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May 4, 2020 · Sun Totem #1 sits in the middle of Kent State University’s campus and was regularly passed by multiple future members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, including Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders, Joe Walsh, nominees Mark Mothersbaugh, and Gerald and Bob Lewis of DEVO who were all students at Kent State University at the same time. However ...
May 18, 2020 · Mark Mothersbaugh has made a life of art and conflict. The Ohio native protested the Vietnam War as a student at Kent State University in the early 1970s, and his glimpses of humanity’s ...
Aug 29, 2018 · With campus shut down until the fall and nowhere to go, Casale and friends would decamp to the Akron home of Mark Mothersbaugh, a part-time Kent State art student whose graffiti art had caught ...
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Jul 8, 2016 · Evolution of an Artist. A retrospective exhibit of Mark Mothersbaugh’s four-decade body of work comes home to Northeast Ohio, the place that shaped the subject matter and tone of his visual arts and music. From hand-drawn postcards and mutated portraits to mechanical music makers—it all began against the backdrop of the post-industrial rust ...
- Devo Forming After The Kent State Shootings
- Scoring Rugrats
- Scoring Crash Bandicoot
- Ating Devo 2.0 with Disney
- Working with Wes Anderson on His First Four Movies
- “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “Dare to Be Stupid” Devo Parody
It was a long period of time with the project coming into its identity, from Jerry Casale talking about “devolution” after losing his friends in the Kent State shootings, to the first video, to Bowie noticing you guys, Eno producing the first album. Did you feel part of a particular movement as Devo developed over the course of the ‘70s and sort of...
You’re talking about this film and mixing visuals with music, which defines a lot of your career over the subsequent decades. In the last 30 years, you’ve done a ton of composing. One of the first ones was Rugrats. MOTHERSBAUGH: Early on. I started with Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. I scored an off-Broadway play that Dean Stockwell directed. He was a Devo f...
Along the way you have a children’s show like Rugrats, video games like Crash Bandicoot, all the way to the Mac commercials in the ’00s. Are there mindsets you have to get into to work in these different versions of media or are you always picking from some ether of material you’ve got? MOTHERSBAUGH:Both. They each have things that made them intere...
In the ’00s, you created a new Devo with children singing along to re-recorded tracks with slightly altered lyrics to make them more kid-friendly. I think it was Jerry who said the whole project was “proof of devolution.” MOTHERSBAUGH: I’ll tell you the most unfortunate thing about that project: It happened exactly one second after High School Musi...
In film scoring, you’ve done everything from Wes Anderson’s early movies to very big budget mainstream stuff, like The Lego Movie — or it particularly blew my mind to find out you scored Thor: Ragnarok. I was curious what it’s like to go from that world with Wes, with a sort of shared aesthetic, to some of these other projects where you might be wo...
There’s an interview with you where they ask you about this song and you say: “I was in shock. It was the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard. He sort of re-sculpted that song into something else. And, um… I hate him for it basically.” I was wondering what you actually felt about this parody, but also to just see Devo material in other people’s han...
Oct 12, 2023 · Devo’s founders studied visual arts at Kent State University, where on May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard shot dead four antiwar protesters. The school shut down the next day, and in the ...
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Jan 22, 2024 · By the time it settles into a music-doc groove and begins tracing the history of the group from a collaboration between Kent State students Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh to Eighties alt-rock ...
