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| 2025 |
01/11-13: Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms returns to The University of Houston for a 2-day workshop and live performance at the Quintero Theater.
| 2024 |
11/14-11/17: Vernusky’s audiovisual collab with Daniel Maldonado ,…In Darkness, There is Light will screen at the ANALOGICA Festival in Bolzano, South Tyrol.
11/04: …In Darkness, There is Light will screen at the Engauge Experimental Film Festival in Seattle.
10/22: Theatre Heroes presents an adaptation of Wind in the Willows at The Paramount State Theatre in Austin by Greg Romero, featuring Noel Gaulin (actor), Adrienne Ingles (siku) and many other designers, with an electronic score by Vernusky.
10/21: Additional performance of Wind in the Willows at The Paramount State Theatre, featuring Austin’s Theatre Heroes & an electronic score by Mike Vernusky.
10/20: Wind in the Willows premieres at The Paramount State Theatre in Austin, featuring Noel Gaulin (actor), Adrienne Inglis (sikus), with an electronic score by Mike Vernusky.
09/26: Vernusky’s audiovisual collab with Daniel Maldonado ,…In Darkness, There is Light will screen at the Revolutions Per Minute Festival, held at Harvard CamLab in Boston.
09/11: Vernusky is an invited artist at the Multimedia Archival Storytelling Lab, a 3-part series for archivists, documentarians, and artists sponsored by The Alliance and Arbo Radiko.
08/26: Vernusky’s latest electro-theatre collaboration with playwright Greg Romero, Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms, is being workshopped at the Quintero Theatre at The University of Houston.
08/22: Vernusky’s audiovisual collab with Daniel Maldonado , …In Darkness, There is Light will receive its European Premiere at Celluloidra Revolverrel Hungarian Experimental Film Festival in Esztergom, Hungary.
08/16: Vernusky’s audiovisual collab with Daniel Maldonado, …In Darkness, There is Light is a featured work at Chroma Art Film Festival in Miami.
08/02: Vernusky is attending the Cervantes Electroacústico Festival at Teatro Nacional Cervantes in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
07/12: Vernusky’s audiovisual collab with Daniel Maldonado , …In Darkness, There is Light is screening at CineFestival @ Alamo Drafthouse in San Antonio, TX.
06/30: …IN DARKNESS, THERE IS LIGHT is screening at the Pugnant Film Series in Vouliagmenis, Greece.
06/30: Stage Left Theatre is again presenting Big Iron Fires by Greg Romero with music by Mike Vernusky, at Chief O’Neil’s in Chicago.
06/28: Big Iron Fires by Greg Romero, with music by Mike Vernusky, is being performed at Chief O’Neil’s in Chicago.
06/11: Stay tuned for an upcoming cassette release on the Japanese record label NEUS-318 of Osaka.
05/15: New work underway with Wataru Ueno (Kyoto) for shakuhachi, electronic sound & field recordings with vintage analog synths.
05/01: …In Darkness, There is Light has won the Founder’s Choice Award for Best Experimental Film at the Queens World Film Fest, NYC.
04/28: Vernusky’s audiovisual collab with Daniel Maldonado, …IN DARKNESS, THERE IS LIGHT will premiere at the Queens WFF at The Museum of the Moving Image, NYC.
03/24: Vernusky’s electroacoustic work, Omoidasu, is receiving its World Premiere on the closing night of Festival Contemporary Computer Music Concert in Shinjuku, Tokyo at Institut Français, Espace Images in Tokyo, at 630pm.
03/15: Phonography session #161: The sights, sounds, and culture of Kyoto, Osaka, Tokyo and others.
02/26: Recording sessions with siku flutist Adrienne Inglis for the upcoming Wind in the Willows theatrical work, with script by Greg Romero.
02/12: Radio Ghosts, the electro-theatre work by Vernusky and playwright Greg Romero has won Best New Play in the Broadway World Theatre Awards for Anchorage.
01/22: Vernusky is a finalist in the Contemporary Computer Music Competition in Japan, where his work Omoidasu is part of their new works competition.
| 2023 |
10/25 - 31: Vernusky’s collaborative work Episode 21: Hidden (D. Maldonado, film) is screening as part of the Skeleton Crawl Art Ball in NYC, 145 Sterling Place
8/12 - Carnivale has been invited to the Chroma Art Film Festival in Miami, a new experimental fest hosted by SuperBlue in the Arts District.
7/09 - Radio Ghosts is being performed by the TBA Theatre in Anchorage, at the Willliamson Auditorium.
