversity of Fell’s practice is reflected in the broad spectrum of institutions that have invited him to present his work, from clubs such as Berghain in Berlin to the Hong Kong National Film Archive, to performances and exhibitions at institutions such as MACBA (London), The Royal Festival Hall (London), The Serpentine (London), Whitechapel (London), Artists Space (New York), EMPAC (Troy, New York), Issue Project Room (New York), Lampo/Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts (Chicago), Haus der Kultur der Welt (Berlin), CCA (Glasgow).
www.markfell.com
Drumming – Grupo de Percussão was founded in Oporto in 1999 and has since then been directed by Miquel Bernat, an internationally renowned percussionist. Geared towards contemporary music and with open doors to all the worlds of sound, the group has been synthesizing the evolution of erudite percussion in Portugal and in western culture. It has rapidly earned the public and the critic’s approval, and today it is a reference in the Portuguese musical scene, as well as in Spain, Belgium, France, Germany, Brazil. Resident group for musical programming in Porto 2001 European Cultural Capital, it has contributed to promoting contemporary works, also creating their own repertoire, encouraging dozens of national and international composers to write compositions for the group, exploring the most diversified and imaginative forms and ways of expressing centered on percussion.
www.drumming.pt
composition & live Mark Fell
performers Drumming: Miguel Bernat, João Dias, Pedro Oliveira, Saulo Ribeiro Giovannini
production Serralves Museum, Porto