Magneto Mori: Vienna, by Mark Vernon

Magneto Mori: Vienna

by Mark Vernon

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mikehoolboom In this suite of exquisitely arranged miniatures, the artist recycles everyday moments - chiefly convos and traffic - subjects them to various analog derangements (like burying the tapes), then carefully rearranges the broken, shredded samples, producing a chamber set of quiet power.

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1.	Non-existent Days 07:03	buy track
2.	A Fade In is a Summoning 05:53	buy track
3.	Waiting in the Lines of My Hand 04:00	buy track
4.	Neulichtenfelger Straße 05:14	buy track
5.	An Alibi Clock 06:04	buy track
6.	Halb Zugegen 05:26	buy track
7.	Better Never Than Late 02:03	buy track
8.	Bedeckter Himmel f5.6 02:00	buy track
9.	Strips of Time Cut to Size 05:21	buy track
10.	The Periphery Defines the Centre 06:23	buy track
11.	Nascent Branches 02:11	buy track

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Mark Vernon "Magneto Mori: Vienna"
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Magneto Mori: Vienna is a fragmented sound portrait of the city constructed from found sounds, buried tapes and field recordings. In this de-composition sounds from Vienna’s past and present are conjoined in a stew of semi-degraded audiotape.

Using a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder sounds from around the city were recorded direct to tape over a two-day period. This tape was then cut into fragments and buried in a hole in the ground with a number of tacky souvenir ‘Vienna’ fridge magnets that erased the portions of the tape that they come into contact with. After several days steeped in the muddy earth of a Viennese garden the remaining audio fragments were exhumed, washed, dried and spliced back together in random order. The deliberate distressing and erosion of these present-day recordings results in artificially degraded sounds that fast-forward the effects of time, disrupting the perceived chronology of this audio matter.

During the tapes’ interment old cassette, Dictaphone and reel-to-reel tapes were gathered from local flea markets and additional field recordings were made around the city. The addition of these found sounds stretches the timescale from just the short period spent making location recordings to perhaps as far back as fifty years ago. All of these elements provided the raw materials for a radiophonic composition that represents a portrait of Vienna in both place and time; an archaeological excavation of found sounds, lost fragments, buried memories and magnetic traces. Presented here are the sounds that endured…

Magneto Mori: Vienna was originally commissioned by Kunstradio for broadcast on ORF Ö1, Austria.
This is a reworked version created specifically for this release.
All recordings made or found in Vienna between October and November, 2018.

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Produced with the support of Creative Scotland’s Open Project Funding Programme.

Special thanks to Elisabeth Zimmermann, Angélica Castelló, Jérôme Noetinger, Lindsay Perth, Barry Burns, Ian Middleton and Andreas Zaunseder.

Layout by Vito Battista

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released June 17, 2021

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Mark Vernon Glasgow, UK

Mark Vernon is a sound artist and radio producer based in Glasgow, Scotland. His solo albums include: 'Static Cinema' (Entr'acte 2012), 'Sounds of the Modern Hospital' (meagre resource 2014), 'Things That Were Missed in the Clamour for Calm'(3Leaves 2015) and 'Lend an Ear, Leave a Word' (Kye 2016). He also records and performs in the duo Vernon & Burns (Gagarin, Staalplaat, Ultra Eczema). ... more

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