Author: Mark

 
Live performance version of Sounds Of The Modern Hospital, Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Arts, 26th February, 2014.

Launch event for the LP ‘Sonograph Sound Effects Series Volume 1: Sounds Of The Modern Hospital’.

 

Full video – live at Soundtiago Festival, Santiago, Chile, 2018.

A live radio work created for Radio Revolten. Recorded at the Radio Revolten Club on Tuesday, 25th October 2016.

‘Dead Air Spaces’ is a new radio work that explores one of the most basic but vital of our bodily functions – breathing. It includes interviews with diving instructors, a singer, an organist and a yoga teacher and recordings of breathing exercises, snoring, pneumatic tube systems, purring cats, suction units and scuba-divers along with mechanical processes analogous to the human respiratory system such as church organs, bellows and hospital ventilators. The piece also incorporates the use of bi-nasal microphones, a balloon repurposed as an artificial lung and variety of pipes, tubes, whistles and other apparatus played live.

A ‘dead air space’ in diving terminology, refers to a pocket of air that doesn’t play a part in the gas exchange with the lungs; air left over in the snorkel, regulator or even the throat containing greater levels of carbon dioxide.

Laura Phillips & Mark Vernon duo – live at the Bristol Exchange 29th September, 2021.

Performance to plug the launch of the ‘Sonograph Sound Effects Series Vol.2: Public & Domestic Plumbing & Sanitation’ LP on Calling Cards Publishing.

Laura Phillips: Live 16mm and video projections, hacked and amplified projector and waterphone.

Mark Vernon: Field recordings, pipes, tubes, drips, hydrophone, aquarium water pump, soap suds, popping candy and live processing.

Solo live set – Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 31st March, 2017.

Appearing on the same bill as Helm.

Solo live set – Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 4th May, 2017

Live version of the album “Lend an Ear, Leave a Word” with Chilean label mates Glorias Navales.

Solo live set – The Rum Shack, Glasgow, 7th November 2016.

Appearing on the bill with Jason Lescalleet.

Solo Set – The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 15th May 2018.

Appearing on the same bill with Miki Yui.

On October 15th Art Radionica Lazareti, Dubrovnik hosted the first improv encounter of Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon.

Found sounds & tape loops, field recordings & objects, electromagnetic mics & hydrophones, cardboard box & wheelchair wheel, violin & balloon, toy drum & feedback – are only some of the means which they used for sculpting phantasmic sonic narratives in their attentive and dynamic musical exchange.

Live performance at Iklectik, London, 23rd July, 2022 for the Persistence of Sound label album launch of ‘A World Behind This World’.

Binaural recording of quadraphonic live set diffused over the 17-speaker Amoenus 3D surround sound system.