music of the eternal now: post-husserlian temporality, pattern cyclic time-consciousness and computer music

video, 23m 23s. shot on hailuoto island, finland 2013

"Music Of The Eternal Now: Post-Husserlian Temporality, Pattern Cyclic Time-Consciousness And Computer Music" is a silent film by British artist Mark Fell. Shot entirely on the remote Finnish island Hailuoto, it interweaves Fell’s critical writing with the island’s frozen, inert and haunting landscapes. As a meditation on time and music placed within a space that is both motionless and silent (a place without time and music), the work’s central dichotomy parodies how music is defined as timeless, universal or spiritual. The film opens with a rejection of Varèse’s remark that “music is organised sound”. In place of this it asks us consider the context dependant functionalities of music as opposed to a singular abstracted form. Drawing from anthropology, philosophy and computer music software the work presents a compelling analysis of the temporal mechanics of musical and technical systems."

shown at:

pavilion leeds, may 2013
sound thinking frankfurt, may 2013
pan festival issue project room, new york, june 2013 http://issueprojectroom.org/drupal/event/rashad-becker-valerio-tricoli-mark-fell
pan exhibition Anthony Greaney Gallery boston, june 2013
sno sydney july 2013
ICA london sept 2014
laboratory of hearing, helsinki 2015