{{Primary sources|date=June 2023}} {{Autobiography|date=June 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox musical artist |background=person |name=Mark Tinley |image= |caption= |birth_name=Mark Simon Tinley |alias=Mark Ty-Wharton |birth_date={{birth date and age|df=yes|1963|03|18}} |birth_place=Southampton, Hampshire, England |genre=Acid house, punk, alternative rock, glitch, experimental |instruments=Vocals, guitar, keyboards |years_active=1979–present |occupations=Music technologist, guitarist, public speaker |label=Delektra, KAK Records, Pepper, Peacefrog, SOHO Girl Records, Underground Level Recordings }}
'''Mark Ty-Wharton''' (born '''Mark Tinley'''; 18 March 1963) is a British music technologist, informal logician and public speaker who specialises in presentations using sound art.<ref name="SonusMagus.wordpress.com">{{Cite web|date=2017-07-21|title=Meet The Team – sonusmagus.com|url=https://sonusmagus.wordpress.com/meet-the-team/|access-date=2020-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170721001543/https://sonusmagus.wordpress.com/meet-the-team/|archive-date=2017-07-21}}</ref> He is best known for his work as a guitarist, programmer, sound engineer and record producer with Adamski, Duran Duran,<ref name="SOS">{{cite magazine |last=Humberstone |first=Nigel |title=Mark Tinley: Working With Duran Duran |url=https://www.soundonsound.com/people/mark-tinley-working-duran-duran |magazine=Sound on Sound |publisher=SOS Publications Group |access-date=23 October 2024 |date=February 1994}}</ref> TV Mania, Gary Numan, Glenn Gregory, the Dandy Warhols and others.
==Bands== In 1982, he formed the band Peeping Toms with Shaun Morris, and left several months later when they found a bass player; the band has continued to play, in various configurations, for over two decades.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} He was inspired by industrial band SPK to begin working on solo projects involving the layering of sounds on a high-end tape recorder,{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} while playing in numerous other bands on the side.{{Example needed|s|date=June 2023}} He played a John Peel session in 1984 as part of the band Dormannu, continued forming and reforming bands,{{Example needed|s|date=June 2023}} worked in and founded various nightclubs,{{Example needed|s|date=June 2023}} and acquired numerous synthesizers and other acoustic toys along the way.<ref name="SonusMagus.wordpress.com"/>
In 1988, he formed Britain's first acid house band{{According to whom|date=June 2023}} the Garden of Eden with Kiss FM DJ Steve Jackson, vocalist Angela McCluskey and fashion designer Pam Hogg. The recording charted at number 93 on 24 December.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023}} 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".<ref name="SonusMagus.wordpress.com"/>
==Duran Duran== In 1993, 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,{{Peacock inline|date=June 2023}} working intimately with keyboardist Nick Rhodes. "[Rhodes will] say 'I like this sound, but can you make it like this?' So when we first started he went through all the sounds on all the keyboards and decided what sounds worked for various songs, then asked me to modify those that weren't quite right. And sometimes he'll just describe a sound and I'll sit down and make it for him." Their workhorse keyboard is the Kurzweil K2000, along with numerous other technological gadgets.<ref name="SOS"/>
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''.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=He is not credited on this album}} He also toured with the band, helping to prepare and maintain the complex synthesizer set-ups used by Rhodes during live shows.<ref name="RolandUS.com">{{Cite web|last=La Rosa|first=Pablo|authorlink=|title=Duran Duran: An interview with Nick Rhodes and programmer Mark Tinley|work=Roland Users Group|publisher=Roland Corporation|year=2003|url=http://www.rolandus.com/community/rug/?pg=online_exclusives&art=duran_duran|access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The sourced cited doesn't mention the subject of this article.|date=June 2023}}<ref name="DuranDuranStore.com">{{Cite web|last=|first=|authorlink=|title=Duran Duran Information & Biography|publisher=Duran Duran Collector's Store|year=2017|url=http://www.duranduranstore.com/duran-duran-information--biography-156-c.asp|access-date=2017-06-26|archive-date=24 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124163542/http://www.duranduranstore.com/duran-duran-information--biography-156-c.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=One source doesn't mention him and the other is a dead link; this information is unverified.}}
Tinley continued working on Duran Duran's subsequent albums ''Thank You'' (1995), ''Medazzaland'' (1997), ''Pop Trash''{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=He is not credited on this album}} (2000), and ''Astronaut'' (2004). He also produced the Dandy Warhols with Rhodes, and created the TV Mania project with Rhodes and Cuccurullo.{{Citation needed|date=June 2023|reason=While he is credited as a producer on TV Mania's album, there is no evidence he was involved in the creation of the project, or that he was a full member of the band.}}
==Private life== In 2016, after taking a ten-year career break to come to terms with his diagnosis of autism, Tinley opened a music shop in Glastonbury, UK.<ref name="NormalForGlastonbury.uk">{{Cite web|last=|first=|authorlink=|title=Sonus Magus – Glastonbury's Magical Music Shop|work=Normal for Glastonbury|publisher=VickiPurple|year=2017|url=http://normalforglastonbury.uk/2017/02/02/sonus-magus-glastonburys-magical-music-shop/|access-date=2017-06-26}}</ref>
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