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BIO
Mark Mosher is an experimental electronic musician from Boulder, CO who's been programming and performing with synthesizers for over 20 years. Mark's recent works include two original concept albums with composed instrumental music called REBOOT & I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS and I HEAR YOUR SIGNALS (which made the October top 20 on NPR Member Station WDIY 88.1 FM).
He is currently working on Album #3 in the "Signals Universe" series which will contain composed and improvised material, remixes for other artists, and sound design projects.
Mark performs live in a one-man show format playing and controlling synthesizers in real-time with antennas, cubes, grids, and keys. Mark's show is an exploration in expressive musical controllerism. When performing live he arranges pieces on-the-fly and engages the audience with performances featuring instruments that offer feedback in the form of light. Mark has performed his live set at venues such as Electro-Music Festival in NY, the University of Denver black box theatre, the Art Institute of California/Sunnyvale, and Ableton Colorado. In 2012 Mark will be appearing at the Mountain Skies Electro-Music Festival in Asheville, NC. See the event page for more event listings.
Prior to becoming a solo artist, Mark worked as a professional musician, sound designer, and composer for hire. As an indie artist, Mark has his own label and publishes on iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify, and Bandcamp. Mark also makes his music available as free downloads under CC-BY-NC license and to date he's had over 60,000 combined listens on various music social networks such as soundcloud and bandcamp . In 2010, Mark was selected as a featured artist of the week out of the 2,000,000 strong community on ReverbNation.com. Mark is currently ranked #315 in the US & #845 on the Global Electronica charts on ReverbNation. He has had multiple #1 songs on SoundClick.com and was also featured in the Boulder Daily Camera Newspaper in late 2010.
Mark is an electronic music advocate and gives back to the community in various ways. For over five years Mark has been sharing knowledge via his geek synth blog ModulateThis.com. He also shares insights and performances via his youtube channel which just crossed 500,000 views. Mark has been invited to play and speak on music technology at Ableton Colorado User Group, music festivals, and the Microsoft’s Store. Mark has also developed a social musical instrument called "9 Box Method for performance, improvisation, and spontaneous tribal jams with music, sound, and light". This system is already the basis for an electronic music lab in a local Denver area school.
- August 2011 - Electro-Music 2011 Sampler CD. Track #18 Dark Signals. Composer, Musician, Producer.
- July 2010 - I Hear Your Signals. Composer, Musician, Producer. Original Electronic/Experimental music album yielding the #1 single on SoundClick's electronica charts "Dark Signals"
- October 2009 - REBOOT. Composer, Musician, Producer. Original Electronica music album yielding two #1 singles and on SoundClick's electronic charts
- 2005 - Song "Flight". Composer, Musician, Producer. Appears as a special feature on the DVD for the film One Six Right and also appears on the CD soundtrack.
Remix Producer
- 2012 - "Now is Now (You're Finally Free Remix)" by Fluorescent Echo
- 2011 - “The Key (Like a Freight Train Remix)” by Snowflake
- Competed as a semi-finalist in the 2012 Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition at George Tech on Behalf of Percussa
- December 2011 - AfroDJMac and Mark Mosher Zebra Attack [Ableton Live Rack #38]
- December 2011 - Outpost: Airlock soundset for Zebralette
- February 2011 - 9 Box Method for performance, improvisation, and spontaneous tribal jams with music, sound, and light
- January 2011 - Launched a free synthesizer and sampler preset micro site called Modulate This Patch Lab.
- December 2010 - SoundsFrom a Distant Outpost Ableton Live Pack
- December 2009 - Image-Line Harmless Patch Library
Soundtracks
- 2012 - "Dark Signals". Used in Blind Fly Theater Episode #10 (song is used sarting at 33:16).
- 2011-2012 - "Stealth". Theme song for Jonja.net Science Fiction Podcast
- 2005 - Original composition "Flight" used for soundtrack for special feature on the film One Six Right (DVD/Blueray)
- 2005 - Original composition "Flight" used for CD soundtrack for the film One Six Right
Instrument Design
- 2011 - Creation of the "9 Box" system for AudioCubes and Ableton Live which is now the basis for a computer lab a Metro Denver STEM School.
Music Education and Electronic Music Advocacy
- 2009-Present - Presentations on electronic music technology and technique including appearances at the Microsoft Store, DU, Ableton Coloradl, Electro-Music NY, and PNW Synthfest Seattle (remote).
- 2005-Present - Music Education. Editor of popular electronic music blog www.ModulateThis.com
Sound Deisgn for Live Theatre
- 2004 - Ma Rainey, UCCS Theatreworks
- 2004 - Treasure Island, UCCS Theatreworks
- 2004 - A Streetcar Named Desire, UCCS Theatreworks
Sound Deisgn for Live Attractions
- 2005-2011 - Haunted Mines, Ghoul's Gulch Productions
- 2002 - Inferno, Theatrical Haunted House UCCS Theatreworks/Ghoul's Gulch Productions
Custom Composition for Advertising (Select Projects)
- 2002 - Raytheon King Air Sales Video
- 2002 - Memorial Hospital Commercial
- 2003 - Maternus Sales Video
Professional Musican, Syntehsist and Vocalist
- 1989-2003 - Head Full of Zombies, Colorado Springs
Controllerism Rig
Mark researched and assmbled this rig over an 8 month period. It's focal point is a laptop running Ableton Live and a wide variety of virtual instruments. Below is an image with a drawing of the concept, and a second shot of the rig in reality (click to enlarge).
- Laptop:(Primary) HP Envy 14 - Windows 7 64-bit, Intel i5-460M Dual Core Processor 2.53 GHz, 3MB L3 Cache with Turbo Boost up to 2.8GHz, 4G Memory, 7200 RPM Drive; (Backup) HP DV6t-1200 Pavilion - Windows 7 32-bit, Intel Core2 Duo P8700 @ 2.53 GHZ, 3G Memory, 7200 RPM Drive
- Soundcard: Novation NIO 2|4
- DAW Software: Ableton Live 8 Suite
- Controllers: Novation Remote SL 25 MKII, Launchpad | Percussa AudioCubes | Tenori-On | Moog Etherwave Theremin (pitch-to-MIDI)
- Virtual Instruments: Native Instruments Absynth 5 | Rob Papen Predator | Tone2 ElectraX, Gladiator 2 | U-He ACE, Zebra 2, Zebralette | Camel Audio Alchemy | Ableton Sampler, Operator | Ableton & Cycling 74' Max for Live | SonicCharge Synplant, MicroTonic | Waldorf Largo | FAW Circle | reFX Slayer2 | Image-Line Harmless
- Virtual Effects: Ableton Live FX | Image-Line MultiBand Compressor | SugarBytes Artillery 2 & Effectrix | Tone2 Akustix | Absynth & Predator FX
- Middleware: Percussa MIDI Bridge, MIDI Yoke, KNZ Audio MIDIfier
- PA: Bose L1 Compact (for situations where there is no house PA)
- Stands: Odyssey ATT2 Table or a pair Roland SS-PC1 laptop stands with an x-stand
- Ambient Lighting: Chauveat SlimPar 56, Obey 3 Light Controller
Hardware Rig
- Hardware Synthesizer: Waldorf Blofeld
- Hardware Sequencer: Yamaha Tenori-On
