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Two Actors

by Mark Harwood

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1.
The Fly Abstracted Death 02:40
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2.
Character Waltz 02:30
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3.
The Course of a Year 02:02
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4.
Where is my Man ? 01:38
5.
_L`ofonia View 02:08
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6.
She Has No Eyelids 02:35
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7.
The Frog Called (Modify The Ventriloquist) 05:15
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8.
Another Island 04:48
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9.
Ein Gehirn Musik 01:30
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10.
Implied Author 04:09
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11.
The New Dubious 04:32
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about

Messiaen traded his goods for brain rot. Mark Harwood, the elusive Penultimate Press helmsman, slips into character again—plural, fractured, unreliable. Two Actors plays like a dialogue without a script: human versus machine, or one man arguing with his own shadow.

Unlike his first solo record, "A Perfect Punctual Paradise..” voices only mumble and stumble on occasion. Here the “Actor(s)” appear in a variety of forms; sincere, female, mocking, beautiful, journalistic, operatic and more. Digital fevers rise, only to be punctured by sudden bursts of sincerity - like songs for instance, or the sound of a dolphin spirited to the netherworld, on one occasion an infernal battle deep within an eternity machine presents itself in the guise of entertainment. This is an abandoned snowstorm where the intermission never ends. Harwood tries on the masks we never wear.

Two Actors is a score carved from algorithmic echoes, lonely walks, and something uncomfortably close to tenderness. A collective mind steeped in data of itself and externus, at once, disturbing, comic and humane.

Harwood’s compositions are strong, occasionally pop, or classical in their architecture, giving the whole thing a nutty touch, à la Ichabod Crane meets The Mad Hatter. Two actors revel in haunted humour amid a playful disjointed theatre of voices.

Two Actors is a dialogue with no script, but clear insight. I just love Harwood and the way he sees this thing of ours.

- Juho Toivonen, Finland, 2025

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released November 15, 2025

Werner Durand plays Buzz Clarinet on The Frog Called
Mastered by Rashad Becker

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Mark Harwood Berlin, Germany

Mark Harwood (b. Melbourne) is a Berlin based performer and recording artist working with a variety of sonic and performative elements.

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