7/08 - Radio Ghosts will be performed by the TBA Theatre in Anchorage, at the Wendy Willliamson Auditorium. Directed by Erin Dagon Mitchell.
6/16 - Radio Ghosts is being produced by the TBA Theatre at the 2023 Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska.
6/15 - Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms receives a staged reading at the Valdez Civic Center, Alaska. Directed by Kalli Randall.
5/18 - Vernusky is presenting The Holy Sea of Vinyl at the 57th annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) conference, in Pittsburgh.
4/27 - Mike is recording swamps in the Atchafalaya Basin in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana in preparation for a new evening work with Greg Romero: Falling Down the Mountain of Great Storms.
3/06 - Vernusky returns to southern Brazil to delve deep into the field, recording the culture and goings-on in Curitiba, Morretes, and more.
2/20 - Mike will be conducting daily phonography sessions and expeditions in and outside of Quito, Ecuador. Details coming soon on a new release.
2/18 - Mike Vernusky is joining Gordon Hempton for his 2023 expedition to the Amazon Rainforest in Ecuador, where they will be living with the Cofán nation for the week.
1/14 - New music under way for an upcoming audiovisual collaboration with Daniel Maldonado, …IN DARKNESS, THERE IS LIGHT
| 2022 |
12/08- Carnivale will screen at MalaBar in La Paz, Bolivia as part of the Jonas Mekas 100 showcase for ULTRAcinema.
11/11- Carnivale is screening at the Cineteca Nacional de Mexico in CDMX.
11/03- Opening night of Sarah Ruhl’s theatrical work, Eurydice, at Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette with sound design and music by Mike Vernusky.
10/30- Vernusky will be composer in residence at The University of Louisiana at Lafayette for their production of Sarah Ruhl’s enchanting work, Eurydice.
10/13- Carnivale is a featured work in the 11th annual ULTRAcinema Festival in Mexico City. Details here.
10/07- New collaboration with Greg Romero, “The Last Fantasy Package” is premiering at Rule of 7X7, at The Tank in NYC
09/01- Mumbai Horizon is a featured work on Vicki Hallet’s new radio show, Beyond the Hertz, on MixCloud Camp Radio.
08/12- Phonography Session #136: The NYC Subway, Line 7 and a community in motion, Queens, NY.
08/01- In Progress: The Holy Sea audio documentary #2: Will Jima’s phenomenal vinyl trilogy.
07/24- New music under way for Wind in the Willows, adapted by Greg Romero and commissioned by Theatre Heroes.
06/16- Radio Ghosts is being performed with a live score at the Frontier Theatre Conference at the Valdez Civic Center, Alaska.
06/12- News: Vernusky’s music is featured in the mini-doc, Lift a Weight, premiering at Cine Las Americas Film Festival at AFS Cinema.
05/08- Inaugural audio documentary for The Holy Sea Episode 1: Endless Sunshine: The Mexia State School now complete. News coming soon on a release.
04/10- Karin Hellqvist is performing Drawn into the Sea for solo violin and electronic sound at NYHS Katrineholm, Sweden.
02/28- News: Radio Ghosts, with playwright Greg Romero has been invited to be performed at The Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, Alaska in June.
01/19- An excerpt from Drifts has been released by Mute Sound Records of Spain, as part of Auto-Hypnosis #47.
| 2021 |
10/21- The audiovisual work Carnivale w/ video by D. Maldonado will be featured on Media Monsters, Series 2 Ep.1 on Twitch.tv.
08/01- Stellar review of Aatma by Marc Urselli over at Chain DLK magazine, read it here.
07/25 - Grant received from the Queens Council on the Arts, for the ongoing audiovisual conversation with Daniel Maldonado. New work underway, details tbd.
06/14 - Fantastic review of the album Aatma posted over at Feardrop Magazine. Check it out here.
05/20 - Omoidasu: new album complete. Features Yumi Kurosawa, Tetuzi Akiyama, Yoshio Machida, Ko Ishikawa, Kazuya Ishigami, Kenta Masuda and several others. Details coming soon.
04/23 - Post-production audio completed for Adam Hootnick’s documentary, Across the Great Divide. Out now, watch it here.
03/23 - Aatma has received a lovely album review by Frans de Waard in the latest edition of Vital Weekly. Check it out here.
03/12 - Aatma is officially released on vinyl and streaming platforms! Get in touch for a copy. Limited physical copies available, French import.
02/05 - Test pressings for Vernusky’s upcoming LP, Aatma - Textures of Mumbai , on Ferns Recordings of Paris have been received, auditioned, and approved.
01/25 - New work underway with Iranian musician Morteza Abedinifard for setar, kemenche, voice, synths, and electronic sound.
