Vernon & Burns

Summer School Presentation

2011-06-18T04:35:00.000-07:00

Immediacy, intimacy, interiority & idiosyncrasy:
a radio collage by Vernon & Burns

For Summer School at the Transmission Gallery Vernon & Burns present an illustrated talk/listening exercise about some aspects of the creative use of radio.

To listen or download use the player or visit the link below:

http://www.archive.org/details/ImmediacyIntimacyInteriorityIdiosyncrasy

New LP 'Lost Lake' on Shadazz Records

2011-03-16T08:22:00.000-07:00

Lost Lake sees the return of the collaborative project between radio art duo Vernon & Burns (Mark Vernon and Barry Burns) and Lied Music (Luke Fowler and John W Fail). It is a sequel to the long-sold out LP Lied Music vs.Boy-Band Tax Returns (released on Ultra Eczema, 2006). This LP merges musique concrète compositional approaches with absurdist improvisational strategies. The album showcases their tendencies towards primitive melodies with dissonant underbellies, carefully sculpted into liminal narratives. A series of sporadic improvised sessions using a diverse array of sound-making instruments (amplified toys and objects, guitar, analogue synths, percussion, squeeze box, field recordings and found tapes) were subsequently manipulated, tortured and caressed, both individually and collectively, into a series of highly idiosyncratic song-forms and sound collages.

www.liedmusic.co.uk

Perpendicular to love by Mark Vernon

The Silver Smokescreen

2010-06-02T03:41:00.001-07:00

The Silver Smokescreen:

A Silent Film for the Radio

By Vernon & Burns

“When the devil pulls the strings, all the world must dance...”

Constructing an episodic narrative from silent movie intertitles, Vernon and Burns translate grand melodramatic gestures and deadpan pratfall pantomime into the audio realm. Hand-tinted frames of sound, under-cranked audio slapstick and sepia-soaked expressionism for the ear are projected onto the cinema screen of the mind's eye.

Produced by Vernon & Burns during a residency at WORM studios, Rotterdam. First performed live as part of ‘Popular Noise for the Masses’, March 2010. First broadcast on Cafe Sonore, VPRO Radio 6, June 12th 2010. Narrated by Giles Bailey.

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. Performed across Europe, their eclectic live act encompasses everything from ventriloquism and magic to music hall and comedy. They have produced work for radio stations including the BBC, VPRO, Resonance FM, WFMU and The Audible Picture Show. Recent releases include an LP on Gagarin Records and a CD in Staalplaat’s Mort Aux Vaches series.

To Listen or download:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheSilverSmokescreen

Fowler, Vernon & Burns live at Le Drapeau Noir.

2010-05-07T03:20:00.000-07:00

A live concert of improvised electronic and sample based music featuring Luke Fowler (Lied Music, Rude Pravo), Barry Burns (Vernon & Burns) and Mark Vernon (Hassle Hound, Vernon & Burns). Sensitive improvised sound collages drowning in a bath of electroacoustic beauty. Le Drapeau Noir, Glasgow, 2nd May 2010.

To listen or download:

http://www.archive.org/details/FowlerVernonBurnsLiveAtLeDrapeauNoir

Unacknlowledged Legislators of the Word

2010-04-11T12:41:00.000-07:00

Hello. If you have made it here you have probably have in your hands a sheet containing a visual representation of our found sound poem. To hear the piece, and follow along, please click on the link below:

http://www.archive.org/details/UnacknowledgedLegislatorsOfTheWord