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Sound artist and radio producer. Founder member of radio art collective, Radiophrenia.

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I will be performing a new live set, ‘The Past Imperfect’ at The Listening House (Pollok House) as part of the Sonica festival, tomorrow (Saturday 3rd) at 1pm.

Please note: there has been a change from the advertised date in the brochure – it was originally supposed to be on the Sunday.

Tickets and more information here:

https://sonic-a.co.uk/events/the-past-imperfect-mark-vernon-2 by @mark.vernon.sounds

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At 7pm this evening - Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring us a haunting electroacoustic journey built from Belgrade’s forgotten sonic debris in ‘Volim Beograd’.

At the heart of this soniferous exploration are found tapes salvaged from flea markets, carefully interwoven with field recordings made between 2004 and 2024 and processed on the legendary EMS Synthi 100 at the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade. From this unlikely conjunction, sombre compositional structures emerge. Abandoned sonic relics are transformed into living memory, and fragments of lives on the brink of oblivion become an intimate portrait of a city shaped by upheaval, resilience, and tenderness.

Voices recovered from answering machines, dictaphones, and reel-to-reels surface as pockets of the past, echoing the chaos of lives in their unstoppable flow. Together, they draw listeners into a time-bending archaeology of sound, history, and human presence - set against the post-war vacuum of a society deeply submerged in depleted and corrupted values.

This is a radio version of the USB / book release on Kamizdat earlier this year:
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/volim-beograd

https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/
http://meagreresource.com by @mark.vernon.sounds

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At 10am Mark Vernon revisits the Derby Tape Recording Club to trace a family of club members who emigrated to Australia in the 1960s.

“This programme is a continuation of sorts of a series I produced for Resonance FM back in the year 2002. Each episode was haphazardly constructed from a ramshackle archive of disintegrating open reel tapes bought from a car boot sale in Derby.

This lost episode of The Derby Tape Recording Club came about when a whole new batch of tape recordings were discovered 10 years ago. Martin Stanway, a former member of the club and son of Alf Stanway, the club chairman sent a selection of these recordings that were featured on local station Radio Derby over the course of a week. When I heard about this I of course got in touch and struck up a correspondence. Martin has since generously shared with me all of the recordings he had digitised along with photographs and other ephemera.

Martin and his family emigrated to Australia in 1969 leaving their friends in the club behind but they still kept in touch through taped messages, some of which are included in this piece.”

http://meagreresource.com by @mark.vernon.sounds

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Thanks to Ed Pinsent at The Sound Projector for this wonderful review of Otoconia:

“Something a bit different” is the message on his hand-penned note. He might be referring to his use of the EMS Synthi 100 on this 51:08 single piece, which would indeed be something of a departure for this composer who I associate so closely with magnetic tapes, found sounds, and near-obsolete audio hardware. He’s blended the synth with field recordings in this work, which at one level I am prepared to take as a clinical study of the phenomenon of balance. Otoconia are also called “ear stones” – these microscopic rocks which float around the inner ear of the human being are what keeps us from falling over. Although “sense of balance” might seem hard to define, it is in fact a biological thing, and if I had time I would recount more interesting facts about the vestibular system.

In shrinking himself down to this microscopic size, Vernon aligns himself with his previous records that have attempted similar “Fantastic Voyage” moments, for instance with heating vents, radiators, hospital equipment, and even bathroom plumbing. But now here he is in his own private Proteus, looking for clues about observing the flight of these specks of calcium carbonate. Mark Vernon might be aiming to represent in sound something about this condition, or its effects, but the press release also claims he is doing something to disrupt time – or at any rate “dissolve” it. So far I’m reminded of the Swedish electronic drone maestro Jarl who often seems preoccupied with mental states and visual / audio perceptive mechanisms of the fragile human frame, but Jarl always uses this as a starting point for very disturbing, distressing episodes. Vernon’s Otoconia, conversely, is warm and welcoming, and you can happily enjoy this aesthetic experience without dreading any sudden manifestations of the unknown.

With its minimal pulsations and long-form mode, this is a fitting wreath to lay at the grave of Eliane Radigue. After hearing this one, I was still able to stand upright, but for how long?

