Mark William Deutrom is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and producer, best known as the guitarist for the

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band Clown Alley in the 1980s, and as the bassist for the multi-genre rock band

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from 1993 to 1998.

Career

In the early 1980s, Deutrom was a member of a Los Angeles-based art co-op called Werkgruppe founded by D. Emily Hicks and Daniel Joseph Martinez. Lori Black was also a member. Deutrom contributed several multichannel soundtracks for Hicks' and Martinez's conceptual pieces culminating in a 23 channel synthetic audio environment for the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival installation entitled "The Peoples of Los Angeles". The piece included multiplex holograms of individuals from Los Angeles reciting soundtracks of their experiences in the region against a constantly shifting holographic audio ambience. Other collaborators included physicist and holographer Lloyd Cross, holographer Sharon McCormack, artist Abbe Don and musician Chili Charles. The exhibition was held at the

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Atelier Gallery in

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. A catalog was published that included 3-D glasses. "The Peoples of Los Angeles" was reviewed in ''The Los Angeles Herald Examiner''. It was also reviewed in the ''

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''. In 1993, following the release of their album ''

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'', Deutrom joined the

as bass player. He had worked with the band previously, producing and engineering the early releases '' Gluey Porch Treatments'' and '' Ozma''. He appears on the 1994 albums '' Prick'' and ''

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'', the 1996 album '' Stag'' and '' Honky'' in 1997. During his tenure in the Melvins, they toured with acts such as Rush and

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. Mark Deutrom left the band in early 1998 to pursue other projects. In 2000, he released his first solo album, ''The Silent Treatment'', which was reissued in 2018. Deutrom played with the drone metal band

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for several shows in 2006.

Alchemy Records

Alchemy Records was an American

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, founded in the

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in 1985 by musicians Mark Deutrom and Victor Hayden that was active until 1989. The

' debut album, Gluey Porch Treatments, was released on the label.

References

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*, featuring the work of Mark and Jennifer Deutrom. {{DEFAULTSORT:Deutrom, Mark Grunge musicians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the Royal Academy of Music Alternative metal bass guitarists Alternative metal musicians Place of birth missing (living people) Nationality missing Melvins members