Mark Ty-Wharton was born on Mark Tinley; 18 March 1963 and is a British music technologist, informal logician and public speaker who specialises in presentations using sound art.
11 Facts About Mark Tinley
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Mark Tinley is best known for his work as a guitarist, programmer, sound engineer and record producer with Adamski, Duran Duran, TV Mania, Gary Numan, Glenn Gregory, the Dandy Warhols and others.
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Mark Tinley was inspired by industrial band SPK to begin working on solo projects involving the layering of sounds on a high-end tape recorder, while playing in numerous other bands on the side.
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Mark Tinley played a John Peel session in 1984 as part of the band Dormannu, continued forming and reforming bands, worked in and founded various nightclubs, and acquired numerous synthesizers and other acoustic toys along the way.
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Mark Tinley then formed Diskord Datkord with his brother Adam Tinley and Jonny Slut of Specimen which signed with SOHO Records and released one single.
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In 1993, Mark Tinley was introduced to Duran Duran by Rob Ferguson, hired as a keyboard programmer, and soon became an integral part of their songwriting and production team, working intimately with keyboardist Nick Rhodes.
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Mark Tinley helped to set up the home studio which came to be known as "Privacy" in the living room of guitarist Warren Cuccurullo which is where the band recorded their 1993 Wedding Album.
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Mark Tinley toured with the band, helping to prepare and maintain the complex synthesizer set-ups used by Rhodes during live shows.
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Mark Tinley continued working on Duran Duran's subsequent albums Thank You, Medazzaland, Pop Trash, and Astronaut.
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Mark Tinley produced the Dandy Warhols with Rhodes, and created the TV Mania project with Rhodes and Cuccurullo.
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In 2016, after taking a ten-year career break to come to terms with his diagnosis of autism, Mark Tinley opened a music shop in Glastonbury, UK.