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Mark Trecka is a singer, sound artist, and writer.

Trecka has collaborated with Midwife, Cinder (Cindytalk, This Mortal Coil), Susan Alcorn, Raven Chacon, A-Y/dancers, Audra Wolowiec, Drekka, Walt McClements, Lake Mary, Ben Babbitt, Obelisk Ruins, and others, and has presented workshops on intermedial sound art practices for Dia Art Foundation. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, Salon, Vice, Medicine for a Nightmare, and elsewhere.

Fool Signals is his latest full-length solo release. That recording was preceded by The Bloom of Performance, his second recording for Beacon Sound, praised by PopMatters, Mutant Zones, and Foxy Digitalis, the last of which called the record "as strange and interesting as it is listenable." Both records were released in 2024.

Other recordings include Loping / gestures (2023), which Trecka describes as "a collaged arc of song and sound which includes, among other elements: a longform collaboration with Chaz Prymek (Lake Mary) and contemporary dance ensemble A-Y/dancers." His third full-length solo recording, Implication (Whited Sepulchre Records) was released in October 2021 and garnered praise as among Bandcamp's Best Experimental Music. That recording was preceded by Acknowledgment (2021, Whited Sepulchre Records), Everything Falling Crosses Over (2019, Orphanology) and In Ellipsis Landscapes (2020, The Flenser).

In the first half of 2021, Trecka created new work for broadcast sound and in-chat text for Palestine's Radio alHara and an ongoing intertextual, intermedial sound collage broadcast for Radio Coyote, produced by artist Raven Chacon and supported by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. Both archival and new episodes of this project are rebroadcast on Radio Alhara bi-weekly.

Trecka founded Pillars and Tongues in 2007 and toured and recorded with Dark Dark Dark from 2009 to 2014. From 1996 to 2007, he recorded and performed, both solo and with collaborators, under the name Static Films.

Trecka is a co-founder of the Beacon Prison Books Project, a volunteer-run solidarity program that provides free books to people incarcerated throughout New York State.

He was born in Chicago.