Sonograph Sound Effects Series Volume 2: Public and Domestic Plumbing and Sanitation (CCP007)

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Mark Vernon presents the second volume of his Sonograph Sound Effects Series – the follow up to the unexpectedly popular ‘Sounds of the Modern Hospital’ LP. This time the focus is on sounds of plumbing and sanitation: drainpipes, plugholes, leaks, squeaky taps and cisterns.

Vernon has recorded many of the sounds from unusual perspectives, in extreme close-up scenarios, using contact mics or small binaural microphones to get into tiny inaccessible spaces. There is also a particular focus on plumbing on-board vehicles and vessels in motion. The intention here is to reveal the marvellous within the most mundane and every day of sounds.

The record masquerades as a collection of generic archetypal sounds whilst in actuality it revels in the specific and unique – some of the most idiosyncratic and characterful instances of such sounds. No two gurgles are alike.

As an avid collector of sound effects records these obsolete discs have gradually taken on new meaning for Vernon as unintended audio time capsules. As their use value has decreased their value as historical audio documents has grown. To produce a sound effects LP in the age of digital audio libraries is an anachronistic gesture intended to elevate what purports to be a generic collection of recordings intended for functional use to the level of an artwork.

The album is in part a homage to classic ranges of sound effects albums such as the BBC Sound Effects Library - even down to the utilitarian design and functional descriptions of the sounds (a key aspect of this release). Such generic collections of sounds were intended to fulfil the needs of professional and amateur broadcasters, filmmakers and theatre producers. However, through careful selection and sequencing it is also intended that this record works as a linear sound composition.

>>> Utilitarian unsounds for undisclosed purposes <<<

All Recordings made by Mark Vernon
Sleeve Design and Artwork by Marc Baines

Sonograph Sound Effects Series Volume 2: Public and Domestic Plumbing and Sanitation (excerpt)

Mark Vernon - Spiral Malaise
Remnant Kings, Cassette (C45, 50/50)
Cosmovisión Registros, 2017

Mark Vernon - Spiral Malaise

From the latest Vernon & Burns tape release 'From the Cable to the Grave'. Available now from Akashic Records:
https://akashicrecords1.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-cable-to-the-grave

From the Cable to the Grave

Pocari Sweat



A second extract from a radio collage first performed at the Sonors Festival, Nantes (2010) inspired by an archive of old radio programme scripts. 

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didufindher - SUE ZUKI

Kalamankalpea - Cucina Povera

This sound collage is made from recordings of my Granny who suffered from dementia. The abstract sound scape is collected using different sources in her house after she passed away. I´m interested in capturing the physical sounds from an empty space as it reflects on a life that´s no longer present within this space. At the same time, I´m recreating these sounds that ones existed.

I Keep Losing My Eyebrows

To explore sonic territories, using unusual ways to make music has been Cultivated Sound's main focus. We are honored to present this mix as a gift for the listeners. 

Cucina Povera is a solo project from Finnish-born Luxembourgish vocalist-synthesist Maria Rossi (formerly of Tarantula and Luxos) who experiments with layered vocals, effects and found sound. Her work has recently been featured on BBC Late Junction and The Wire and she is playing her debut Canadian and European gigs to close the chapter of her second solo release - Zoom. It is a stark collection of simple melodies harmonized with a looping pedal and recorded into a pocket recorder. There are no instruments, apart from a clip top glass bottle picked up in a hardware shop for the making of Sima. Maria creates unique worlds using sound, creating an amorphous and surreal language.

Cucina Povera 
@cucinaPovera 

[Recorded playing a Boss RE20 space echo pedal]
Tracklist:
Cucina Povera and Haron - Riffittelya
Cucina Povera and Ben Vince - Strong Slow City Lights
New World Science - Movement 3
Cucina Povera and Haron - Untitled
Susannah Stark - Saturn
Drippee - Dub 1
NEET - Pytagoraan Vasara
Total Leatherette - Operation Spanner
Meteor/Rodeo - Veggie Discs
Ailie Ormston - AA1 A32
Nova - When Will It Be Over? (feat. Theta)
Unknown - The Man Is Out
Lord Tusk - Got To Go

See full article feature and interview on Cultivated Sound - Cucina Povera
https://cultivatedsound.com/063-Cucina-Povera

Cultivated Sound Sessions - CSS063: Cucina Povera [Hybrid Set]

Cucina Povera

lose yourself and be born again / down the valley and up the hill / neither one so you hold still / in non-existence you just kill / for nothing // choose yourself and be chosen again / crown your abbey and narrow the street / frown on stairways but buried a creed / mother lungs on smoking guns / will feed our approval on glamorous heat / and devastating wisdom of drops on my sheet// lose yourself and i'm lost again / down the valley and into the hill / down the valley turns your double-mill / but you're not the only one / spinnning around / but you're killing everyone in your head / for nothing, again.

murderer

Written and recorded for 'Private Dreams & Public Nightmares' at Westflügel Leipzig (07.19 / 08.19).

House

expérimentations avec moteur, caisson, amplification. en résidence à inquiet, montréal, décembre 2012.

experimentations with motor, woodbox, amplification. in residency at inquiet, montréal, december 2012. 

quelques aspérités

Vernon & Burns are a duo of sound makers who create radio plays, records and performances through an innovative mix of samples, field recordings, voice and music. In addition to record releases on Gagarin Records, Staalplaat, a cassette on Akashic and two LPs with Lied Music they have produced radio plays and features for stations including VPRO, Resonance FM and WFMU.

Pocari Sweat

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