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Mark Fell and Limpe Fuchs come from seemingly incompatible traditions – Fell from algorithmic and electronic music, Fuchs from self-built instruments, improvisation, and acoustic sound. Meeting at the edges of their respective fields, they have discovered a shared space in which to explore alternative approaches to performance and musical structure. Their performances explore temporal instability through sustained improvisation, allowing time to drift, fracture, and re-form across extended durations, where music is a continuous negotiation of time as an audible and unstable process.
Mark Fell emerged from Sheffield’s underground electronic scene in the late 1990s, gaining attention for stripping house and techno to their essentials. His practice evolved into explorations of unusual, systematised time through performances, installations, recordings, and writing. Drawing on philosophy, analysis, and film, Fell now works predominantly collaboratively, focusing on group systems, collective music-making, and the dynamics of social process.
For decades, Limpe Fuchs has been one of the most imaginative sound artists on the international experimental music scene. Having studied piano, violin, and percussion in Munich, she now plays on a collection of instruments made from bronze, granite, and hardwood materials, with a real-time engagement to the ecology of the space at hand.