01/16 - Mastering sessions for Ara - Tensions of Istanbul, at Altered Ear Studios, Austin.
| 2020 |
12/06 - New album in the works: Drifts - for crystal bowls, gong, percussion, and vintage analog synths.
11/01 - Vernusky’s work is featured in the exhibit Audiosphere: Sound Experimentation 1980-2020, through Jan 11 at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
10/01 - The Holy Sea is featured in the new release of Super-Sensor #2, an e-Magazine of/on/around experimental sound released by the Sound Archive of Experimental Music and Sound Art, Spain and curated by Francisco López.
07/01 - Ara - Tensions of Istanbul, is complete. Details and sounds coming soon..
05/01 - Omoidasu: new album in final stages of completion featuring Tetuzi Akiyama, Yoshio Machida, Ko Ishikawa, Kazuya Ishigami, Kenta Masuda and several others.
04/17 - Hyde Park Theater’s Best of the Fest broadcast premiere of Big Iron Fires written by Greg Romero, with electronic sound by Mike Vernusky, can be viewed here.
03/20 - Karin Hellqvist is performing Drawn into the Sea (solo violin + electronic sound) at the televised Svensk Musikvår in Stockholm.
02/15 - This May, Vernusky’s work Red Mass (part 1 from The Holy Sea) will be a featured work at AudioSphere at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
01/05 - Mastering sessions for the upcoming album Aatma on Ferns Recordings of Paris, France at Altered Ear Studios, Austin.
| 2019 |
11/07 - Vernusky’s ambient work Becomes Wing Life is featured in Stijn Demeulenaere’s upcoming Latitudes performance at Les Garages Numériques in Brussels
10/17-11/3: FEAR III: Visiting Death will feature Vernusky’s collaborative works with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado The Episodes at Plaxall Gallery, NYC
10/14: Mastering sessions for The Holy Sea, part IX: Yellow Mass, at Altered Ear Studios, Austin
09/28: Mike is a featured composer at Visiones Sonoras XV in Morelia, MX, where he will be presenting a talk on The Holy Sea with a live performance of Episode 21
08/13: Radio Ghosts, Vernusky’s ongoing collaborative work with Greg Romero, is a featured work in the New Play Exchange database: Ghost Plays
08/03: CARNIVALE, Vernusky’s latest collaborative work with filmmaker Daniel Maldonado, is a chosen work for Plaxall Gallery’s upcoming exhibition of Creative Mosaic Live, in LIC, NYC
07/04: Mike Vernusky & The Holy Sea will be featured in the upcoming edition of Francisco López’s Super Sensor #2 magazine, more info here
06/01: MotherSpeak has a featured track on the Wabi Sabi Radio Show, by Radio Raheem / Vertical Music. Listen here
05/26: Phonography Session #135: hospital sounds and the birth of baby Gwen!
05/01-28: New work in progress: Ara : Tensions of Istanbul
04/16-22: Phonography Session #134: images, sounds and culture of Istanbul
04/17-19: Mike is an invited composer at the Music & Sciences Symposium at Istanbul Technical Univ., with The Holy Sea as a featured lecture-recital
03/04: New work in progress: Aatma : Textures of Mumbai
03/01: Radio Ghosts with co-creator Greg Romero, playwright, is a finalist in The Hyde Park Theater New Play Development Workshop series
02/21: Official worldwide release date for MotherSpeak on AudioBulb Recordings via streaming and high-fidelity audio disc
02/15: Phonography Session #133: the sounds, culture, and people of Mumbai, India
02/08: MotherSpeak, an album of sounds from South Africa, has received a stellar review over at Chain DLK magazine, read it here
01/15: Mastering sessions for The Holy Sea: Black at Altered Ear Studios, Austin
| 2018 |
12/10: Mastering sessions for The Holy Sea: Green at Altered Ear Studios, Austin
11/22: Mastering sessions for The Holy Sea: Blue at Altered Ear Studios, Austin
10/18: Mastering sessions for MotherSpeak with Cory Allen at Altered Ear Studios, Austin
09/14: Vernusky’s latest album, MotherSpeak, will be released in February of 2019 on Audiobulb Recordings, the UK-based label for electronic sound
07/21: The 2nd workshop for The Holy Sea is being hosted at Austin Presbyterian Seminary, featuring 4 actors, voice & electronic sound
06/02: The Hidden is being performed at the Ionian Academy concert hall, as part of the 70th Anniversary concert of Musique Concrète
06/01: Vernusky is a featured composer at the 11th Sonic Arts Summer Festival at Ionian University in Corfu, Greece
05/15: Inaugural workshop for The Holy Sea: Live, for 5 actors, breakdancer, and electronic sound at Central Presbyterian Church, Austin
