Rian Treanor & Mark Fell present Intersymmetric Sequencer 1

Multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell has been pushing the boundaries of experimental music and sound art since the 1990s, using software tools such as Max/MSP to compose tracks that challenge the conventions of established genre structures. Fell’s son, Rian Treanor, is equally as inquisitive: across records for Planet Mu and The Death of Rave, he has created unclassifiable rave music built around hyperactive digital frameworks. Both have a keen interest in developing their own software tools to create music, and last year, as the pair were locked down at their family home in Rotherham, they began to develop a collaborative software platform for music production in Max/MSP, which was tested by a group of 10-year-olds from the local area, who recorded sounds at home, arranged them in a sequencer and performed together remotely. This concept has since expanded into Intersymmetric Sequencer 1, an online collaborative instrument commissioned by Sheffield’s No Bounds Festival for its 2021 edition. The i