Mark Jenkins (Moog, ARP, Korg, Delta Music Research, Waldorf and Quasimidi synthesizers, Apple computers, virtual synthesizers, digital and analog effects, loops, vocoders, electric guitars, electric violin and percussion)
Influenser
Synthesizer and space music, ambient, world and minimalist composers, progressive rock, classical and folk music.
Science fiction including Iain M. Banks, Larry Niven, Babylon 5 and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Science subjects including cosmology and space physics.
Music by Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Richard Pinhas & Heldon, Yanni, John Tesh, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, Can, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Deep Forest, Ashra, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster, Neu!, Harmonia, La Dusseldorf
Låter som
Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jan Hammer, Mike Oldfield, Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, Richard Pinhas & Heldon, Yanni, John Tesh, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Brian Eno, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Rick Wakeman, Pink Floyd, Can, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Deep Forest, Ashra, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster, Neu!, Harmonia, La Dusseldorf
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2009 CONCERTS - Tickets On Sale Soon!
London, new Greenwich Planetarium, "Supernova" Best of... CD/DVD launch, Saturday November 28th 2009, tickets on sale soon
2008 CONCERTS COMPLETED
MARK JENKINS "The Ceremony of Innocence" at E-Live, Eindhoven Holland, with
WHITE NOISE and ARTHUR BROWN and ALQUIMIA
and performances with WHITE NOISE in Holland, Germany, Paris, Herstmonceux Castle, and the All Tomorrow's Parties festival.
LONDON 2007/2008 CONCERTS COMPLETED
"MUSIC FOR THE 3rd MILLENNIUM" concert series
Saturday August 25th "Ghosts of Mars"
Saturday September 22nd "Supernova"
Saturday October 27th "Cellistica"
Saturday November 24th "White Noise"
Visit the "Music for the 3rd Millennium" profile in Top Friends!!!
Avant-garde, dark ambient experimental electro-acoustic and minimalist music with guest musicians, including my performance of Terry Riley's "A Rainbow In Curved Air" - like Warp Records, John Cage
The legendary UK electronic music group formed by David Vorhaus in which I'm currently performing around the UK and Europe.
RECENT CD's ON RELEASE NOW - "Mark Jenkins Live In The USA" (double ambient and synth music CD currently including free the krautrock style "Mark Jenkins Live at the Royal Festival Hall with Damo Suzuki", price for all 3 is the same as for 2 CD's), and "This Island Earth", new studio and laptop album of 70's-style synth music like Cluster and Tangerine Dream. Send a MySpace message for ordering details or get them from Groove, Neu Harmony, C&DS, Cue, Artists Shop, Wayside Music, Eurock and other dealers. "GHOSTS OF MARS" ambient dance CD also out now on AMP Music (UK) and Ricochet Dream (USA) - see the separate MySpace page!!!
I got into music after seeing Mike Oldfield perform "Tubular Bells" on TV in 1974. I thought this was something wonderful - completely different from anything in the pop charts, no singing, repetitive without being monotonous, and incredibly emotional and expressive. I started to play guitar but within a few months heard something even more incredible - Tangerine Dream in session on the John Peel radio show. At the time I loved the Space Invaders arcade games and this seemed like their perfect soundtrack, full of strange sounds and textures. Of course synthesizers like the big Moog systems were extremely expensive, but I got hold of a couple of electric keyboards and tape recorders, then had kit synths and sequencers built for me.
At University I used their ARP Odyssey and other synths and created concert backing videos in the college TV studio. My first job was on an electronic music magazine and I reviewed all the new synths starting with the very first MIDI models as well as meeting some of the big names of the electronic music scene in the 1980's - Jean-Michel Jarre, Karlheinz Stockhausen, White Noise, Tangerine Dream and many others. I formed a label to help release my own music in 1985 and later released compilations including tracks personally offered by Isao Tomita, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk and many others.
As well as playing many solo synthesizer concerts at venues including the London Planetarium, the Carnegie Science Center Planetarium Pittsburgh, the Franklin Institute Planetarium Philadelphia, and the Teatro Nacional, Brazilia I had the privilege of performing at the Royal Festival Hall, London with Damo Suzuki, the amazing improvising singer from the German rock band Can. Right now I'm developing several new solo album and band projects in the synthesizer, progressive rock and jazz/world fusion fields, including performances in the UK and USA of my own music and a piece by Terry Riley. I am also performing as a member of the legendary electronic music band White Noise.
CD's AVAILABLE BY MAIL NOW!