03/17: Phonography session #132: the sights, sounds, and culture of Nagano and Tokyo, Japan
02/23-26: Mike Vernusky is sound designing Adam R. Burnett's Mammoth, showing at SAC Blackbox at The University of Texas at Austin
02/13-16: Big Iron Fires chosen for Best of the Week at FronteraFest Austin and has received two additional performances
02/10: Big Iron Fires chosen for Best of the Night at FronteraFest Austin and will receive an additional performance
02/09: Premiere: sound design for Greg Romero's play Big Iron Fires, showing at FronteraFest Austin at Hyde Park Theater
01/21: A new collaborative work for field sound from South Africa and live clarinet featuring Vicki Hallet (Melbourne), has been released on FMA. Link here
| 2017 |
11/16: Mike Vernusky is joining Francisco López for the 2017 Sonic Mmabolela field listening expedition in Limpopo, South Africa
11/14: Phonography session #131: the sights, sounds, and culture of Johannesburg, South Africa
10/09: Vernusky is performing sounds of The Holy Sea with live electronics with Abinadi Meza at the Me-Mer-Mo series at The Volstead in Austin
10/06: Music & sound design for Ariana Reines' play Telephone, directed by Khristian Méndez, showing October 6-8 at The University of Texas at Austin
09/23: H.O.M.E. is screening at the Georgia Latino Film Festival in Atlanta, Georgia
09/02: Vernusky is performing sounds of The Holy Sea with live electronics with Abinadi Meza, at the Museum of Human Achievement in Austin
6/04: H.O.M.E. is screening at the Festival Int'l de Cine Cuenca, Ecuador
6/01: Phonography session #130: The sights, sounds, and culture of Oslo & rural Norway
5/18: H.O.M.E. receives its spotlight screening at The Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, CA
4/19: H.O.M.E. is being screened at the Festival Int'l de Cine de Gibara, Holguín, Cuba
3/26: H.O.M.E. is screening at The North Hollywood CineFest, Laemmle Noho Theater
2/24: Mike is a guest composer at the Sound and Music in Documentary Film Symposium at The Univ. of Huddersfield, UK
2/24: U.K. premiere of Dallas on the 48-channel HISS Loudspeaker Orchestra at The University of Huddersfield, UK
2/17: Mike is a guest composer at the TransX Transmission Art Symposium, Toronto, Canada
2/17: Excerpts of The Holy Sea will be presented at the TransX Transmission Art Symposium, Geary Lane, Toronto
| 2016 |
12/03: Premiere of new a/v work Carnivale (video by D. Maldonado) at Art for Progress showcase: Miami Art Basel
11/11: Vernusky is an invited artist at The National Arts Marketing Project in Austin, Texas
10/24: H.O.M.E. is screening at the Violet Crown Cinema in Austin
10/2: Sant Andreu de la Barcelona Film Festival: H.O.M.E. - sound design & music by Vernusky
9/29: Thou was performed at the 2016 MUSLAB Int'l Music Festival of Mexico City
9/18: San Francisco Latino Film Festival: H.O.M.E.
8/12: Queens World Film Festival Encore Series: H.O.M.E.
7/04: Becomes Wing Life officially released on iTunes and other online channels. Listen here
6/16: New Jersey International Film Festival: H.O.M.E.
6/01: Radio Ghosts is the monthly feature on The Cutty Strange radio show, on WGXC 90.7-FM in upstate NY
5/14: Vernusky is a guest on the DriveTime Underground radio show on Resonance FM, London
5/13: AudibleVisions: Episode 21: The Hidden is screening at St James Hatcham Church, Goldsmiths, London
5/11: Invited composer and presenter at the AudibleVisions conference at Goldsmiths University of London, England
5/8: H.O.M.E. received the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at Cine Las Americas IFF
5/7: Cine Las Americas Film Fest, H.O.M.E., musical sound design by Vernusky, Salvage Vanguard Theater
5/6: Echofluxx 15 Festival of experimental digital art, Paralelní Polis, Prague, Czech Republic, Episode #21: The Hidden
4/15: Manhattan Film Festival, Cinema Village Theater, NYC - H.O.M.E.
4/13: Rome Media Art Festival at MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts. Episode #21: The Hidden
4/14-17: CollaborAction in Chicago: Installation of ekphrastic works for electronic sound featured at Mozawa's Y-Portraits 2.0 showcase
4/01-10: Location sound and field recording of the sites, sounds, and culture of southern Brazil: Morretes, Foz do Iguaçu, and Tupassí
3/20: Queens World Film Festival, NYC - H.O.M.E. - Winner, Best Narrative Feature
3/19: Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NYC, Official World Premiere of the film H.O.M.E.
