Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts

The long awaited second edition of Mark Fell’s Structure and Synthesis – The Anatomy of Practice is finally here from publisher Urbanomic. This extensive anthology brings together diverse materials charting the development of pioneering artist Mark Fell’s defiantly unorthodox practice.

An amalgam of workbook and manifesto, Structure and Synthesis interweaves diagrammatic sketches, procedural systems, drawings, and photographs with philosophical essays, cutting polemics, instructional texts, and fragments from the artist’s personal notebooks, offering multithreaded perspectives on time, technology and aesthetics.

Designer Joe Gilmore creates a striking graphic context for Fell’s evolving thinking, and the methods and structures developed over his many solo and collaborative works.

An accompanying playlist is available on publisher Urbanomics YouTube channel, featuring tracks mentioned and discussed in the book.

Mark Fell is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, and theorist based in Rotherham, UK. Renowned for his rigorous and conceptual approach to electronic music and sound art, Fell’s work explores the limits of structure, rhythm, and perception through a blend of computational systems, philosophical inquiry, and cultural critique.

Paperback
Edition supported by Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts
Design: Joe Gilmore
Original Edition (Paperback, Nov 2021)

Image: Urbanomic