Structures

Spaceship is Mark S. Williamson, a musician, sound artist, film maker and educator based in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. His work is often made in response to his environment, working on location, combining field recordings with electronic and acoustic instrumentation, usually recorded outside, amid the landscape and weather. Mark has recorded for wiaiwya, Apollolaan, the Dark Outside and his own Forged River Recordings. His work has been reviewed by The Wire, Electronic Sound, Shindig and The Quietus and he was one of the fourteen artists featured in Electronic Sound Magazine’s ‘field recording special’. Following 2019’s Outcrops and 2022’s Ravines, Structures is the third album in Mark’s trilogy of releases describing the geological history of the Upper Calder Valley. Where Outcrops explored the formation of the Millstone Grit bedrock 330 million years ago and its subsequent glacial scouring, and Ravines delved into the steep sided cloughs that lead down to the Calder, Structures