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Curio Cabaret | Continue Without Losing Consciousness

Live performances this weekend:

DCA, Gallery 1 & 2, Dundee,  Saturday 2nd August, 2014 | 3pm – 9pm | Free

An all-day free event as part of the exhibition Continue Without Losing Consciousness at DCA (Dundee Centre for Contemporary Arts) including music and performances of: John Cage’s ‘Water Music’ performed by Jamie Bolland; a choreography performance by Romany Dear; readings from Paul Becker; a live drawing and sound piece presented by Joe Howe and Rob Churm; free jazz performed by Death Shanties; a dance performance by Ashanti Harris and a solo live set from Mark Vernon that revisits field recordings and interviews made in Dundee 12 years ago.

More details here

The Arches, Glasgow, Sunday 3rd August, 2014 | 9.30pm | £7/£5
Curio Cabaret returns for another evening of frivolity, curated by performer and musician Sita Pieraccini. Local artists, bands and performance groups will present short theatrical acts with a musical focus including ‘Vernon & Burns meet the Bride of Lichtenstein’ – a rampaging, radiophonic phantasmagoria of nefarious four-colour fear.

 

More details here
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The Exponential Horn at the Science Museum

ImageHandler.ashxThe Exponential Horn: In Search of Perfect Sound opens at the Science Museum’s Media Space Studio on 20th May. The full-size reconstruction of the giant 27ft long  ‘Denman horn’ is the centrepiece of a new art installation by Aleksander Kolkowski. A popular highlight of the Museum’s daily tours in the 1930s, this colossal horn has been painstakingly rebuilt by the Museum’s Workshops team. You can now witness this forgotten instrument by exploring and celebrating the artefact and its history through newly created sounds, music and the spoken word.

Alongside the installation there will be a wide-ranging programme of events and audio demonstrations, featuring live broadcasts, sound art and archive radio footage from contributors including the BBC History, Resonance 104.4FM, BBC Radio 3, Archive of the Now, London College of Communication, Royal College of Music, and Royal College of Art.

Resonance FM: The Jerwood Commissions – On the afternoon of the 31st May you can enjoy an afternoon of new artists’ works commissioned for radio by Resonance FM including:

Mark Vernon- An audio exploration of Londonderry, Derry Denatured, using public participation, unconventional recording techniques and studio trickery

Aleks Kolkowski – Interference Field investigates phenomenon of electromagnetic and psychological interference in radio transmission

Jim Whelton – Mouth Piece is a reinterpretation of classic radio texts through Yamaha’s Vocaloid software

Mike Cooter – A performed reading of Mike Cooter’s radio drama Dingus, or a radio serial about an object

Sharon Gal – A radiophonic adaption of Liliane Lijn’s visionary feminist monologue Crossing Map

14.00-17.00, Saturday 31 May 2014
Virgin Media Studio, Media Space,
Science Museum,
London.
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Tyneside cinema event

 

Sound test - main imageSound Test 5.1 is a short, stereoscopic sound film commissioned by Pixel Palace and created by Mark Vernon and Loday Gonpo. Join us on the 29th May for a special 3D screening of the film and a talk by the artists. The screening will be followed by a live radiophonic sound piece performed by Mark Vernon with a blend of voice, electronic toys, white noise, amplified objects and field recordings.

Mark Vernon and Loday Gonpo at Tyneside Cinema
Thursday, 29th May, 18:00-19:30, tickets £5

Book your ticket now from the Tyneside Cinema Box Office or call 0845 217 9909.

More details here

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Vernon & Burns at Tectonics

V & B - Tectonics brochureFor the Tectonics 2014 festival in Glasgow, Vernon & Burns present a radiophonic, found sound, micro-drama they describe as ‘CPR’ (Cardio-Pulmonary Radiophonics) – a composition for Fetal Doppler, CPR training aid and found tape. The performance takes place on the evening of Friday, 9th May with the festival continuing over the rest of the weekend at the City Halls and Fruitmarket.

Condition: not serious, unstable.

7.30pm, Friday 9th May, 2014.
Tectonics festival, St. Andrews in the Square, Glasgow.

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Free Range radio show on Resonance FM

catamaranNew for 2014, a weekly slot for long-form one-offs and irregular special broadcasts on Resonance 104.4FM

‘Things That Were Missed in the Clamour for Calm’: a soundscape composed from field recordings made in Sri Lanka between October and December 2013. Produced by Mark Vernon.

Broadcast: 8pm – 9.30pm, Saturday, 12th April, 2014.

Repeat: 1.30am – 3am, Monday 14th April, 2014

Tune in to Resonance 104.4FM or follow the live stream online.

The show has now been archived here

 

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Sound Test 5.1 premiered at Tyneside Cinema

Card crop 8 bitMark Vernon is a sound artist and composer who has been working with visual effects artist Loday Gonpo to create Sound Test 5.1, a short sound film commissioned by Pixel Palace for Tyneside Cinema’s auditoria. Since the end of February the film has been playing before main features unannounced, inserted guerrilla style after the trailers.

A playful riff on the standard speaker tests that cinema projectionists use to check that the surround sound is operating correctly, the film explores the mechanics of the 5.1 surround sound system and how it operates within the cinema auditorium. The rich electronic soundtrack in the style of the BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop is combined with Loday’s beautiful motion graphics that are designed to reflect on the screen how the sound moves through the space.

By drawing attention to speaker locations within the auditorium and exposing how the surround sound image is created, Sound Test 5.1 reveals a little of the magic that goes into the cinema experience.

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‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’ record launch

hospital-Front There are two upcoming launch events to mark the release of the new vinyl LP record ‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’.

‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’ is a long-playing sound effects record in a limited edition of 250 copies produced by digital artist in residence at Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Mark Vernon. For these special launch events Mark will perform a live mix of sounds and voices recorded in different NHS hospital departments over the course of his residency additionally incorporating a live ultrasound feed of his own heartbeat.

Also on display will be an edition of 20 unique lathe-cut X-ray records displayed on light boxes. Inspired by Russian “roentgenizdat” records from the 1950’s (home made bootlegs of banned Western pop music that were pressed onto discarded X-rays) – these playable 7” records each feature a different X-ray image and a composed sound piece made from recordings taken in Forth Valley Royal’s radiology department.

A limited number of records will be given away free at each event. All welcome.

Launch 1: Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert
3-4pm, Saturday 22nd February, 2014 (performance approximately 3.30pm)
Lecture Theatre, Learning Centre, 3rd Floor

Launch 2: Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow
7-8pm, Wednesday 26th February, 2014 (performance approximately 7.30pm)
CCA Club Room, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

The record can also be purchased  here

Supported by Creative Scotland, NHS Forth Valley and CCA Glasgow.

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January Blues Supper

Every Wednesday this month the Old Hairdressers is holding a special intimate event in the bar area. Ticket price will include your supper and live entertainment between 7pm and 10pm.

This weeks entertainment comes from Mark Vernon, Crying Lion and Greame Ronald.

Where: Old Hairdressers, Renfrew Lane, Glasgow.

When: 7- 10pm, Wednesday 29th January.

Entry: £5

For more details see here:

http://www.stereocafebar.com/index.php?m=event2&c=view&id=196269:238003

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Sri Lanka Sound Diary


As part of a six week residency based at Sura Medura I will be travelling around Sri Lanka recording sights and sounds for a composed soundscape work which will be exhibited at the Colombo Art Bienalle in 2014. To keep track of my activities I am keeping a sound diary on soundcloud which I will periodically add new sounds to.

The residency is run by Scottish arts organisation UZ Arts.

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