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Mark Solotroff is a Chicago-based artist who works in visual, sound, and performance mediums. As a sound artist/musician, he founded the experimental industrial noise band Intrinsic Action in Chicago, in 1984, and he launched BLOODYMINDED, an aggressive, extreme electronics group, in New York City, in 1995. Solotroff is the vocalist in the darkly atmospheric doom metal band Anatomy of Habit, a group in which he actually puts his singing voice to work. An active band on the live front, the heavily anticipated debut Anatomy of Habit LP is due out in summer 2011.
Solotroff rarely performs solo, under his own name, but those familiar with him know of his obsession with microphones and feedback loops.
In all of his creative work, Solotroff has explored various types of open and closed systems. For numerous years, he has made art about blood. After moving back to Chicago, from Brooklyn, New York, in 1997, he began a job that required extensive air travel. Solotroff spent a great deal of time pausing from small drawings on airplane tray tables, staring down from 35,000 feet, and considering how cities spread out. Looking at his drawings and his paintings, as well as at biology and medical texts that mapped out cellular life, he saw a relationship to how cities grow. He supplemented his library with urban planning and architecture books, which were filled with illustrations that seemingly blurred into those from the medical texts that he had previously pored over.
In all of his creative work, Solotroff has explored various types of open and closed systems. For numerous years, he has made art about blood. After moving back to Chicago, from Brooklyn, New York, in 1997, he began a job that required extensive air travel. Solotroff spent a great deal of time pausing from small drawings on airplane tray tables, staring down from 35,000 feet, and considering how cities spread out. Looking at his drawings and his paintings, as well as at biology and medical texts that mapped out cellular life, he saw a relationship to how cities grow. He supplemented his library with urban planning and architecture books, which were filled with illustrations that seemingly blurred into those from the medical texts that he had previously pored over.
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SongsOfMaldoror Red & White re-unite http://www.last.fm/music/Mark+Solotroff/+images/68620952
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Lee7513 Mark Solotrof had issued two tapes "biology of a rape" (1996) and "in the mind of the monster" (1996) In my noise, power electronics collection stuff these two tapes are some of the best (much better than intrinsic action releases for me)
