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It takes the form of an extensive interview with a focus on one particular release – in this case my ‘Time Deferred’ album from earlier this year.
You can read the full interview here.
On the 18th August I will be performing alongside Yves de Mey and Nika Son at a special Entr’acte label night. For this event I will create a live soundtrack to an extended cut of the film ‘Tape Letters from the Waiting Room’ directed by Steven McInerney (released as an LP on the Psyché Tropes label last year).
An existential drama exploring the universal themes of death and rebirth ‘Tape Letters from the Waiting Room’ is an experiment in film archaeology and magnetic memory as it navigates past life experiences. Shifting in succession from the mundane to the metaphysical, the film is composed of extant 16mm found footage from the past century with an original soundtrack by Mark Vernon culled from his collection of domestic tape recordings, audio letters, found sounds and other lost voices.
More details here.
Throughout August I will be continuing a residency at Q-O2 – a workshop for experimental music and sound art in Brussels.
The project I am working on is a reprise of the Magneto Mori series. For this iteration, ‘Magneto Mori: Bruxelles / Brussels’ I will be recording people’s earliest memories direct to open reel tape. This tape will be cut into pieces and buried in the ground for 2-weeks along with magnets that will partially erase the recordings before being excavated and used as the basis for a new composition. The process is an analogy for the frailty of human memory and our ability to recall the past.
More details here.
Where: IKLECTIK
‘Old Paradise Yard’
20, Carlisle Lane (Royal Street corner – next to Archbishop’s Park)
SE1 7LG
When: Saturday 23 July 2022 | 3pm – 5pm
Tickets: £8 Adv / £13 OTD
Tickets available from IKLECTIK here.
An afternoon of superb acousmatic music from internationally renowned composers Natasha Barrett and Mark Vernon, using the 13.4 ambisonic sound system!
For more details see here.
Keeping Time was commissioned by Radio Art Zone for Esch 2022.
The piece will air from 14:00 CEST on Sunday 10th July until 12:00 noon on Monday 11th July.
Listen live to the full 100 day broadcast on Radio ARA 87.8FM in the South Luxembourg area or listen online to the stream at Radio ARA or Resonance Extra from the 18th June – 25th September, 2022.
Keeping Time is a meditative radio work that focuses on our perception of the passage of time and how time is measured. The piece combines durational recordings of clock workshops around the UK and beyond with a specially constructed ‘radio clock’ painstakingly created from 3,600 individual percussive sounds – 1 for each second of the hour – plus excerpts from interviews with some of the horologists who generously gave up their time for this project.
You can find more details on the piece here.
A radio art project by Radio ARA and Mobile Radio for the European Capital of Culture Esch2022
Imagine a radio station that sounds different every day…
Radio Art Zone is a 100-day radio art station for Esch2022, which will be broadcast in the south of Luxembourg by Radio ARA on 87.8 FM. It will also be live-streamed for a worldwide audience and transmitted by a network of international partners including Resonance Extra.
The Radio Art Zone schedule consists of two daily programmes: newly-commissioned 22-hour radio productions created by more than 100 international and local artists, and 2-hour live shows from kitchens in the community.
Additionally Radio Art Zone offers artist residencies, workshops, youth productions plus interventions in public space, opening up participatory opportunities for residents and visitors to the Capital of Culture region.
My latest album Elsewhere is a Negative Mirror will be released as a CD on Greek label Granny Records this summer. The CD and download will be available for pre-order through their Bandcamp very soon.
The album draws together a number of works made from recordings found, taken or gathered in Scotland between the years 2000 and 2020.
When: Saturday, 25th June, 7.30pm
Where: The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, Glasgow.
Tickets: £10 ADV / £13 on the door.
Tickets available from theoldhairdressers.com
Magneto Mori: Vienna is a fragmented sound portrait of the city constructed from found sounds, buried tapes and field recordings. In this de-composition, sounds from Vienna’s past and present are conjoined in a stew of semi-degraded audiotape.
The piece can be heard at 4.30pm on Saturday, 11th June.
The RadioPhonie festival is an event organized by Campus FM and the Center Culturel Bellegarde.
When: 10th-12th June, 2022
Where: Centre Cutlturel Bellegarde, 17, Rue Bellegarde (métro Jeanne d’Arc), Toulouse, France.
Tickets: Free entry
For further details and the full programme see here.
Also on the bill – all the way from Hamburg, Musician, artist and DJ Nika Son – plus Barry Burns and Ollie Pitt duo.
Mark Vernon Will Be Performing A Live Soundtrack To An Extended Cut Of The Film ‘Tape Letters From The Waiting Room’ Directed By Steven McInerney, And Released As An LP On The Psyché Tropes Label At The End Of Last Year.
An Existential Drama Exploring The Universal Themes Of Death And Rebirth ‘Tape Letters From The Waiting Room’ Is An Experiment In Film Archaeology And Magnetic Memory As It Navigates Past Life Experiences. Shifting In Succession From The Mundane To The Metaphysical, The Film Is Composed Of Extant 16mm Found Footage From The Past Century And Features An Original Soundtrack By Mark Vernon Culled From His Collection Of Domestic Tape Recordings, Audio Letters, Found Sounds And Other Lost Voices.
Musician, Artist, Film Composer, Dj After Graduating In Fine Arts At The Art Academy In Hamburg In 2012.
Influenced By Musique Concrète And The Outer Space Of Electronic Music, Her Compositions Are Built From Deformed And Fragmented Fieldrecordings, Interweaving With Analogue Synthesis, Broken Rhythms, Rare Voice Scraps And Modulated Tape.
As A Sound Artist And Film Composer She Became A Dedicated Hunter Of Extraordinary Sounds, While Experimenting With New And Old Technologies In Music. Sounds Of Various Origin Are Translated Into A Very Unusual Musical Language, As If One Watches The Audible.
She Has Played At International Festivals Such As Intonal, Meakusma, IFFR, Klub Katarakt, Nuits Sonores Etc. And Released On Various Labels, Such As Mmodemm, First Terrace Records, Sky Walking, Anti-Ghost Moon Ray And Her Own Imprint Noctui.
In March 2020 Her Debut Album To Eeyore Was Released On The Belgian Label Entr’acte.
A film by Laura Phillips (2022).
Soundtrack by Mark Vernon from the LP ‘Time Deferred’ (Gagarin Records, 2022)
Presented is an abstracted 16mm film made with Orwo UN54 16mm film, hand developed and then overlaid with cameraless filmmaking techniques using washi tape & cyanotype. The recurring motifs of the Blue Marble photo and water draining in a sink with the multiple layering of images can be seen as a reflexive statement about the processing of filmmaking and a playful visual pun about water detritus and waste management. The soundtrack was made by Mark Vernon, a sound artist who works with tactility and intimacy of radio, known for his recycling of field recordings and obsolete media. Both the soundscore and visuals use repetitive rhythms to simulate cyclical systems, be it the water cycles, refuge cycles or ways of looking.