Last copies available through my bandcamp: https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/album/otoconia by @mark.vernon.sounds

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3 months ago

The Wire 510,
and the weird and beautiful story about Belgrade.

Our most sincere thanks to writer Spenser Tomson for reviewing our recent release "Volim Beograd" on @kamizdat

The digital album is available at "name your price"; the wonderfully produced book is running out!

Much love.

> https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/volim-beograd

@kamizdat
@thewiremagazine by @mark.vernon.sounds

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Tickets are selling fast for Thursday night’s double bill at the Glad Café – The Radiophrenic Workshop (Elina Bry, Stevie Jones, Timothea Armour, Mark Vernon) present the live radio play - ‘Thalassonic Dynamo’.   

The Radiophrenia team’s first in-house production takes a deep dive into the secretive and murky world of maritime engine audio clubs – where enthusiasts share and swap rare engine recordings as if they were illegal contraband. And for some the obsession goes too far…  

Plus -

'A Love Supreme' by L - a new Radiophrenia commission featuring a 10-piece choir.  

Tickets available through Eventbrite (link in bio).  

Pay what you can: £0 / £5 / £10 / £15 

The Glad Café 
Thursday, 2nd July 
Doors 8pm, first act 8.30pm sharp.  

See you there! by @mark.vernon.sounds

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4 months ago

977: 2026.06.21

patreon campaign progress report:
125 patrons (no change)
70% towards our goal (no change)
want to help? link in bio.

this edition of framework:afield has been produced in scotland by regular contributor @mark.vernon.sounds. For more of mark's work, see http://meagreresource.com. producer's notes:

Mark Vernon - Call Back Carousel: Voyage en Grèce

An audio time-travelogue. A found-sound road trip. A vicarious vacation.

At the heart of this piece is a reel-to-reel tape discovered at a Brussels flea market over twenty years ago – the typewriter printed label sellotaped to the reel reading: ‘Voyage Grèce en 1972’. As the title suggests, it documents a Belgian family’s camping holiday to Greece. One side of the tape contains an audio diary – an unfiltered chronicle of the journey, recorded moment by moment, often from inside the car as the family travels between destinations. Running for nearly three hours on long play, it unfolds with an epic, unhurried intimacy.

The reverse side presents a different format: a two-hour slide-show commentary set against a backdrop of traditional Greek music. Although it soon becomes clear that a wife - referred to only as “bobonne” - and a child are part of the travelling party, we hear only the father’s voice throughout. They never enter the soundscape, not even in passing. Whether microphone-shy, disinterested, or simply denied the floor. Either way their absence on the tape is perplexing.

In the summer of 2020 I had been invited to Brussels to create a new radio work for Radio Picnic’s Musica per la radio series. Over that same summer, I had also planned a family holiday to Greece. Due to the lockdown restrictions in force neither journey took place. This tape I had half forgotten about somehow connected both destinations I was denied. Out of necessity the production of this radiophonic excursion became my way of taking a holiday without travelling anywhere – a sonic souvenir from a vicarious vacation. […]

link to complete notes and sounds in bio.

#frameworkradio #frameworkafield #phonography #fieldrecording #fieldrecordings #radioart #experimentalmusic #patreon #markvernon by @mark.vernon.sounds

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4 months ago

Tonight at 11pm: @framework_radio presented by Patrick Tubin McGinley. This week's edition of framework:afield, entitled 'Call Back Carousel: Voyage en Grèce', has been produced in Scotland by regular contributor @mark.vernon.sounds.

Repeats Tuesday 6am. by @mark.vernon.sounds

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Awesome review on @acloserlisten for Volim Beograd, a collaborative wonder with @mark.vernon.sounds, alongside Devet, tender ride that found its home on @fluuung.

Yes, Richard is right! We have the sister-covers situation here, somehow a match.

Inner dynamics, abstract synchronization, we might never find out how that happened, but I am glad he noticed.

Read here >> https://acloserlisten.com/2026/06/19/manja-ristic-devet-manja-ristic-mark-vernon-volim-beograd/

Double Grateful ❤️ by @mark.vernon.sounds

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Here I am, in Zemun, Belgrade’s famous neighborhood, on my annual summer visit, navigating the relentless Serbian bureaucracy and reflecting on how different realities can coexist.

