Confabulations

HYPNOTIC SLEEP - Wiset Mi MSTR01

“This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards, and forwards… it takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel, it’s called the carousel. It lets us travel the way a child travels - around and around, and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved.” 
 (Don Draper, Mad Men)

Call Back Carousel is an audio time-travelogue, a slideshow of the mind’s eye - projecting Kodachrome memories directly into the listeners’ mind by means of sound alone. It is a way of travelling without ever having to leave the home. A vicarious vacation for the imagination. Pure audio escapism.

Each episode is based on a found tape of a pre-recorded slideshow commentary. Most of these tapes were made by amateur tape recording enthusiasts and hobbyist photographers of the 60s and 70s. Their recorded commentaries would at one time have been used in conjunction with a sequence of 35mm slides but only the taped voices now remain. The recordings themselves come from my own archive of found reel-to-reel tapes that I have collected over the past twenty years.

Scotland, 1971

CC02

@nowherearu @markvernon

From Mal de Débarquement by Elen Huynh & Mark Vernon
https://chosescontraires.bandcamp.com/album/mal-de-d-barquement

Elen Huynh & Mark Vernon - To Roar or to Whisper

Audio Archaeology Series Volume 3: Brest

Sheet Erosion is the third episode in a series of works based around ideas of audio archaeology and found sounds. The setting this time is the city of Brest in France.

The piece is comprised of field recordings made in early 2020 during the storms Ciara and Desmond plus a batch of found open-reel tape recordings dating from the 70s and 80s. The tapes include domestic home recordings but mostly document the recordist, Michel’s tastes in music and radio programmes of the time. Daily life bleeds into these lo-fi recordings of radio and TV shows. Captured with a mic in front of a speaker rather than directly cabled, ambiguous activities can be heard in the background; babies crying, feedback, chairs scraping and muffled conversations.

In the composition family histories and musical tastes are transposed over a more contemporary soundscape of Brest. Over-saturated tape distorts time as well as sounds. Speeds change. Chronologies become confused. Different instances in time are blended and fused. What seeps through these chronological crevices are events and incidents unmoored from linear time taking place in a chimerical non-space.

Sound Art, Radio Art, Field Recording, Found Sound, Musique Concrete, Electroacoustic, Experimental, Soundscape, Radiophonic

The Past Imperfect

[0001]

RIVER – Contacto
Garland of Shame – Eterna
Asunder – Lovefear, Fatshaudi
Gun scene / Your camelot –  deer park
Mirror Image – Howard Shore 
Whitewash – Buckethead (live in San Fransisco, 2003)
View from a glide after red snake smoke – Forma Norte
UNDERWORLD – SsalivaSonar – De Cos
??? – Johan Nilsson
Ved Skaaret – Emil F
morning dew – nykolaes, Daniël Paul
You Everything – Loke Rahbek, Frederik Valentin
Everything You See (Is Your Own) – Duster
Shining Armor – Chanel Beads
JUMZZZ – Loukeman
Dust Beam – ML Buch

[0001] – 'guitar music'

SATA is a french DJ and sound artist who creates textured compositions through digital micro-edits and magnetic tape fragments. Blending sound art, electroacoustic techniques, and rhythmic elements, he brings together opposing forces in dusty and personal soundscapes. His music oscillates between industrial, glitch, and musique concrète. janelas B2100 explores what remains of intimacy. Initially written for acousmonium performance, the piece is composed of sonic debris, echoes of a secretly archived past. The distorted composition is woven from cries and lamentations, a back-and-forth marked by imperfect absences and presences—a way of expressing outwardly the unspoken shames within, through voices that have lost their words. Dedicated to Maria da Gloria.

SATA - Janelas B2100

Sélection Prix Art sonore

Mark Vernon
A Loop Within A Loop
33’32, autoproduction (Grande Bretagne)

Le métro de Glasgow forme un réseau à double sens circulaire et con-centrique. La pièce reconstitue l’atmosphère de ce réseau  par une ex-ploration des circularités, répétitions et mouvements qui l’animent. L’accumulation d’enregistrements, d’interviews d’anciens conducteurs de train, de voix et de sons qui bougent et rebondissent, vont et vien-nent, s’amplifient et disparaissent  dessine une carte sensible des lieux  – traduisant leur obscurité insondable et la lumière au bout du tunnel.

