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Mark Solotroff

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Mark Solotroff is a Chicago, Illinois-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 1984. His principal current bands include BLOODYMINDED, an aggressive, extreme electronics group that was formed in New York City, in 1995, directly after Intrinsic Action came to an end; The Fortieth Day, a more atmospheric, psychedelic-industrial duo that was launched in 2005; A Vague Disquiet, a minimal-synth band with latent dark-pop leanings; and Animal Law, a rather slow and very heavy guitar-based band. He also records and performs solo, under his own name, and those familiar with Solotroff know of his ongoing obsession with microphone sound. For his solo performances, he uses an array of microphones to generate oceans of dense, piercing feedback. Solotroff has also recorded low-fidelity analog synthesizer music, since 1993, under the Super Eight Loop moniker. More recently, he has become actively engaged in collaborations with a diverse group of artists and performers.

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.