January - Vernusky is an invited composer for the Estalagem da Ponta do Sol Contemporary Music Residency on the island of Madeira
- Performance of work Tanah for flutes and electronic sound, by Richard Craig (Scotland) at the John dos Passos Cultural Centre
- World Premiere of the violin solo Drawn into the Sea by Karin Hellqvist (Sweden/Norway) also at the Passos Cultural Centre
- Phonography Session #130: the sights, sounds and culture of Funchal and Ponta do Sol, Madeira
| 2015 |Online premiere of A Christmas Gathering, new work for found vinyl and electronics
Episode #21: The Hidden is a finalist in the Audience Award's Super 8mm Filmmaker challenge
Phonography Session #129: sites, sounds and audio-cultural landscapes of Mexico City
A new large-scale work in development, A Christmas Gathering, for turntable, found Christmas sound objects, and electronic sound
Vernusky is a resident artist and presenter for The Episodes at the Festival Internacional de Música Experimental in São Paolo, Brazil
Premiere of a new work, 'Tuning the Moment' at Open Secret Studios, at the Y-Portraits gallery showcase in Chicago
Mike is an invited composer for the Mise-En Music festival in June in NYC, where my piece Thou will be performed
Mike has been invited to create a sonic portrait for the Mozawa group's upcoming gallery installation, Y-Portraits, debuting this Spring in Chicago
Recording classical guitar, piano, moog and harmonium for Cory Allen's latest iteration in The Great Order album series
HOME pt. 1 is screening at the 30th FICG Festival Internacional de Cine in Guadalajara, Mexico
Vernusky's collaborative work The Episodes (with Daniel Maldonado) is featured in Creative Capital's "On Our Radar" program
Final film scoring & sound design sessions for HOME, directed by Daniel Maldonado
Phonography Session #128: Subways of New York City and the streets of Queens
| 2014 |
October - Mike is performing live electronics alongside Yumi Kurosawa (koto) for Fallen, presented by the Mozawa group in Chicago
November - Thou is being performed at the Escucha Errante festival in Bilbao, Spain
Mastering sessions for MEDINA: Images of Marrakech at Altered Ear Studios
Phonography Session #127: the sounds, culture & sonic landscape of Tokyo
September - Phonography session #126: the sounds, culture & sonic landscape of Hong Kong and Kowloon Bay
August - Novo Fogo audio mastering sessions
Early music recording sessions with soprano Meredith Ruduski and Stephanie Prewitt, alto
July - Early music recording sessions with Meredith Ruduski, soprano
June - Phonography Session #126: Gray Wolf Ranch, Boerne, TX
May - Studio session with gambaist Jane Leggiero for upcoming project for viola de gamba and early instruments
April - Creative sessions in music branding with Novo Fogo
Phonography Session #125: the sounds, culture & landscape of Marrakech
February - Soundscape work, Nanzen-ji Gate, is being installed in the taxis of the Marrakech Biennale
January -Vernusky will be performing electronic sound alongside koto player Yumi Kurasawa in Mozawa's adaptation of Roshomon: FALLEN. Outerspace, Chicago
| 2013 |
Theatre collaboration with Greg Romero, The Babel Project for 10 actors and electronic sound is being performed at Towson University
Thou will be performed at the 47th Edition of the Autumn Contemporary Music Festival in Cluj, Romania
Becomes Wing Life is a featured track on the Wire Tapper CD, included with every issue of Wire Magazine this month
Mastering sessions for the upcoming album Becomes Wing Life at Altered Ear Studios
Vernusky's phonographic work The Holy Sea has been featured in Creative Capital's "On Our Radar" program
Phonography session #122: the rain forests, sites, and sounds of San Juan, Puerto Rico
Episode #22: Missing is being performed at the Sonic Circuits Festival in DC
The Hidden is a featured installation at the Qubit Noise Festival at CSV in NYC
A sneak peak of HOME: Part 1, is screening at Culturefix in NYC
Means and Meditations is a finalist in the Fresh Minds Music Festival at Texas A&M
Cory Allen's new ensemble work, The Great Order, is released on Quiet Design. Limited edition clear vinyl which features Vernusky on bowed classical guitar
The latest work with playwright Greg Romero, The Babel Project, is a finalist in the 2013 Source Festival in DC
Film score and sound design sessions with the feature film H.O.M.E. Part 1, directed by Daniel Maldonado