Minneapolis-musician wired to create bio-generated tune
while asleep during “Marathon 4”.
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Mark
Mallman’s “Marathon 4” takes place across America from Sept. 15th-22nd.
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Mark Mallman discusses the upcoming
historic event “Marathon 4”
[YOUTUBE]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuJpylDaNU
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Mark Mallman
interviewed about “Marathon 4: Road Rogue” by Minnesota Public Radio here:
See inside
Mallman’s GMC Vandura, the “venue” for “Marathon 4,” courtesy of Minneapolis
City Pages:
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Minneapolis-based musician Mark Mallman’s upcoming historic event, “Marathon 4: Road Rogue,” is a transcontinental, bio-generated,
one-man, non-stop, seven-day, 150-plus hour music performance starting in New
York on September 15th and concluding in Los Angeles on September 22nd. The entire event will be streamed live at markmallman.com, and if successful, is
certain to provide a new trajectory for the future of music online and beyond.
“Marathon 4” is the follow-up to Mallman’s “Marathon 3” which
was launched at 10PM on October 10th, 2010 (10/10/10!), and saw Mallman performing a non-stop,
non-sleep, 78-hour song with 576-pages of lyrics, 110 guest musicians, and over
25,000 viewers logging in to the performance that went down as an endurance
exercise much more akin to John Cage
than David Blaine.
“Marathon 4” will see Mallman traveling coast-to-coast in a 1997 GMC Vandura van wired to
webcast the proceedings. He will perform
music non-stop (even while sleeping), parking along the way in selected major
cities where guest musicians will be invited aboard to jam.
As Mallman
sleeps, he will be creating “biogen music” using an Emotiv EEG controller, a modified Mattel Mindflex, and a modified Polar heart rate monitor via MIDI through Ableton Live and a program made especially for “Marathon 4” called “BioWave”. What it all means is that Mallman’s brain and body will be
creating music without the help of his conscious self.
“I submit to technology to speak through me via this
odd concert which I will perform crudely, admittedly, but will do so with
humility,” Mallman states. “The
vehicle is the venue. The venue is the mind. The mind is the music. The music
is the journey. The journey is the vehicle. Gas, food, and bandwidth.”
“Marathon 4: Road Rogue” precedes the upcoming
release of Mark Mallman’s latest
album Double Silhouette, scheduled for October 9th. See below for full “Marathon 4” schedule. The
parking location of a daily “open house” for the media, as well as Mallman’s special guest musicians, will
be announced day-of in each city.
Mark Mallman
is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for
more information.
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Mark Mallman
“Marathon 4”
Streaming
live at
markmallman.com
09/15 New York, NY
09/15 Pittsburgh, PA
09/16 Detroit, MI
09/17 Chicago, IL
09/18 Minneapolis, MN
09/19 Omaha, NE
09/20 Denver, CO
09/21 Las Vegas, NV
09/22 Los Angeles, CA
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Mark Mallman Links
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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion
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