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We are ugly,

but we have the music

— Leonard Cohen

Music is the silence

between the notes

— Claude Debussy

Extraordinary

how potent cheap music is

— Noel Coward

ABOUT ME

After leaving the Instant Automatons in 1982, I was not involved in music - other than as a passive consumer - until the very beginning of the 21st century.

Inspired and intrigued by the technological advances in modern music-making, I then began creating and recording new material of my own and distributing it, firstly on CD, and then (much more conveniently) via digital downloads.
This site presents a fairly comprehensive summary of what I've been doing for the past twenty-odd years, reflecting both my solo work and a couple of the most productive collaborations with which I have been involved.

randomk/automata

The conception of this collaboration could arguably be traced back to the late 1970s, when Product of Reason and the Instant Automatons were forged in North Lincolnshire's crucible of lo-fi DIY creativity. From the ashes of those bands Richard RandomK and Mark Automaton have raised the phoenix that is randomk/automata.

Mark Automaton

Richard RandomK

WVMA is a music/poetry/video collaboration between Mark Automaton and poet Will Vigar.
Most of the poems featured are drawn from Will's book "Vague Wisdom", published by The London Magazine Editions

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