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Mark Ty-Wharton (born Mark Tinley March 18, 1963) is a British author, composer philosophical speaker who specialises in presentations using sound art.

He is best known for his work as a guitarist, Pro Tools / recording engineer and record producer.

He was a founder member of the band Peeping Toms with Shaun Morris, who subsequently became The Cropdusters after he moved to London to pursue a career as a professional musician in 1982.

He was inspired by industrial synthesis band SPK and beginworking on solo projects involving the layering of sounds on budget cassette recorders, while playing in numerous other bands as a bassist and guitarist.

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 synthesisers and other acoustic toys along the way.

In 1987 he established an audio visual recording studio, Pepper Productions which received awards for best music for corporate video.

In the Christmas week of 1988 his band Garden Of Eden reached number 93 in the UK Singles Chart.

He then formed Diskord Datkord with his brother Adam Tinley (better known as Adamski) and Jonny Slut of Specimen, which signed with SOHO Records and released one single.

Tinley then worked for Adamski, first as a programmer, then as a sound engineer while touring Europe and the United States to promote the single “Killer”.

In 1993 Tinley was introduced to Duran Duran, hired as a keyboard programmer, and soon became an integral part of their songwriting and production team, working intimately with keyboardist Nick Rhodes.

He helped to set up the home studio which came to be known as “Privacy” in the living room of guitarist Warren Cuccurullo. He also toured with the band, programmed the backing tracks and prepared and maintained the complex synthesizer set-ups used by Rhodes during live shows.

His band Paris Working supported Duran Duran at Wembley Arena in 1994.

Tinley continued working on Duran Duran’s subsequent albums Thank You (1995), Medazzaland (1997), Pop Trash (2000), and Astronaut (2004).

He was responsible for creating the recording space the newly reformed original members played their first notes together in over fifteen years in a Villa in St Tropez.

He also produced The Dandy Warhols with Rhodes, and created the TV Mania project with Rhodes and Cuccurullo.

In 2006 Tinley released a four track EP with singer Sally Boyden titled TinBoy.

He currently lives near London with his partner and son.

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