Live soundtrack to ‘Tape Letters…’ at the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow

Live at the Old Hairdressers, Glasgow – 8pm, 23rd April, 2022.
Tickets £10

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.