Does anyone out there still write songs that are interesting, with melodies and lyrics and meaning?  -  Yes!

Mark Baughman is a composer, guitarist, playwright, visual artist and architect (yes, really, an architect). Based in Washington, DC, Mark writes songs that are more than stories - they are movies with vivid characters and real emotions. The songs have carefully crafted lyrics, melodies and song structures. Mark is incredibly versatile and prolific, easily moving from one genre to another to express what's on his mind and in his heart.

Mark has written and produced to stage 3 rock operas - 99, Release and Energie. Each tells a story of complex contemporary adult life. He is presently writing his 4th show, entitled Victoria Falls, and he posts the new songs as they are completed. 

Between the rock operas, Mark has produced 5 other albums - She Dreams of the Ghost, Charmed Life, Victoria Falls, No Prophet Here and Divided by Zero - which further showcase his songwriting dexterity and musicianship. 

Mark's live band is called Working Theory and takes different forms depending on the show  and venue. And he's busy now working on the next thing.

When I first started writing music, it was a means to express how I felt. I had no voice and I was very alone. I was abused, teased, bullied...I was made to feel less than human. I carried myself wondering 'what's wrong with me?'

As an adult, it wasn't any easier. I was homeless, helpless, and hopeless. I attempted suicide a number of times, I just didn't want to live anymore. When your pain is greater than your ability to cope, you get desperate.

Through therapy, counseling and medication my mental disabilities of PTSD, depression, panic and anxiety attacks are for the most part stable. With a clearer mind, and maybe being older too, I realize that all that time growing up I thought I was the problem, when I never was. All those wasted years all due from a lack of being loved and protected. Still, so stands this man before you...stronger, talented, smarter..

Imperfectly perfect.

We will all have our days, but just remember, no matter what you're going through, that you are perfect just the way you are. It is perfectly natural to feel anything you feel, but it is what you do when you are feeling these emotions that define you!

Love who you are and be kind, always. You never know what anyone is going through :)

I touched a piano for the first time when I was five. You could say it was love at first sight, and I took advantage of every occasion to make hideous sounds on two tiny little keys. I wasn’t very good until I became decent, and my zeal has lasted for years. The people who showed me the piano doomed me to a lifetime of passion and zero interest in anything but music. 
 
Over the years, I’ve been a self-taught artist who preferred to “steal” techniques and inspiration from those who were better than me, hoping that the student would become the teacher one day. Given the fact that I’m now a modern piano teacher at the “L’Altrosuono” school in Brescia, you could say that I kinda made it. 
 
When I’m not performing, composing, recording music in my studio, or using the piano as brain food, you may find me cooking actual food and cycling around the country to work it off. I also happen to be tech-savvy and am able to produce pieces for IT-related projects.

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Each tune is like the proverbial ship of Theseus - played,  replayed and parts replaced as collaborators come and go,  improvised , edited and mixed until it sounds like something vaguely right... at least to me...but is it the same tune?

im a guitarist at heart but my creativity has taken me in many different directions, so keep an open mind and enjoy 

Mark Baughman&#x27;s Working Theory is following

Mark Baughman's Working Theory is following