1. John Maus is a former teacher of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where he later earned his PhD in political science.
19 Facts About John Maus
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John Maus produced most of the music from his first two albums Songs and Love Is Real on cassette tape with an early 1990s sound bank.
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John Maus was born and raised in Austin, Minnesota and had a middle-class upbringing.
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In 1998, John Maus began his undergraduate in music composition at the California Institute of the Arts, by which time he had formed an appreciation for experimental music, such as the work of Michael Pisaro, as well as Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music.
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John Maus is the figure of this situation and of this time, of the cloud, of the spectacle gone online.
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John Maus had self-released CD-Rs of his work, which he submitted to several labels, including Paw Tracks and Kill Rock Stars, but was rejected.
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In 2009, John Maus relocated from Hawaii to a secluded cabin in Minnesota, where he struggled to write material for a third album.
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John Maus envisioned that after he completed his PhD dissertation, he would return to teaching, stating in 2011 that he could not foresee a career in music.
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John Maus immediately started building the instruments that were ultimately used for the recording of his next album.
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On July 28,2018, Joe John Maus died hours before a planned show at the annual Cesis Art Festival in Latvia.
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John Maus's obituary stated that the cause was a "previously undiagnosed heart condition".
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Later in the year, John Maus resumed touring without his backing band.
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Since then, John Maus has played occasional gigs, including a November 2021 performance at the music festival Substance in Los Angeles.
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John Maus had invited Ariel Pink to be his sound engineer for this performance one of the festival promoters recommended against this out of fear of controversy.
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In 2024 John Maus completed a sold out European tour consisting of 43 dates.
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On stage, John Maus is known for his intense displays of emotion while performing.
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John Maus relates his erratic stage demeanor to "the hysterical body".
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John Maus's compositions tend to employ the use of particular modal scales previously associated with Renaissance and Medieval music, which he believes is often mistaken as an attempt to evoke the 1980s.
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John Maus's baritone singing style is often compared to Ian Curtis of Joy Division.