1 | –Mark Fell With Sandro Mussida | Focal Music #5b With Sandro Mussida, Piano, Karlsruhe 2016Piano – Sandro MussidaRecorded By – Anton Kossjanenko | 15:19 |
2 | –Mark Fell With Laura Cannell | Focal Music #3 With Laura Cannell, Overbowed Violin, Newcastle 2015Violin [Overbowed] – Laura Cannell | 20:48 |
3 | –Mark Fell With Aby Vulliamy | Focal Music #4 With Aby Vulliamy, Viola, Leeds 2015Viola – Aby Vulliamy | 10:47 |
4 | –Mark Fell With Sandro Mussida | Focal Music #5a With Sandro Mussida, Piano, Karlsruhe 2016Piano – Sandro MussidaRecorded By – Anton Kossjanenko | 15:27 |
Edition of 150 copies.
Focal Music #4: performed with Aby Vulliamy at The Leeds Library (Leeds, 2015) at "Peter Gidal/Mark Fell: Film/Sound" organised by Pavilion and curated by Will Rose. Focal Music #3: performed with Laura Cannell at Baltic 39 (Newcastle, 2015) for "Broken Telephone", an event which formed part of Peter J. Evans’ exhibition "Across Islands, Divides". “Focal Music #5a” and “Focal Music #5b”: recorded with Sandro Mussed at Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (Karlsruhe, 2016) in the Kubus studio. All tracks mastered for this tape at lunchtime by Phil Julian.
Focal Music #3 and #4 were recorded with DPA 4060 microphone string mount, DPA 4060 microphone boundary mount and Zoom H4N portable recorder. Focal Music #5a was recorded with Schoeps MSTC 6 ORTF microphone, Millennia pre-amplifier and RME digital to analogue conversion. Focal Music #5b was recorded with 2 Neumann KM184 microphones in bass/mid configuration, Millennia pre-amplifier and RME digital to analogue conversion. ZKM recording engineer: Anton Kossjanenko. Thank you to: William Rose, Peter J Evans, Marie-Kristin Meier, Jan Hendrickse.
This composed clear-cut cassette is the cynosure of The Tapeworm – "we’ll create a new language by using this fucking machine"
TTW#89, copyright 2016 The Tapeworm.