Mark Jenkins (born 1960) is a

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musician and music writer. He has written interviews and instrument reviews for UK and international magazines including ''

Melody Maker ''Melody Maker'' was a British weekly music magazine, one of the world's earliest music weeklies; according to its publisher, IPC Media, the earliest. It was founded in 1926, largely as a magazine for dance band musicians, by Leicester-born ...

'', ''

New Musical Express ''New Musical Express'' (''NME'') is a British music, film, gaming, and culture website and brand. Founded as a newspaper in 1952, with the publication being referred to as a 'rock inkie', the NME would become a magazine that ended up as a f ...

'', ''

Music Week ''Music Week'' is a trade publication for the UK record industry distributed via a website and a monthly print magazine. It is published by Future. History Founded in 1959 as '' Record Retailer'', it relaunched on 18 March 1972 as ''Music W ...

'', '' International Musician'', ''Keyboard'' (US), and '' Mac Format'', and has also written a book, ''Analog Synthesizers'', 2nd Edition 2019. He currently writes for the US magazine, ''Synth & Software''. Jenkins studied a Combined Arts course at university; he worked in the university television and electronic music studios to create his first live performances. Graduating with a BA Honours degree, he became Music Editor of the magazine ''Electronics & Music Maker''. Working on other publications he interviewed artists including

Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive ...

Depeche Mode Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in Basildon, Essex, in 1980. The band currently consists of Dave Gahan (lead vocals and co-songwriting) and Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, co-lead vocals and main songwriting). Depech ...

, Isao Tomita,

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundb ...

and

Duran Duran Duran Duran () are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1978 by singer and bassist Stephen Duffy, keyboardist Nick Rhodes and guitarist/bassist John Taylor. With the addition of drummer Roger Taylor the following year the band we ...

and reviewed instruments from

Moog Music Moog Music Inc. () is an American synthesizer company based in Asheville, North Carolina. It was founded in 1953 as R. A. Moog Co. by Robert Moog and his father and was renamed Moog Music in 1972. Its early instruments included the Moog synthes ...

, Yamaha,

Roland Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...

Sequential Circuits Sequential is an American synthesizer company founded in 1974 as Sequential Circuits by Dave Smith. In 1978, Sequential released the Prophet-5, the first programmable polyphonic synthesizer; it became a market leader and industry standard, used ...

and others. Many of these features have been archived by the Muzines website. He gave further live performances at

London Olympia Olympia London, sometimes referred to as the Olympia Exhibition Centre, is an exhibition centre, event space and conference centre in West Kensington, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England. A range of internati ...

, the

London Planetarium The London Planetarium building is located on Marylebone Road, London. It is adjacent to and owned by Madame Tussauds. It previously housed a planetarium, offering shows related to space and astronomy. In 2006, it closed as a separate attractio ...

and the

Queen Elizabeth Hall The Queen Elizabeth Hall (QEH) is a music venue on the South Bank in London, England, that hosts classical, jazz, and avant-garde music, talks and dance performances. It was opened in 1967, with a concert conducted by Benjamin Britten. The Q ...

among other venues. Jenkins formed the label AMP Music in 1983. He has performed with

David Vorhaus White Noise is an English experimental electronic music band formed in London in 1968, after American-born David Vorhaus, a classical bass player with a background in physics and electronic engineering, attended a lecture by Delia Derbyshire, ...

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at venues including the

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Planetarium, Germany, and the All Tomorrow's Parties festival. He also performed at the Peter Harrison Planetarium at The Royal Observatory in 2009. In 2012

Taylor & Francis Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals. Its parts include Taylor & Francis, Routledge, F1000 Research or Dovepress. It is a division of Informa plc, a United Ki ...

published a new book by Jenkins, '' iPad Music'' following his release of the world's first all-iPad CD album in October 2010, and the ''Analog Synthesizers'' book was revised and updated interviewing artists such as Suzanne Ciani,

Paul Haslinger Paul Haslinger (born 11 December 1962) is an Austrian musician and composer. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Life and career Early life Haslinger was born and raised in Linz, Austria. He attended high school at Kollegium Alois ...

Hans Zimmer Hans Florian Zimmer (; born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer. He has won two Oscars and four Grammys, and has been nominated for two Emmys and a Tony. Zimmer was also named on the list of Top 100 Living G ...

and the composers of

Stranger Things ''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror drama television series created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as showrunners and are executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen. Produced by Monkey Massacre Pr ...

in 2019. In 2020 Mark Jenkins launched the ZyXyZ Books imprint with the matching volumes "Tangerine Dream: 50 Years - The Ultimate Discography", "Klaus Schulze: 50 Years - The Ultimate Discography" and "Kraftwerk: 50 Years - The Ultimate Discography". All three books were sold around the world through Amazon. Mark Jenkins lives in London and performs worldwide.

Albums

* ''Analog Archives'' (1986, re-mastered and expanded 2022) * ''Space Dreams'' (1990, re-mastered and expanded 2022) * ''Thunder at Midnight'' (1992) * ''Mexico Rising'' (1994) * ''Space Dreams 2'' (1996) * ''Moog Meditations'' (1998) * ''Sequencer Loops'' (2003) * ''Sequencer Loops 2'' (2004) * ''If The World Were Turned on Its Head, We Would Walk Among The Stars'' (2005) * ''Live with Damo Suzuki at the Queen Elizabeth Hall'' (2005) * ''Live in the USA'' (2006) * ''This Island Earth'' (2007) * ''Ghosts of Mars; Something Dancing in the Darkness'' (2008) * ''The iPad Album'' (2010) * ''EX1GENE'' (2012) * ''CHANGE OF COSMIC ADDRESS: New Music In Tribute to Edgar Froese'' (w. Chris Jenkins) (2015) * ''Mike Oldfield's TUBULAR BELLS for the MOOG SYNTHESIZER'' (2017) * ''Influences'' (2018) * ''Krautnoise; 1st'' (2019) * ''Perpetual Music Vol. 1'' (2019) * ''CELLISTICA: 1st FLIGHT'' (w. Hannah Chappell, cello) (2020) * ''MODULAR SESSIONS Nos. 1-9'' (editor and contributor) (2022)

Selected concerts

* London Olympia, 1986 * London Planetarium, 1989 * Brazilia Teatro Nacional, 1992 * London Astoria, 1991 & 1992 * London Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2005 * Philadelphia Franklin Institute Planetarium, 2005 * Pittsburgh Carnegie Center Planetarium, 2005 * Long Island NY Vanderbilt Planetarium, 2006 * Bochum Planetarium, Germany, 2008 * Greenwich Planetarium, London, 2009 * E-Live Festival, the Netherlands, 2010 * APosition Festival, Russia, 2012 * Seventh Wave Festival, Birmingham, 2019 * Ommadawn 45 Mike Oldfield convention 2022

References

External links

Mark Jenkins Website (2019)
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