Mondo Vernon & Burns - Thursday, 14th April

Thursday, 14th April from 8pm. Tickets £7 available in advance or on the door.

The Old Hairdressers, Renfield Lane, Glasgow

Mondo Vernon and Burns – A history of Mondo films viewed through the distorting lens of Vernon and Burns: a queasy combination of visual savagery with audio sweetness. A special one-off screening event as part of the Old Hairdressers Fantom Cinema. The film was edited by Vilte Vaitkute and features a narrated essay by Anna McLauchlan.

“A film so debased should not only be restricted to people over 18 years of age, it should also be rejected by anyone with a modicum of self-respect and by all nations that refuse contaminated and rotten merchandise.” - review of Mondo Cane by the Catholic Film Office of France

“I fear you will never persuade the Americans to like Jacopetti – they hate moral ambiguity and their black and white Protestantism clashes head on into the catholic relativism built into every frame of the Mondo Cane films.” - JG Ballard

“A catalogue of horrors…..a hymn to death and mutilation, embellished with a shrug and a giggle.” – Monthly Film Bulletin

Plus Joe Howe will present ‘Era Burp Mesh / Rumba Sphere / Re: Bum Phrase / Mr Rebus Heap’, which is an algorythmically sequenced re-edit of Kon Ichikawa’s 1956 anti-war film, The Burmese Harp made using Max MSP – and the human-machine music of Anneke Kampman.

Advance tickets available here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2526484

Renditions of the Beat: A Resuscitation Recital

For Tectonics 2014 Vernon & Burns will attempt CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Radiophonics) – a composition for Fetal Doppler, CPR training aid and found tape. Condition: not serious, unstable.

7.30pm, Friday 9th May, 2014.
Tectonics festival, St. Andrews in the Square, Glasgow.

Vernon & Burns contributed an article to the recent interactive digital publication, Kling Klang, produced for GI by the Queens Park Railway Club. Inspired by mix tapes, compilations and friends sharing music this publication offers an insight into the highly subjective relationships artists, performers and writers have with music and sound:
Queens Park Music Club, Volume one: Kling Klang.

A related audio mix is available here: https://soundcloud.com/vernonandburns/klingklang

Sinthome, The Poetry Club, July 4th

SWG 3, Glasgow, 4th July, 7-11pm, £5 

Music, spoken word and video with... 

Katherine Sowerby, Vernon & Burns, Michael Angus, Lauren Wells, Mark Lyken and John Butler.

Children of Toasted Cheese

 Now available to listen online or download - the studio version of our live radiophonic performance commisioned by Tramway, Glasgow.

Data for the Doubtful at Tramway

Vernon & Burns present:  
Data for the Doubtful Part 7: The Children of Toasted Cheese 

Venue: Tramway 
Date: Friday 12 October – Saturday 13 October 
Location: Tramway 1 
Price: £10/ £7 

A new radiophonic work commissioned by Tramway, Glasgow. A live soundscape constructed from interviews with a number of different people about their dreams and sleeping habits, readings from Burns' longstanding dream diary and accompanying sound effects and music. The piece explores the internal space of the subconscious and the logic of dreams. 

Part of a triple bill of performances also including Lisbeth Gruwez | Voetvolk and Zoe Irvine and Pippa Murphy. 

www.tramway.org

The tune the old cow died of

Vernon & Burns prove to be popular with Belgian bovines...



"The tune the old cow died of" by Pacôme Béru & Yann Leguay

A listening session for cows , played on a simple turntable and removable loudspeaker which took place in a pastoral landscape reminiscent of old Flemish paintings. The title comes from the Vernon & Burn's record, played during the performance, which is also an English expression taken from an old rhyme:

"There was an old man, and he had an old cow,
But he had no fodder to give her,
So he took up his fiddle and played her the tune -
`Consider, good cow, consider,
This isn't the time for the grass to grow.
Consider, good cow, consider."

A field-performance realized on june the 20, 2009 at 4:43 am , near by : 50° 14' 24.05" N 4° 53' 31.22" E (East-Belgium)

For more details:

http://www.phonotopy.org/tune.html

Summer School Presentation

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

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

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.

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

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