A week-long workshop between MARK FELL and the Vienna jazz ensemble STUDIO DAN. Not just the sessions, but the rehearsals and even the conversations during breaks were recorded, then arranged chronologically and edited into a 2-hour-40-minute document, now released on cassette! Aimed at exploring "collective action and a new musical aesthetic," it takes the paradoxical approach of framing the process by which expression comes into being as the work itself. Two tapes plus an oversized poster, in a limited run of 150 copies!
We've secured copies of "Remarks On Process," a documentary-style cassette work recorded in May 2024 at Vienna's Westbahn Studio! A week-long workshop between MARK FELL and STUDIO DAN—the session footage leading up to the final day, the rehearsals, the conversations—all comprehensively recorded and edited into a documentary tracing the path toward collective expression. By framing the process itself, it comes across like a director's cut of the improvised music and edited music (editing techniques) that MARK FELL has pursued so energetically over the past decade. There's the fascination of peeking in on how expression is completed through interpersonal exchange, and as pure sound it's superb too—improvised yet honed and converged into a minimal, experimental form. The most interesting thing of all about this cassette is that the actual performance carried out on the final night is NOT included; the way that fires up your imagination, attitude and all, really got us. A special release right down to the packaging, and stock is limited, so don't wait.
(Original Japanese text by Akie)
We've secured copies of "Remarks On Process," a documentary-style cassette work recorded in May 2024 at Vienna's Westbahn Studio! A week-long workshop between MARK FELL and STUDIO DAN—the session footage leading up to the final day, the rehearsals, the conversations—all comprehensively recorded and edited into a documentary tracing the path toward collective expression. By framing the process itself, it comes across like a director's cut of the improvised music and edited music (editing techniques) that MARK FELL has pursued so energetically over the past decade. There's the fascination of peeking in on how expression is completed through interpersonal exchange, and as pure sound it's superb too—improvised yet honed and converged into a minimal, experimental form. The most interesting thing of all about this cassette is that the actual performance carried out on the final night is NOT included; the way that fires up your imagination, attitude and all, really got us. A special release right down to the packaging, and stock is limited, so don't wait. (Original Japanese text by Akie)