Spindlesongs Installation Stereo Mix

A site-specific open mic with an emphatic atmospheric composition of field recordings and ambiental electroacoustic sounds. The performance took place under a boulder above Bassin du Réaltor artificial lake near Aix en Provence, France during a sound walk at the Acoustic Commons festival. Latitude: 43.4681866. Longitude 5.3301807. 

Composition by beepblip. 
Produced by Cona Institute http://www.cona.si/ (Ljubljana) / Acoustic Commons https://acousticommons.net/
Festival production by Locus Sonus(Aix) & Bureau des Guides (Marseille)

Remembering a Tree / Water

Video: https://vimeo.com/106673473

Sound Test 5.1 is a short sound film produced in collaboration with visual effects artist, Loday Gonpo. A site-specific cinematic artwork designed especially for Tyneside Cinema’s auditoria. For several months the film was surreptitiously inserted into the cinema programme, playing, unannounced, before all main features.
 
The film is a playful riff on more functional speaker tests used by cinema projectionists to check that the sound system is operating correctly. Typical tests check the volume, frequency range and position of each speaker plus any synchronisation or phasing issues between them. Under the guise of a sound test the work explores the mechanics of the 5.1 surround sound system, temporarily breaking the spell of the surround-sound illusion to draw the audience's attention to the location of the speakers within the cinema environment.

The distinctly retro sounding electronic noises used in the sound test are matched perfectly by the backward looking motion graphics that were designed to mirror the way the audio moves through the space in three dimensions.

The film was commissioned by Pixel Palace for Tyneside Cinema. It was produced in 5.1 surround sound with both stereoscopic 3-D and 2-D versions. Sound Test 5.1 featured in Tyneside Cinema’s film programme from February to April, 2014. 


Sound Test 5.1

Rewind (stereo mix)

Thinking Iceberg

The unedited recording of an improvisation with Marie Guilleray and Johan van Kreij at the Zuiderstrandtheater 24.11 of 2014.

Johan van Kreij (electronics) and Marie Guilleray (voice and electronics)

Après La Mer

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - Sonic Psychogeographies II

Silent Sea w. Lizzie Urquhart [02.12.25]

Dark drops (Lygophilia*)

Drops that resonate in the darkness of the caves are a condensed representation of a complex and extreme environment that is still full of mystery and special beauty, and where the geological and biological time seems to unfold in different timeframes. The sound of the water dropping in caves has a strong presence: it breaks the silence. Those little transmit information about the living conditions from above and deeply into the cave, being both a source of food for biological life and the construction material for the geological structures. The audio recordings used for the draft composition are from Planina Lake, which is inhabited also by human fish aka proteus aka olm.
*Lygophilia is a series of research-based artworks initiated in 2017 in a wish to explore love (Gr.: philéō) for darkness (Gr.: lúgē) and unknown dwellers in places inhospitable to humans.

Production of the vinyl (limited edition - print on demand): SubAqua / Zavod Sektor 2018

Special thanks: Zavod Projekt Atol, Pixxelpoint festival, Radio Cona, Rene Rusjan
The event will take place within the framework and organization of the discussion-performance cycle Famous Unknown, which focuses on the important female sound artists from Slovenia. The cycle is financially supported by the City of Ljubljana.

sound work Dark Drops - Črne Kaplje premiered (digital) at RadioCona:wolFMoon, January 2017 
credits
released January 1, 2017
by Robertina Šebjanič, composition by field recording material recorded during the field trip to Planinska jama (cave) and Zelniške jame in Rakov Škocjan, Slovenia.

Dark drops (Lygophilia*)

originally 8 channels (composed together with Bjarni Gunnarsson)

L'imaginaire du parleur (stereo version)

Created for Azimuth 6, here as a stereo version of the original 32-channel version.

'Based on the introduction of Jean-Paul Resweber's book "The Philosophy of Language", the piece explores the ambiguity between the voice that conveys a message and the voice whose acoustic and musical qualities are heard. It seems that when our attention is focused on the musical aspect of the voice, we forget the message it carries, and vice versa. The back and forth between these different levels of listening leaves the listener free to give it its own meaning, if there is one. And this is precisely the question asked by the original text. '

https://www.azimuthfoundation.net

La philosophie du langage

For bookings: meagreresource@hotmail.com

Mark Vernon is a Glasgow based sound artist who works with found tapes and acousmatic presence. His work explores themes of magnetic memory, audio archaeology, voyeurism and nostalgia. 

His solo music projects have been published through labels including Kye, Glistening Examples, Flaming Pines, Misanthropic Agenda, Gagarin, Sonoris, Granny, Psychetropes, Persistence of Sound, Flag Day, Entr’acte, Discrepant, Futura Resistenza, Vice de Forme, Calling Cards and Canti Magnetici. 

He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally.

Sound Test 5.1

Mark Vernon

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