Founder and Producer Robert Andrew Bowman

Mage Studio is the creative digital work space of producer and artist Robert Andrew Bowman. He began his journey as a conceptual artist and electronic music producer in the late eighties. Early on at the age of eighteen and attending Oak Park High School in Michigan, Bowman was recognized as twenty-seventh in the New York National Scholastics visual artist portfolio competition. This led to the acceptance of what is now known as the College for Creative Studies in Detroit Michigan. 

After only completing his freshman year at CCS, Bowman dropped out to pursue the goth rock band  Black Ocean Drown as one of the founding members from 1988 - 1991.  However, after breaking away from B.O.D. in 1991 and starting his own electronic industrial project called Randolph’s Grin and meeting singer/songwriter Adelheid Winkler in 1994, Bowman really began to break into the music industry. 
Randolph’s Grin released their debut album Melt in 1997 with Cargo Records and Metrop[olios Records Distribution. This debut album called Melt was produced by Kramer of Shimmy Disc Records New Jersey and Mike Clark ( AKA producer of Insane Clown Posse). It was also in this year 1997 that Jesse McClear creator of the Energy Records recording group Heavy Water Factory called upon Bowman to join HWF as a live keyboardist for the 1997 Translucient Amber Tour. This Band was comprised of founder Jesse McClear, Singer/songwriter/guitarist Scott Hixson, and electronic drummer Eric Curry and Robert Bowman on keys. With this tour, they were noted in Alternative Press for being the controversial support act to open for Sisters Of Mercy at the Philidelphia Dark Harvest Music Festival.   

In 1998 while Randolph’s Grin was in the process of producing their second album “Details” life took Bowman and Winkler in different directions. Winkler moved back to Austria and Bowman began the creation of Odyssey Moth’s Tears for the Taking Pool with the help of guitarist Chris Flagg in 1999. 

Odyssey Moth’s Tears for the Taking Pool album was never released due to the band’s short time in progress. They broke up after only playing two Detroit shows and being potentially considered by Capitol Records. It was during this time in 2001 just after 9/11 had happened that Bowman conceived the beginnings of the concept which is now today's Odyssey Moth. However, due to the break up of the initial OM band, Bowman started his solo career in 2003 as Mercury Sparrow and moved to Los Angeles to work for music producer John Vitaly in the Matrix Studio in downtown Hollywood. 

Bowman as Mercury Sparrow created the album Pop-Sickel Girl with the Help of former Heavy Water Factory bandmate Eric Curry as a co-producer and mixing engineer. It was in this same year that Winkler came to visit Bowman in L.A. and invited Him to come to Austria to work on a new Album for Randolph;’s Grin.

This new RG Album which was going to be called The Drinn never got finished due to the destruction of the hard drive from which all songs were on. RG also did not continue at this point due to Winkler completing her education to become a pediatric RN  and Bowman getting Married and moving back to Michigan. 

Although Bowman had married, moved back to Michigan, became a father, and divorced, all from 2004 through 2005.  He had never stopped writing and creating for his music project Odyssey Moth. During the years 2005 through 2010, Robert went by the name Mercury ILacon and created what is today known as Odyssey Moth’s fourth and fifth albums “Lucid Dreams” and “Flicker”. These two albums were also never officially released and are currently being reworked and in production. In 2014 Bowman and Winkler once again reunited and began to work on Randolph’s Grin album Dragon Road. 

It was during this time that Winkler and Bowman created Randolph’s Grin demo for Dragon Road, their third album. Later vis Bowman’s connection with Martin Atkins (Drummer of Killing Joke, Ministry, NIN, PigFace, and Invisible Records owner) led to gaining the help of Iconic producer John Fryer (4AD Record label Producer, Depeche Mode, NIN, Cocteau Twins and many more). Dragon Road went on to launch Randolph’s Grin into the European Market with the help of manager/agent Daniel Heerdmann. This album had several successful singles and remixes like Magenta (remixed by Chris Corner of IAMX), Orange (remixed by, Jürgen Engler of Die Krupps and Daniel Myers of Architect), and the title track Dragon Road (Remixed by Per-Anders Kurenbach of Nine Circles, Shock Therapy, Psyche and Oz Morsely of Kloq). It also led RG to their 2016 first international tour as a support act for the German Goth Rock Band Unzucht. 

In 2017 RG created their fourth full-length album Intent which was produced by Chris Harms of Cameleon Studios Hamberg Germany and Lord of the Lost. Which led to a second international tour with added drummer Jörn Schwarzburger as a support act for Black Map. This album also led to three separate festivals in Europe; The Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig Germany, The Gothfest in Tampere, Finland, and a Gothic festival in Estonia. The recording of Vampire Mode EP (Also produced by Chris Harms in Hamberg Germany) was created at the end of the tour in 2018. 

After what was supposed to be a break in late 2019, COVID-19 started showing its ugly face and thus brought the music industry to a halt In 2020. 

During the Pandemic Bowman created the multi-collaborative music recording project called Plastic Assault Network. He did this for two main reasons. One was to keep busy creating music while in isolation and two, was to keep his newly made connections to the bands he had made friends with while touring in Europe.. 
Plastic Assault Network (PAN) released their debut independent album called Pandem(on)ic which includes fifteen different artists and eleven songs. This album was the beginning of Bowman’s partnership with co-producer Per-Anders Kurenbach. 

Bowman and Kurenbach are currently working on the fourth album for Odyssey Moth which will be out in its entirety next year 2024. With that said Bowman continues today to release several different projects with the focus being on Odyssey Moth, Tangle Garden and Randolph's Grin.    

Chronological Music and Art Project involvement List
Black Ocean Drowning (Gothic industrial project 1988 -1990)
Section Eight aka Four Pound Nine (Never Released Industrial project 1990 - 1993)
Father Crow (fine art and poetry 1990 - 1994)
Floor 18 (Never Released 1993)
Randolph's Grin (1994 to Present)
Twist of Face (Never Released Electronic industrial duo 1996)
Heavy Water Factory ( Live musician tour 1997)
Crash 00 (Never Released Big Beat Techno project 1998)
Odyssey Moth (Electronic Industrial Auto-fiction Multi Media project 1999 - Present)
Mercury Sparrow (Electronic Industrial solo project 2001 now apart of the Odyssey Moth project)
Mercury ILacon (Electronic Industrial solo project 2004 now apart of the Odyssey Moth project)
Mercury Mage (Electronic Dark Dance Music  Solo Project 2020 - Present)
Mourning Joy (Fine Art and Poetry project 2020 - Present) 
Plastic Assault Network (Multi collaboration Electronic Industrial project 2020 - present)
Tangle Garden (Who is his son Aiden Graczyk's DJ Dubstep - House music project that Bowman has produced and currently managing 2022 - present )

Audio Visual Employment
Matrix Studio / Producer John Vitale Hollywood, California (Production Assistant 2003 -2004)
Trinity Scope Productions Detroit, Michigan(Actor / Director / Director of Sound and Score 2010 - 2011) 
Audio Visual Tech Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan 2011
Audio intern Oak Park, Michigan Ringside Productions 2012
Audio Visual Tech Detroit Athletic Club 2012
Audio / Video Producer Via TV / Health Management Systems of America 2013 - 2014
Mage Studio 2014 - Present

Studio Photos

Mage Studio photo taken December 2022

The Wizards Familiar - Data AKA Lionel the Cockatiel