Mark - ProfilesArchive

About Me

My passion is music -- a lot of different types, but mostly experimental, noise, goth, industrial type stuff with various other things thrown in. I do DJ (most recently as part of Dekonstrukt in San Francisco), but I haven't in a while, mostly to concentrate on my own music, but also because I became a little bored with it. In the past, I've also promoted and co-promoted many shows in the San Francisco Bay Area including such bands as Allerseelen, Backworld, Assemblage 23, Imminent Starvation, Winterkalte, Death in June, NON, Imperative Reaction, In Strict Confidence, Ah Cama Sotz, Synapscape, Mono No Aware, Mimetic, Mlada Fronta, Neither/Neither World, R|A|A|N, Tarmvred, and many others...
I have a solo ambient noise project named Conure with releases on Snip-Snip Records, Crunch Pod, Troniks, Immanence Records, and a few other small labels. I'm also in an experimental dark ambient band called 15 Degrees Below Zero with releases on Crunch Pod and Force of Nature. Some people actually like us.
MySpace pages for Conure and 15 Degrees Below Zero:
http://www.myspace.com/conure
http://www.myspace.com/15degreesbelowzero

My Interests

mainly music; cats are great, too

I'd like to meet:

People with cats who love music.

Music:

New Model Army, King Crimson, Fields of the Nephilim, Current 93, Sleeping With the Earth, Genocide Organ, Anenzephalia, Winterkalte, Bad Sector, Tindersticks, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Mogwai, Ghost, Swans, Coil, Daniel Menche, NWW, Death in June, Ah Cama-Sotz, Muslimgauze, Operation Cleansweep, Megaptera, Deutsch Nepal, Borghesis, Ars Moriendi, And Also the Trees, Low, Imminent Starvation, Klangstabil, Fire and Ice, The Legendary Pink Dots, Iszoloscope, Kronos Quartet, Law, Kraken, Inade, Ghost Dance, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave and the Badseeds, Blood Axis, haujobb., K2, MSBR, John Wiese, Ex.Order, Placebo Effect, Randy H.Y. Yau, Raison d'Etre, Brighter Death Now, Propergol, Control, Philip Glass, Mogwai, Calexico, The Black Heart Procession, Sonic Youth, Einsturzende Neubauten Crime and the City Solution, Click Click, Azoikum, Dive, The Klinik, Numb, NON, Pierrepoint, Aghast View, Reutoff, Haus Arafna, Gorecki, Penderecki, Ligeti, Steve Reich, Play Dead, Proiekt Hat, Troum, amgoD, yelworC, X Marks the Pedwalk, Wire, Vromb, Brume, Arab Strap, Telepherique, Dirty Three, and MANY others

Movies:

Brazil, Life of Brian, Dead Alive, Army of Darkness

Television:

24, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Law and Order

Books:

books by Connie Willis, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Storm Constantine, Philip K Dick, Rober Jordan

Heroes:

none -- I don't worship people.

My Blog

video for 15DBZs "December December"

Here's a link to a video of the 15 Degrees Below Zero track "December December" from our New Travel CD, courtesy of Daniel's brother Brandon>:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJmqhPz0XZQ
Posted by Mark on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:23:00 PST

Absolute Zero Media’s review of Conure’s "The Generation of Our Grandfathers" CD

"Conure is very bleak dark eletronic music bordering on noise. The tones that Conure creates are from harsh static to deep rumbles to mind numbing mid level am radio feedback. Mark Wilson ...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 09 May 2008 10:44:00 PST

ReGens review of "The Generation of Our Grandfathers" CD

"Concept noise album presents poignant compositions, but may seem all too familiar without the benefit of emotional context.As the solo outlet of Mark Wilson, one third of 15 Degrees Below Zero, Conur...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:02:00 PST

ReGen Mag’s review of 15DBZ’s "New Travel" CD

"Greater moments of melody and rhythm shine much brighter through a tapestry of dissonant, torturous noise.The trio of Daniel Blomquist, Michael Addison Mersereau, and Mark Wilson are indeed a strange...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:24:00 PST

KZSU’s mini review of 15DBZ’s "New Travel" CD

"Fans of Eno, Flying Saucer Attack, My Bloody Valentine (especially Kevin Shields' work on "Lost in Translation") should definitely take note.1) starts with sparse samples but builds into a lush Flyin...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:21:00 PST

Sea of Tranquilitys review of 15DBZ's

"Three guys playing around with their laptops, samplers, keyboards, guitars, and various effects - that's what you get on 15 Degrees Below Zero's latest release 'New Travel'. 11 tracks of electr...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 04:46:00 PST

Music Emissions’ review of 15DBZ’s "New Travel"

"While most of 'New Travel' is not as noisy and majestic as the opening track, 'Landscape on Film', it is nevertheless a powerful brooding piece of drone rock with a chewy dark center. 15 Degree...
Posted by Mark on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:19:00 PST

Sea of Tranquility’s review of "The Generation..." CD

"Conure is the work of one man, Mark Wilson of 15 Degrees Below Zero fame and this disc which is entitled 'The Generation of our Grandfathers' was inspired by a documentary film portraying the Nazi pe...
Posted by Mark on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 03:14:00 PST

Heathen Harvest review of 15DBZ 10"

"Crescendo. From inanimation to the raucous, Side A: 'Kronos' is a bloom of warbling sounds that unfurls sizzling noise across nine minutes of constant elation. 15 Degrees Below Zero perco...
Posted by Mark on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 03:32:00 PST

Tokafi’s review of 15DBZ’s "Between Checks and Artillery..." 10"

"Anything but a regular noise band: Comparisons to classical music are suddenly not out of place.It is clear that 15 Degrees Below Zero are not your regular Noise band. Yes, that's where they ca...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:31:00 PST