Mutato Muzika

Mutato Muzika is Mark's own label; Bob Casale and Bob Mothersbaugh work with him. Mark and Bob 1 write the music, Bob 2 engineers it. Denis M. Hannigan often works on the same shows as Mark, and emails his MIDI data to Mutato via America Online. They're doing quite well finding contracts these days. Their address is:

Mutato Muzika
8760 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90069
(213) 650-0561
boojiboy@mutato.com

Their web site is http://www.mutato.com.

Much of the Devo-and-friends discography is currently available there, as are copies of the books "What I Know, Volume 1" (Mark's art & autobiography) and Booji Boy's "My Struggle". If you're looking for the latest Devo output, check there.

TV Credits

Mark has been nominated for about 3 Emmy awards!

• The Fred Savage sitcom "Working" used "Working In A Coalmine" for the opening credits and is scored by Mark.
• "Dumb And Dumber" on ABC. "Life's Work". "The UnNaturals" on the Ha! network. "Common Law", "Courtyard", "Hotel Malibu", "South Beach", "Down on the Waterfront".
• A MIX magazine interview with Mark mentions that Mutato has scored commercials for Lifesavers and McDonald's. There is also the infamous Coca-Cola commercial with the words "submit" and "obey" hidden in the jingle. Other clients include Nike and 7-Up.
• "12 Months", Russian animation from the 50's with a new score by Mark.
• "Kevin's Kitchen" and "Santo Bugito".
• "Rugrats": Mark provided the voices of "Jingle Reptar" and "Singer" in season one. He and Denis M. Hannigan score both "Rugrats" and the "Weinerville" series on Nickelodeon. Recent episodes have a new closing theme, featuring Mark's voice. Bob M's name has been spotted in some credits.
• "Liquid Television" on MTV. Mark did the theme music, and himself and Bob 1 sometimes work on music for the animated shorts as well.
• Mark and Bob 1 are "touching up" old Popeye soundtracks.
• "Strange Luck", "Great Scott" (Mark sang for this one, and at first I thought it was Jane's Addiction!), "Medicine Ball" and "Sliders" (with Denis, though he's uncredited) on Fox. Mark has directed at least one episode of Sliders. Dennis McCarthy (former "Star Trek: The Next Generation" composer) scored the two-part pilot and Mark took over for the series. Also "AJ Timetraveler" (?!) and "Too Something".
• "Muscle" on the WB network.
• "Davis Rules" from ABC to CBS to cancellation. He sang a little (in "scat" style, that "bippity-bop-bop-ba-doo" stuff) at the end of the intro theme. Plus "Dumb & Dumber".
• The short-lived "Mann and Machine" (ran from April to August 1992) and the "Perpetually Grinning Man" saturday-morning bumpers, featuring Mark as the voice of PGM, on NBC.
• "Pee Wee's Playhouse", including "Pee Wee's Christmas Special" which is on video. You know why this was cancelled. Also "Beakman's World" with Denis Hannigan, which is doing quite well so far on CBS. It's now turned to Mark, Rusty Andrews, Josh Mancell, David Kendricks, and John Dentino. The new "Felix the Cat" starts this fall on CBS and MutMuz is rumored to be involved.
• From Denis himself:

  Music for "Adventures in Wonderland" [on The Disney Channel] was done by a lot of song writers including Bob Mothersbaugh & Bill Mumy. The underscore on 100 shows was pretty much split by Denis M. Hannigan (42 shows) & Rusty Andrews (most of the balance).

• Also Mark and Denis on Disney's "The New Shaggy Dog" TV-movie.
• "FutureQuest" on PBS.
• The children's video "Frosty Returns" (with Denis). He also did "Will Vinton's Claymation Easter," which featured Mark as the voice of the Easter Bunny; At one point in the show, Mark actually sang a song! I am kicking myself for not taping this the first time I saw it, since I haven't yet seen a rerun, and this aired a few years ago.

Movies

• "The Last Supper" (on TVT Soundtrax)", and supposedly "The Birdcage" (someone else is credited on the movie poster -- can someone who has actually seen the movie please let me know the poot on this?) "Class Reunion", "Big Squeeze", "Independence".
• "Bottle Rocket" 
• The Adam Sandler movie "Happy Gilmore" was scored by Mark.
• "She Fought Alone" by Mark.
• "Four Rooms" was recorded by Combustible Edison at Mutato Muzika, produced by Mark, and engineered by Bob 2.
• "It's Pat", about the androgynous Saturday Night Live character (with Denis).
• "Flesh Suitcase".
• Two tracks on "The New Age": "Peter and Katherine's Theme" and "Flower Shop Muzika".

CD-ROM

• Fox Hunt, from Capcom (with Denis), soundtrack availible on Rhino Records. This was the first time a video game's soundtrack was released on audio CD.
• Johnny Mnemonic.

Art

• Mark did the cover art for Henry Rollins' Hot Animal Machine and Rollins' book Pissing In the Gene Pool.
• He also has at least one work in Revelation X, the Church of the SubGenius book.

Other Stuff

• Mark is a member of Keyboard magazine's advisory board, effectively putting him in the company of other keyboard legends such as Chick Corea and Keith Emerson.
• The Sept. '95 issue of Wired has a small article on Mark and MutMuz.
• Mark is a member of the Church of the SubGenius; he appears in the "Arise" videotape and has done a version of "Beautiful World" for them (using the word "BoB" for each note) on the "Ear Of Bob" album.