ALL CD's £10 each inc. mailing worldwide
"Analog Archives"
"Space Dreams"
"Thunder At Midnight"
"Mexico Rising"
"Space Dreams 2"
"Moog Meditations"
"Sequencer Loops"
"Sequencer Loops 2"
"If The World Were Turned On Its Head, We Would Walk Among The Stars"
"Live In The USA" double CD - includes free for a limited time "Live with Damo Suzuki at the Royal Festival Hall" - price for all 3 is the same as for 2 CD's NEW CD's OUT NOW!!!
"This Island Earth" released in the UK (by AMP Music) and USA (by Ricochet Dream)
Available from Groove, Cue, SMD, Eurock, Artists Shop, Wayside and others!!!
Includes tracks for analog synths, digital synths and new all-laptop pieces!
Mark Jenkins presents Ghosts of Mars "Something Dancing In The Darkness"
Ambient dance CD with vocals by Alquimia, see the separate MySpace page.
NEW BOOK - "Analog Synthesizers; Understanding, Performing, Buying" through Focal Press and Amazon throughout the world.
plus still available
"Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol. 1" (curator)
"Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol. 2" (curator)
"Music for the 3rd Millennium Vol. 3" (curator)
ALL CD's AVAILABLE BY MAIL NOW!
Each CD £10 including worldwide mailing through PayPal account markjenkinsmusic@btinternet.com.
Payments by PayPal, IBAN, SWIFT/BIC, cash, UK cheque or PO.
SOME CD's ALSO AVAILABLE FROM CD BABY AND iTUNES!!!
THE LEGENDARY WHITE NOISE WILL BE APPEARING AT SONIC WORLD FESTIVAL, LUMB FARM, RIPLEY, DERBYSHIRE, 4/5TH SEPTEMBER 2009 - tickets available from www.sonicworldfestival.co.uk
Holy shoot, I thought I recognised the name and face!
I really enjoyed the collab. work you did with Dave at MDX uni the other day. Was a pleasure to meet you both and I'll look out for a copy of your book.
Best regards, (don't ditch the Wakeman style cape!)
Thanks very much for replying, Mark! Yes, I'm finding your book very instructive. I'm a 'mature' student at Leeds Metropolitan University, so we've been using Max/MSP this year, that sort of thing. I don't have any real criticisms of your book (I'd hoped there were some VCS3 samples on the CD, but I know how rare this synth is now). It's possible , however, by the end of the decade, that you'll be able to write two books, one on analogue synths, and one on virtual ones! My ears aren't fooled by the latter (the Moog just sounds richer, it's as simple as that!), but it seems like that's the way everything's going, and then, of course, there's the cost. I came across a Jupiter 4 in Leeds last year, but it was £700: I simply can't afford to pay that much for a synth that might not work properly anymore.
Anyway, best of luck with your future projects....perhaps I'll be able to give you some more helpful suggestions when I've actually finished reading your comprehensive tome!
Hey Mark! Thanks so much for your reply to my Gumtree add. You're a live member of White Noise?!!! I bought An Electric Storm in a rustic record store on CD and it remains one of my absolute favourite works - period! I wish I was old enough to have heard it in its heyday :(
BTW, The gear you have on display on your profile pic is most teasing :'(
Thanks for your message! "The Visitor" was one of those stand out tracks for me in my very early days of being into electronic music! It was inspiring! If you have a CD of that full version....I'd like to hear it!
I managed to follow in your footsteps some 10 years later by having a "Demo of the month" track on Sound on Sound...which got played on Radio 1!
Sadly I havent had the success you have since, but I still love this mad crazy world of electronic music!
Thank you sooooo much for your assistance and advice! I appreciated hearing from you and I will certainly look into saving files in a different way from now on.
By the way, your music is absolutely exquisite and supremely perfecto!
I wish you all the best in your tours around Europe and ultimately to America.
Galactic Travels airs every Thursday at 11:04 pm Eastern US Timezone/GMT-5 On-line at http://rm1.refugemedia.com/ramgen/encoder/wdiy.rm (Requires Real Player)
Hi, Mark, thanks for the add.
I'm so excited about your message. I'll try to post a mp3 player on my page with a large selection. I think this could take some time - as I still don't know how to do it, and my connection is so slow. But I'll do my best.
Thank you for your interest
mael
Hey Mark,
I enjoy Your music and myspace-site. I hope to hear more new stuff from You and see You soon live in Germany.
Thanks again for Your friendship.
Bye
moonbooter
PS: My new album "under control" will be released at April 21 ...Maybe interesting for You...
Hello Mark! I just listened to your songs, and they are really amasing! Thanks for the request! I hope to hear more from you in the future.
Best regards, Sebastian Svahn.
