@mikro-mikrob: (Objectively, the patient sounds better than it should follow from the symptoms) - Yes, nasty cough though!

mark is that record still for sale? ( I want one)

Hello Mark. These recordings are amazing, great job! Will it be possible to purchase a digital version of the album in future?

GRFTPS009
@carlos-ferreira-sounds & @almanacs - La Deriva
PRE-ORDER > limited edition cassette / digital - now on bandcamp
https://giraffetapes.bandcamp.com/album/la-deriva

video for "Isabel, no llores" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=op6WMKomMtQ&t=16s

La Deriva

B3. Carlos Ferreira & Almanacs - Isabel, No Llores [GRFTPS009]

Commissioned by Brandon Labelle for the Listening Biennial, Berlin
https://listeningbiennial.net/about

“Le chien qui pleure” (the crying dog) is the first collaboration between Mélia Roger and Antoine Chessex. The piece proposes an ominous montage of different human and nonhuman voices creating a detailed sonic situation where the biosphere merged with the technosphere resulting in an uncanny, and possibly fatal encounter.
Piano by Tamriko Kordzaia. 
Mixed by Mélia Roger

LE CHIEN QUI PLEURE - Mélia Roger & Antoine Chessex

By David Fulford and Mark Vernon.

Out now on Gagarin Records. Available to buy here:
https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/time-deferred

Followers of the artist Mark Vernon will note a subdued and pensive mood on this new record. Monochrome and sepulchral, these tracks are in a minor key, a key which opens the door to a damp cellar of the imagination. Too-many legged spiders crawl over dusty violins. Time lurches, loops and echoes like excursions on slow motion railways in reverse. Concrète noir sombre séances for non-believers. Tauntological voices from the past provoke us. Half guessed ghosts, magnetic phantoms from funereal-to-reel tape recordings. The sibilant persistence of the deceased evokes the exhausted dread of waiting for a medical test result. Enigmatic messages thrown to the werewolves with nothing but cheap medication and some breathing exercises for support. 

Caution: this record can cause dreamless nights. 

“Psychedelic visions, blackouts and blinding lights reveal an unusual, sick, and feverish musicality... here the gods come back from the dead only to ensure us an existence nurtured by the freezing rays of a black sun.” 

Massimiliano Busti, Blow Up (Feb 2022)

Time Deferred

Athanasia

Uvila

(guinæpig // rhoya)
image by @rhoya
music by guinæpig
guinæpig art by https://www.instagram.com/catawump/
Lyrics and vocals by @rhoya

Ineffable Ruin: Retrograded

‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital' - Volume 1 in the Sonograph Sound Effects Series - is a long-playing sound effects record in a limited edition of 250 copies. The record was produced by Mark Vernon during a two year period as digital artist in residence at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, Scotland.

The sounds featured on the LP were recorded in several different hospital departments including: Anaesthesiology, the Clinical Simulation Centre, Health Records, Outpatients reception, the Laboratories, Ophthalmology, Oral and Maxillofacial, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, the Mail Room, the Neonatal Unit, Pharmacy and the Renal Unit. In addition to Forth Valley Royal, recordings were also made in Stirling and Falkirk Community Hospitals. Thanks to all staff and patients in NHS Forth Valley Hospitals for their help and co-operation.

All recordings by Mark Vernon 2011 – 2013. Sleeve design by Marc Baines. Label artwork by Keppie Design.

This project was supported by Creative Scotland and NHS Forth Valley.

Available to buy here: https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/sounds-of-the-modern-hospital

Track listing:

Side A
1		Full Blood Count Analyzer 	
2		Automated Instrument Rinse System 	
3		MRI Scanner 	
4		Anaesthetic Machine 	
5		METI Human Patient Simulator 	
6		SimMan Essential Mannequin 	
7		Cardiac Monitor 	
8		Lee Silverman Voice Treatment 	
9		Haemoglobin A1C Analyzer 	 
10		Anaesthetic Machine 	
11		Infusion Pump (Alaris Plus) 	
12		Heater Fan 	
13		Phacoemulsifier 	
14		Robotic Pharmacy 	
15		CT Scanner 	
16		Pharmacy Label Printer 
17		Dialysis Machine 	
18 		Draeger Oxylog 3000 Plus

Side B 	
19		METI Human Patient Simulator 	
20		Orthopantomograph OP 2000 	
21		Helium Cooler for MRI Scanner 	
22		Coagulation Analyzer 	 
23		METI HPS Mannequin 	
24		Ophthalmology 	 
25		Sysmex SP1000i 07) Automated Slide-maker  
26		AGV (Automatic Guided Vehicle) 
27		Ultrasound Scanner 	
28		Operating Theatre 	
29		Beckman Coulter Access 2 Analyzer 	
30		Geiger Counter (Berthold LB124) 
31		Automated Mailroom (OPEX Mail Matrix) 	
32		Wall Mounted Suction Unit 	
33		Dialysis Machine

Sounds of the Modern Hospital LP (Side A)

Far from the extended still lifes and mises en abîmes of their acclaimed Penultimate Press debut A Sunset for Walter (PP43, 2019), Noetinger & Pateras’ 15 Coruscations weaves frequencies & stirs data into an agitated series of deft psychoacoustic miniatures. Employing electronics as a deformed mirror reflecting joyous lacerations & interweavings, 15 Coruscations borrows from both brut & skilled musical practises, emerging from the current despair to blister light across the moribund horizontalities of post-surveillance musical product. 

