Current:

TESSELLATION:
The latest album 'Tessellation' is now available to purchase and download from AtmoWorks / Hypnos.
A full preview, more information and the latest reviews are here.

RADIO 6 - FOLIO:
Folio
is a weekly show on Dutch NSP Radio 6 every Tuesday night between midnight and 01:00am (GMT +1). It features new releases in the ambient and experimental electronics genres.

On March 3rd the program broadcasted 'Mark Tamea: Tessellation and Other Works' compiled by Peter Van Cooten and presented by Hans Mantèl.

The show is archived, and you can listen to it here.

SOUNDMAP OF COLOGNE:
'rmxCGN - Remixing the Soundmap of Cologne' is now available as a free download from Konkretourist and includes my reworking of 'Sprechende Haltestelle in der Berliner Straße'.
Both the original album and the remixed version are uniquely interesting projects.

The music available for download on this site is free to share under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. If you wish to open a dialogue, or to order copies of the CDs, then please get in touch via the contact page.

You may also wish to visit: www.virb.com/marktamea

Previous:

After playing bass guitar with various left-field groups since the very late seventies, and travelling through a stratosphere of influence induced by such bands as The Pop Group, The Fall, Kraftwerk and Gong, I had a musical epiphany in 1991 whilst working with the experimental theatre group Blast Theory on the performance piece 'Gunman Kill Three'.

During this show (which was staged in the Union Chapel, Islington, London N1) I would capture live video feeds from the auditorium, graphically manipulate them using Amiga computers, and beam them back into the theatre space to interact once more with the performers. I began to realize that perhaps I could also do the same thing with sound, and use the Amigas as a contributing factor in my current band. The idea immediately caused the group to fracture, and so I took this as a sign to continue alone. I set up a small computer based studio in Hackney, London E8, sometimes collaborating with musicians such as Richard Olatunde Baker and the pianist/composer Dan Reade.

These associations eventually led in turn to my introduction, and subsequent involvement with the experimental collective CNS - based around a group of musicians and studio technicians who were entrenched within the underground party and squat scene of North London. This group eventually slimmed down, focussed on a common vision, and was renamed Kymatik. The result of this was the production of a large body of boundary displacing work which had a major influence on my ideology. My musical influences shifted to include The Hafler Trio, The Residents, Nurse With Wound and other such illuminated electronica. One track from this period 'Tisedni' was subsequently released some years later by Paradigm, on the Kymatik CD 'Dar-As-Sulh', and the rest is in storage.

In 1994 I miniaturized my studio, packed it into a small flightcase and left to travel and work in India, Australia and Taiwan. After two years and an informative exposure to the music and performing arts of some completely new cultures, (particularly TIPA in Northern India and U Theatre in Taiwan), I returned to Europe and settled in The Netherlands. There I constructing a permanent studio space and contributed work to the Center for Contemporary Arts in Warsaw.

During recent years I have been working primarily with electro acoustics, synthesizers and field recordings, in an attempt to articulate what I imagine are the hidden parallels between the discernible and the esoteric. Art, magick and science are informed influences upon me. Joseph Beuys and Marcel Duchamp, as well as John Cage and Ryoji Ikeda cast shadows into my brain. Recently, following a ten year hiatus, I worked once again on a project as one half of Kymatik, jointly producing The Paignton Anomaly CD.

A disciple is an asshole, looking for a human being
to attach itself to. - Robert Anton Wilson

 

May 2009

DOPPELGANGER: New from the Japanese 'Doppelganger' label is 'Compilation 141' - a collection of ambient, experimental and electronic pieces. It includes a new track from myself entitled 'Glacial Reflection One'. The CD is available to order here.

April 2009

DYSCORDIA: I was recently probed by Dyscordia.nl about my musical influences and production theories. You can read the full interview here.

January 2009

GONZO MAGAZINE: 'A Brain Shaped Hole Where A Head Used To Be' taken from 'Tessellation' was included on the 'Mind The Gap' CD published by Gonzo Magazine #90 (Jan '09).

December 2008

N.E.W: Nijmeegsche Electronische Waar - choose 'The Cell Assailed' from 'Tessellation' to appear on their new compilation CD 'N.E.W. 4.0'.

October 2008

The new album - 'Tessellation' is now available to purchase and download from AtmoWorks / Hypnos.

April 2008

Ressonus Records 'Ressonus Net Vol.1' compilation was released on the 20th April.
Order a copy of this beautifully packaged limited edition CD here.

April 2008

'Buried Traktora' is now available to purchase and download from AtmoWorks / Hypnos.

February 2008

The strictly limited glass artwork edition of The Paignton Anomaly is now available to order from Paradigm Discs.