Vernon and Burns

Vernon & Burns are a duo of sound makers who create radio plays, records and concerts through an innovative mix of samples, field recordings, storytelling, found sound, chance procedures and music. They have produced programmes for radio stations internationally and have released records on Felix Kubin's Gagarin Records and in Staalplaat's Mort Aux Vaches series. Skirting around the borders of sound installation, performance and experimental music, they construct mini-hörspiels; complex collages combining antique electronics and toys with modern technology, plunderphonics and novelty songs with electro-acoustic and musique concrete forms. They have been described as sounding like “the work of two BBC staffers having a bit of fun with tapes from the radio archive”. For Tectonics Vernon & Burns will produce a new radiophonic work which will seamlessly incorporate a number of apparently disjunctive sounds, such as Sri Lankan insect recordings, motorway Dictaphone tapes and learn-to-type rhythm records, into an enigmatic narrative.

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