MARK JENKINS
About
Mark Jenkins has been described as "the master synth musician in the UK" (by Eurock magazine, USA).
His music is influenced by that of 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, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Deep Forest & Ash Ra Tempel.
Many of his albums include themes of space travel, cosmology, science fiction, ecology and exploration.
He recently became the first British musician to perform at the Greenwich Planetarium in London and has performed throughout Europe and in the USA, Brazil, China and Russia.
He is influenced by the authors Iain M. Banks,
Larry Niven and Richard Dawkins, and by movies including the Babylon 5 cycle and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Mark Jenkins is an internationally published author on the subjects of music and media technology and is the editor of the online media magazine EMIX.