part of the ramble that remained in the end without explores the nexus of inner and outer worlds through a dual writing/recording practice: daily list-form notebook writing and a tapeloop of recorded fragments, both accumulated from reading. The reading, writing, and recording aspects of the work are free to diverge and intersect across a kind of roving open privacy, producing a coherent field of potential performance or realization marked by characteristic modularity and switches between discrete modes of action. This work stems from So’s longstanding use of field recordings and performed readings, but with a deeper connection and contiguity with wherever he happens to be working–creating an evolving register not only of recorded and written surfaces, but his movements through a changing field.

part of the ramble that remained in the end without manifests in two parts. The first part takes place on-line throughout the month of November. The second part, an in-person live presentation in Toronto, will take place on December 7.

PART 1: November
Throughout the month of November, So will post to FADO’s Instagram page with a selection of recordings, images, and writing as he goes about his work along walks in urban and suburban areas of greater Los Angeles.

Part 2: December 7
Mark So’s part of the ramble that remained in the end without culminates in a unique presentation at FADO, featuring a performance of writing and recordings made along walks in Toronto as well as around Los Angeles during the month of November.

part of the ramble that remained in the end without is part of FADO’s newest on-going series, Walk-and-Talk, put together by Francesco Gagliardi and Julian Higuerey Núñez.