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| occupation = | instrument = | years_active = 1972–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = | notable_instruments = Fender Telecaster EML 500 }} Mark Allen Mothersbaugh (; born May 18, 1950) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, record producer and visual artist. Mothersbaugh's music career spans more than 40 years. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as co-founder and lead singer of the new wave band Devo, which released a top 20 hit in 1980 with the single "Whip It". The band has maintained a cult following throughout its existence. Mothersbaugh is one of the main composers of Devo's music, and made major lyrical contributions to the band's songs. He is one of the only two members (along with bassist/synthesizer player Gerald Casale) who have been with Devo throughout its entire history. Mothersbaugh began his solo career in 1987 while still a member of Devo. Since then, he has released three studio albums. His other musical projects include work for television series, films and video games via his production company, Mutato Muzika. His lifelong interest in creating multimedia art pieces has resulted in gallery exhibitions of items such as his "Beautiful Mutants" photograph series, postcard diaries, art rugs, sculptures and musical instruments created from salvaged organ pipes and bird calls. ==Career== Mothersbaugh attended Kent State as an art student, where he met Devo co-founders Jerry Casale and Bob Lewis. In early 1970, Lewis and Casale formed the idea of the "devolution" of the human race after Casale's friend Jeffrey Miller was killed by Ohio National Guardsmen firing on a student demonstration. Intrigued by the concept, Mothersbaugh joined them, building upon it with elements of early post-structuralist ideas and oddball arcana, most notably unearthing the infamous ''Jocko-Homo Heavenbound'' pamphlet (the basis for the song "Jocko Homo"). This association culminated in 1973, when the trio started to play music as Devo. Since Devo, Mothersbaugh has developed a successful career writing musical scores for film and television. In film, he has worked frequently with filmmaker Wes Anderson, scoring half of his feature films (''Bottle Rocket'', ''Rushmore'', ''The Royal Tenenbaums'', ''The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou''〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Internet Movie Database )''〕). He also composed for ''The Lego Movie''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕'' Mothersbaugh's music has been a staple of the children's television shows ''Rugrats'', ''Beakman's World'', ''Santo Bugito'' and ''Clifford the Big Red Dog''. He also wrote the new theme song for the original ''Felix the Cat'' show when it was sold to Broadway Video, some music for ''Pee-wee's Playhouse'' in 1990 and the theme song for the ''Super Mario World'' TV series for DIC Entertainment in 1991. The character design for Chuckie Finster on ''Rugrats'' was based on him. Mothersbaugh is known for producing music in video games including Sony's ''Crash Bandicoot'' and ''Jak and Daxter'' series (both music scores were created by Josh Mancell), and creating own music for EA Games' ''The Sims 2''. This work is often performed with Mutato Muzika, the music production company he formed with several other former members of Devo including his brother, Bob Mothersbaugh. Mothersbaugh composed "Having Trouble Sneezing", the distinctive music in the award-winning "Get a Mac" commercials for Apple Inc. He composed the score for the first season of the television series ''Big Love'' but was replaced after one season by David Byrne of Talking Heads. Mothersbaugh also composed the theme music for the American television show ''Eureka'', broadcast on the SyFy channel. He currently composes the score of the Cartoon Network's TV series ''Regular Show''. In 2013, Mothersbaugh appeared on an episode of ''The Aquabats! Super Show!'', an action-comedy series by the creators of ''Yo Gabba Gabba!'' starring the Devo-influenced band The Aquabats, playing the eccentric scientist father of one of the main characters, Jimmy the Robot. Mothersbaugh and Casale have also produced music for other artists including Toni Basil. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Mothersbaugh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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