Once again, the @bandcamp Best Field Recording & Soundscape edition feels like a stronghold — it still stops me in my tracks to see our work alongside such incredible artists.

This recognition carries immense weight among professionals worldwide, but it will take time to become relevant among the local scene, which continues to struggle under economic crisis, oppression, institutional neglect, and widespread censorship. Yet one truth remains: unconditional giving can be very rewarding, and I am thankful that we still feel a strong connection to Belgrade.

This album is our artistic contribution to the transformation Serbian society is undergoing, and I hope its story will find its way to your hearts.

I am deeply grateful to Matthew Blackwell for including us in Bandcamp’s Best Field Recording & Soundscape for May 2026, and to the wonderful publishers at @kamizdat, who understood why this kind of art is necessary in our post-Yugoslav public space.

Please check this one out, you won't regret it!

> https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/volim-beograd

> https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-experimental/the-best-field-recordings-on-bandcamp-may-2026

@mark.vernon.sounds
@kamizdat
@bandcamp by @mark.vernon.sounds

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Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon: Volim Beograd digital/limited edition booklet + USB (KAM082)

Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring us a haunting electroacoustic journey built from Belgrade’s forgotten sonic debris. At the heart of this soniferous exploration are found tapes salvaged from flea markets, carefully interwoven with field recordings made between 2004 and 2024 and processed on the legendary EMS Synthi 100 at the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade. From this unlikely conjunction, sombre compositional structures emerge. Abandoned sonic relics are transformed into living memory, and fragments of lives on the brink of oblivion become an intimate portrait of a city shaped by upheaval, resilience, and tenderness.

Voices recovered from answering machines, dictaphones, and reel-to-reels surface as pockets of the past, echoing the chaos of lives in their unstoppable flow. Together, they draw listeners into a time-bending archaeology of sound, history, and human presence—set against the post-war vacuum of a society deeply submerged in depleted and corrupted values.

released May 4, 2026

Composed by Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon using found tapes, sessions on the EMS Synthi 100, and field recordings made in Belgrade between 2004 and 2024.

Josipa Tadić @sooups , Lana Grahek @lana_g_ · graphic design
Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon · liner notes
Luka Prinčič · mastering
Maruša Hren · binding & print

LISTEN/BUY: link in bio taken in Kamizdat by @mark.vernon.sounds

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Staying in sort of a strange realm on Saturday evening, we are moving on to the UK with a piece called "The drowned villages of the Derwent valley" by Mark Vernon. It will play at 21:00 CET, May 23 on onaironsite.com
"To accommodate the increasing need for fresh water supplies for East Midlands residents in the early 1940’s the decision was made to build a new reservoir by flooding the two villages of Derwent and Ashopton. Residents were relocated to other areas and the new Ladybower reservoir was officially opened in 1945. Bodies from the graveyard of Derwent church were exhumed and reburied in the village of Bamford. Although most of the buildings were demolished the church spire remained as a memorial and was the last remnant of the village to endure before it too was finally submerged beneath the rising waters. To the consternation of many, on one particularly dry summer when water levels dropped the church spire emerged from the depths once more.
“At these times, locals would return to gaze at the eerie spectacle in morbid fascination, as if to remind themselves the village had once been a reality. Some swore they could hear the church bell ringing out across the waters…” *
Amidst concerns for safety the spire was dynamited in 1947 and the bell from the church was removed and later installed in the new church of St. Philips in Chaddesden, Derby in 1955 where it remains to this day. A recording I made of the Derwent bell in its new location provides the main source material for this composition along with field recordings taken around the present-day site of Ladybower reservoir.
Silt has covered the remains of the buildings of Ashopton village meaning that they will never re-emerge even in the event of low water levels. At the centre of the village was a Methodist chapel which was finally demolished in 1943. The final hymn to be sung before its doors closed forever was “The Day is Dying in the West”. Recordings of this hymn and readings of the lyrics have also been incorporated into the piece.
* Quote from ‘The lost villages of the Derwent Valley’ by Helen Moat. #sunkencity #WaterReservoirs #unitedkingdom #soundart #ArtRadio taken in United Kingdom by @mark.vernon.sounds

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