For fifteen years Nick Fells has been making electroacoustic work in the UK, mixing environmental and artificial soundscapes with instrumental and computer-based improvisation. As a member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra and a shakuhachi player he worked under the auspices of such instrumental luminaries as Barry Guy, Evan Parker, Fred Frith and Keith Rower.
This set re-combines and re-presents material collected and composed during this time. The work is a transient reflection on sound experiences of the distant and recent past. Fellow-colluders include friends from the contemporary music and improvisation scenes in the cities of Glasgow and Munich; members of various Scottish orchestras; Ghanaian sculptor Kofti Setordji; the Glasgow public; pilgrims at the Mahabodhi temple at Bodhgaya in India; wildlife recorded around various Scottish and English rivers and lakes Starnberg south of Munich; plus a host of others. The existing works built from these sources are interrogated and re-configured live in a spatial remix specifically for the Project Room.
‘wildly imaginative’ - The Scotsman ‘sensationally exhausting the ambiguity between sound and silence… interactive music-making full of desire’- Sueddeutsche Zeitung