Mark Van Hoen - Artefacts l
Review by Alejandro Camarillo
Artefacts l by Mark Van Hoen is an experimental electronic album that takes the listener on a journey through a vast soundscape of textures and tones. The album is a collection of previously unreleased tracks from the English musician, who has been active in the electronic music scene since the early 90s.
The album opens with "I Looked Into The Abyss", a track that sets the tone for the rest of the album with its haunting melodies and eerie soundscapes. From there, the listener is taken on a journey through a series of tracks that range from the ambient and meditative to the more upbeat and rhythmic.
One standout track is "The Revenant Diary", which features a pulsing beat and shimmering synths that build to a climactic crescendo. Another highlight is "The Last Flowers From The Darkness", a meditative track that features ethereal vocals and a dreamlike atmosphere.
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Filename: mark-van-hoen-artefacts-l.rar- MP3 size: 7.2 mb
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Tracks
| Track | Duration | Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Artefacts l | 10:03 |
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Catalog Numbers
TOUCHLINE4Labels
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Formats
- File
- MPEG-4 Video
Notes
- The first in a series of video works which examines the inner beauty of artifacts - or side effects - in the process of making electronic music & video. This concept is of course not new, even Van Hoen himself has been exploring the idea of imperfection in electronic sound since the early 80’s after having been influenced by the audio and video of Cabaret Voltaire and others. ‘Artifacts I’ essentially started from a live performance for a Touch event at Re:Sound in Vallejo, California. The audio was mixed from a collection of recordings prepared at his studio for the live performance, and was generated by a combination of analog sound generation & processing equipment and DSP processing in Native Instruments ‘Reaktor’ software. The resulting soundtrack was then connected to audio inputs in Vidvox’s ‘VDMX’ modular video software, and then used to modulate colours, space and interference patterns on a ‘found’ video clip downloaded from the internet.
- The video was then output to an analog video processor, where further modulations derived from the audio were implemented. The result is a video & soundtrack that are tied firmly together, not by editing but by modulations that show visually the very essence of the artifacts within the audio itself. It is recommended that the video be given full attention, and that the audio is either played back by high quality headphones or a suitable full frequency range audio system with the left and right speakers placed either side of a TV/Monitor capable of 16:9 playback.
About Mark Van Hoen
Real Name
- Mark Van Hoen
Name Vars
- M. Van Hoen
- MVH
- Mark Van Hœn
- Mark Vanhoen
- Van Hoen
Aliases
- Locust
- W.F.O.
Summary by Alejandro Camarillo
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