Mark Vernon vit à Glasgow. A travers ses œuvres sonores et radiophoniques, il explore les notions d’archéologie audio, de mémoire magnétique et de nostalgie Au cœur de sa pratique se trouve une fascination pour l’intimité de la voix radio, le son ambiant et la réappropriation des enregistrements trouvés.
http://meagreresource.com

Script : http://phonurgia.fr/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/23_Mark-Vernon_A-Loop-Within-A-Loop_2_Mark_Vernon_-_A_Loop_Within_A_Loop_-_Transcript-1722077847-1.pdf

Mark Vernon _ A Loop Within A Loop

Brilliant mix here from Paris based artist Elen Huynh, one we absorbed on headphones this past week walking around sunny Melbourne. Elen guides us through a trip of contemporary modern classical and freeform avant-garde compositions with seasoned golden ears for field recording and natural sound elements. Elen hosts a regular show on LYL Radio and has worked with artists such as Cucina Povera, Broshuda, Malvern Brume and Glasgow's own Mark Vernon. She has also been involved with projects for STROOM and Knekelhuis along with an excellent collaborative release that spawned from her LYL show and was featured on our very first NTS show :) - https://chosescontraires.bandcamp.com/album/va-les-maux-libres

"A reflection on doubt and aporia, this inner contradiction that we are sometimes confronted with. When things are beyond our control and we find ourselves at an impasse. Our desire to suspend time then becomes our only escape." - Elen Huynh Oct 2024

Forecast 074: Elen Huynh

LABYRINTH

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https://soundcloud.com/j222v for https://soundcloud.com/amdience

www.retreatradio.net/lost-in-transition

Listen 24/7 at www.retreatradio.net

Tracklist:
mike & lila ramani - should be
the books - all you need is a wall
mark william lewis - josh, this is lin, i accidentally left my documents in your car yesterday
ctm & august rosenbaum - angel
dntel - umbrella
gavin vanaelst - pizzeria la laterna
zaumne - each new adventure
balam acab - fragile hope
jouska - blue like the sun
hooverphonic - barabas
sunchaser - afterburn
narrow head - snoozy
ccfx - 2tru (foreign interior dub mix)
treasury of puppies - en blick i blicken
jabu, rakhi singh, sebastian gainsborough - all night
mori mori - outcasts
movulango - none of your concern
you’ll never get to heaven - eye soul and hand
wet leg - loving you
luc de vos - valium

Lost In Transition #21 w/ Jente Waerzeggers (24/01/25)

Majnun

From the album 'Unforced Errors' on Vice de Forme.

Music & mixing by Mark Vernon
Sonopetry& mixing by @ilaria_boffa

Sonopoem - 'Ode for Complexity' by Ilaria Boffa

'Ode for Complexity

And what’s next? Next roots to eradicate, cultures to dominate, archetypes to steal. Cyborg and Pseudo.
Assume mediocrity. No phenomenon is special, privileged, exceptional or superior.
Assume the principle, ‘if an item is drawn at random from one of several sets or categories, it's likelier to come from the most numerous category than from any one of the less numerous categories’.
And yet, the probability of being mediocre is increasing. The service of thinking is at risk.
Too-much-ness of counter-intuition. It’s hard to do difficult things.

*‘E’ difficile fare le cose difficili:
parlare al sordo,
mostrare la rosa al cieco.
Bambini, imparate a fare le cose difficili:
dare la mano al cieco,
cantare per il sordo,
liberare gli schiavi che si credono liberi’.

Clouds are moving fast. They’re shifting perspective. Carry me with you.'

* Nursery rhyme by Gianni Rodari, late Italian writer, especially children’s literature, pedagogist, journalist and poet.

It’s difficult to do difficult things: 
To talk to a deaf,
to show a rose to a blind. 
Children! Learn to do difficult things:
take the blind by hand, 
sing for the deaf, 
set free slaves who believe themselves free.

Nexotic Dislocation (with Ilaria Boffa)

SATA invite Elen - Əverything(?) Not Yet (Mars 2025)

Pour cette nouvelle émission, j’ai le grand plaisir d’inviter ELEN — une DJ dont j’admire profondément la sincérité et la richesse musicale. J’ai une confiance totale en ses sélections, et pourtant, elle parvient toujours à me surprendre. Une heure de set aux platines, entre précision et intuition, à son image. Trop heureuse de partager ça avec vous.

ASIAN CORE INVITE ELEN - 25 Juillet 2025

The term ‘tape-sponding’ means, quite literally, correspondence by tape. As tape recorders became more widely available there developed a trend for communication by tape. Special 3″ reels were produced with designs that featured slogans like ‘Links Absent Friends’ or ‘Voice Letter’. They included space for an address and a stamp on the box like a postcard. It was an excellent way for families and friends separated by great distances to keep in touch. These ‘letters on tape’ were sent all over the world. There is something far more personal about hearing the actual voices of loved ones, the subtle nuances, inflections and idiosyncrasies of the voice that a pen and paper couldn’t begin to emulate. For a time there were also ‘tape-sponding’ clubs – people who had never met would record messages to each other sending them around the country like pen-pals. Sometimes round-robin tapes would be sent around a circle, each person adding their message as the tape was passed along.

Tapesponding excerpts

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Elen Huynh & Mark Vernon - To Roar or to Whisper

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