~HOWLOOSEANATION~

A performance collective, active 1997 - 2007, was born from a series of ArTribe events
hosted in Lincoln, NE by Fred Mausolf in the early 1990s

ArTribe

ArTribe events were the underground avantgarde incubator in Lincoln, drawing students from the University of Nebraska, educators, artists, performers and coffehouse beatniks into orbit around Dr. Mausolf, a distinguished eye surgeon.

Out of this maelstrum spun an improvised musical group, Lincoln Surrealist Duo or LSD

The lineup varied from time to time but always included Mausolf, the spiritual father of the group, and Mark Baldridge, who came to be its Artistic Director

MUSICIRCUS

Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, in 2005 hosted an edition of John Cage's Musicircus, Organized by the Chicago Composers Forum Featuring more than 500 performers, playing to the largest single-day MCA crowd on record -more than 5000 people over just five hours- Laura Kuhn, president of the John Cage Trust, called it, "the most exciting Musicircus" she had ever seen As a member of the Forum, Baldridge helped organize the performance, designed the logo (above) and brought HOWLOOSEANATION into the performance Click on the Musicircus logo, above, for images of this amazing event! In 1997 the group composed and recorded the soundtrack to Torn Notebook, a PBS documentary on the life and work of Claes Oldenburg who, with Coosje van Bruggen, had installed the sculpture of that name on the campus of the University of Nebraska Lincoln