Most of Mark's life has been dedicated to his most prolific
music endeavor, DEVO - a college art project that
blossomed into a long career for the Akron quintet.
DEVO
is widely known and respected as one of the most
important bands to emerge from the 70's & 80's.
Starting with
their debut LP in 1978, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are
Devo!, DEVO continued to release nearly 20 albums over
the next 20 years, and spread their controversial message
about the
devolution of the human race to a worldwide audience.
They punctured the mainstream with their 1980 hit, Whip
It, and
reached millions of people who would have never heard
their
unique brand of music without major label distribution
and radio airplay. They continued to release albums
which featured minor
hits throughout the 80's, and still find time to perform
sporadically.
Mark
still creates music on a daily basis at Mutato Muzika,
his Los Angeles based company which is responsible for
a
plethora of current television, movie, and commercial
scoring. Mutato's recent projects include the movies The
Royal
Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Welcome to Collinwood,
and
Rugrats The Movie. Recent scores for TV include
The Mind of the Married Man, Hidden Hills,
MD's, ads for Target and Swiffer,
as
well as the children's shows Rugrats and Clifford
the Big Red Dog.