INSIJAM #8 rami abi rafi invites Mark Harwood

thank you Mark for being part of INSIJAM #8

Mark Harwood (b. 1972, Upwey, Australia) Mark Harwood is an Australian artist, musician, performer, writer and publisher.Under the guise of Astor he deployed a wide variety of techniques including field recording, musique concrete, electronics and general disturbance. All of these forms are approached with a sense of bypassing the cliches imbedded within, in order to coerce a sound world which is simultaneously contemporary, foreign, beautiful, unsettling and engaging.  Mark has released three acclaimed lp’s on Kye (USA) and Penultimate Press (UK) and the Astor moniker along with a series of collaborative recordings with Graham Lambkin, Áine O’Dwyer, Timo van Luijk, Matthew P Hopkins etc. Harwood has performed all over Europe, USA, Australia, Chile and Argentina. Penultimate Press is a London based music publisher of the esoteric and sublime. Amongst the 50 releases on the label Penultimate Press have unearthed lost works by the Danish Fluxus artist Henning Christiansen and early American minimalist composer Dennis Johnson, along with publishing releases by the legendary Polish outfit Ksiezyc, outsider French instrument builder Jacques Brodier alongside acclaimed works from Aine O’Dwyer, Triple Negative, Francis Plagne, Maths Balance Volumes, Pancrace, Jérôme Noetinger + Anthony Pateras, Joe McPhee and Moniek Darge amongst others.

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