Fanatic Promotion: Mark Mallman makes music history with “Marathon 4,” a cross-country, non-stop song Wired calls “livestream brain wave music.”

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Mark Mallman makes music history with “Marathon 4,” a cross-country, non-stop song Wired calls “livestream brain wave music.”

American Songwriter debuts “Double Silhouette,” the first single and title track from Mallman’s new album, out Oct. 9^th.

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Watch “Marathon 4: Road Rogue” streaming live now in real time at markmallman.com!

Read all about “Marathon 4” now via Wired and Minnesota Public Radio, hear Mark Mallman discuss the event on NBC News New York, and see inside the “Marathon 4” van via Minneapolis City Pages!

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Click to watch “Marathon 4” as it happens now!

Minneapolis-based musician Mark Mallman’s 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 15^th and concluding in Los Angeles on September 22^nd.

While traveling cross-country from New York to Los Angeles, the “Marathon 4” van will stop in the following cities to meet, greet and welcome guest musicians on board to jam with Mark Mallman:

09/15 New York, NY (w/ guests Dick Valentine of Electric 6, the Hood Internet, MDNR)

09/15 Pittsburgh, PA (w/ guests Weird Paul Petrosky, Dave Bernabo)

09/16 Detroit, MI (stopping at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit at 4PM w/ guest John Nash of Electric 6)

09/17 Chicago, IL (w/ guests TBA)

09/18 Minneapolis, MN (stopping at Minneapolis College of Art and Design at 5PM and The Hack Factory at 7PM)

09/19 Omaha, NE (stopping at The Joslyn at 4PM CST w/ guests TBA)

09/20 Denver, CO (stopping at Three Kings Bar at 630PM MST w/ guests TBA)

09/21 Las Vegas, NV (Pinball Hall of Fame / guests TBA)

09/22 Los Angeles, CA (Santa Monica Pier Parking Lot w/ guests TBA)

“Marathon 4” sees 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, when 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. “Marathon 4: Road Rogue” precedes the upcoming release of Mark Mallman’s latest album Double Silhouette, scheduled for October 9^th.

Mark Mallman is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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“Mallman’s ‘70s-redolent music could be huge...” – Pitchfork

“Mad pop genius.” – My Old Kentucky Blog

“David Lynch would appreciate Mallman’s world.” – Chicago Sun Times

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Check out the premiere of the Mark Mallman single “Double Silhouette” at American Songwriter Magazine