Jérôme Noetinger (Marseille, 1966) is one of the most respected composer/performers of electronic music working today. Discovering the ReVox B77 as a powerful tool for live electro-acoustic creation in the mid 1980s, he has developed a singular performance language unmatched in agility & invention. 

Anthony Pateras (Melbourne/Naarm, 1979) works at an evolving nexus of notation, improvisation, electro-acoustics + keyboard instruments. Active since the late 90s as both a composer of concert music and independent bandleader, he has created a unique body of work across multiple genres & contexts. 

Noetinger & Pateras’ working relationship began in 2009 in the Thymolphthalein quintet (Editions Mego, 2011), extending through to the development of the 6-channel tape part for Pateras’ percussion sextet Beauty Will Be Amnesiac Or Will Not Be At All (Immediata, 2017). Establishing their duo in 2018 with A Sunset For Walter, they have performed across Europe in both piano/tape and pure electronic configurations. 15 Coruscations is their latest testament to their quest for the unheard, deploying tape, computer, samplers, garbage, environmental recordings, lo-fi electronics, hi-fi circuitry and a deep love of all things concrète.

Jérôme Noetinger & Anthony Pateras - Coruscation 1

Fragment met communicerende klopkevers in een dode boomstam. Opgenomen met 2x diy piezo contact microfoons via Olympus LS-5 naar Zoom F6 en Aquarian H2A hydrofoon in contact modus.

Fragment with communicating deathwatch beetles in a dead tree trunk. Recorded with 2x diy piezo contact microphones via Olympus LS-5 to Zoom F6 and Aquarian H2A hydrophone in contact mode.

Klopkevers in stam / Deathwatch beetles in trunk

live set - ertad - 15.02.24 - tbilisi

The B side of Dissolution. LP/digital release on Glistening Examples, November 11th, 2016.  25 LPs were special edition, with 35 mm slides embedded in the clear vinyl. Copies of the regular LPs are still available on Forced Exposure
https://www.forcedexposure.com/SearchResult.html?SearchType=Basic&Type=artist&Key=olivia%20block

DISSOLUTION B

poem by Imam al-Shafi’i


دع الأيام تفعل ما تشاء *** وطب نفسا إذا حكم القضاء
ولا تجزع لحادثة الليالي *** فما لحوادث الدنيا بقاء
وكن رجلا على الأهوال جلدا *** وشيمتك السماحة والوفاء
وإن كثرت عيوبك في البرايا *** وسرك أن يكون لها غطاء
يغطى بالسماحة كل عيب *** وكم عيب يغطيه السخاء
ولا حزن يدوم ولا سرور *** ولا بؤس عليك ولا رخاء
ولا ترج السماحة من بخيل *** فما في النار للظمآن ماء
ورزقك ليس ينقصه التأني *** وليس يزيد في الرزق العناء
إذا ما كنت ذا قلب قنوع *** فأنت ومالك الدنيا سواء
ومن نزلت بساحته المنايا *** فلا أرض تقيه ولا سماء
وأرض الله واسعة ولكن *** إذا نزل القضا ضاق الفضاء
دع الأيام تغدر كل حين *** ولا يغني عن الموت الدواء

Let days go forth and do as they please
And remain firm when settled is the Decree

Don’t be afraid of what happens by night
For the affairs of this world are not to last

And be a man, strong in the face of calamities
And let your nature be that of kindness and honesty

If your faults become too much in front of the people
And you wish that they were to be concealed,

Then know that kindness covers all faults
And how many faults are kept hidden by kindness!

No sadness lasts forever, nor any happiness
And you shall not remain in poverty, or any luxury

Generosity cannot be hoped from the miserly
For no water exists in the Fire for the thirsty

Your provision will not be decreased due to life’s delays
And it cannot be increased due to your haste

If, in your heart, you possess contentment
Then you and those who possess the world are equal

And for him upon whose horizon death descends,
No earth can offer him protection, nor any sky

Indeed, the earth of Allah is certainly vast
But if decree descends, then the world constricts

Let days be the ones that betray you at all times
For no cure can avail a person of death

BedouinDrone - Da'il Ayyaam دع الأيام

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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, Entr’acte and Canti Magnetici. He co-runs and curates Glasgow art radio station, Radiophrenia and has produced programmes for stations internationally.

Sounds of the Modern Hospital LP (Side A)

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