Marko Ciciliani

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Marko Ciciliani (*1970) is a composer, intermedia artist and performer. The focus of his artistic work lies in the composition of performative electronic music, mostly in audiovisual contexts. Interactive video, light design and laser graphics often play an integral part in his compositions, just as well as elements of ergodic or transmedia storytelling and speculative fabulation.

Ciciliani’s music has been performed in more than forty-five countries across Eurasia, Oceania and the Americas. As a result of his interdisciplinary practice his work can be found in different genres. It has been programmed at festivals and concert series of electronic experimental music such as Experimental Intermedia, NYC, Club Transmediale, Berlin, SuperDeluxe, Tokyo, Ibrasotope, São Paolo or Findars, Kuala Lumpur; by festivals for post-avantgarde music such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wien Modern, Ultraschall Berlin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival or Maerzmusik; just as well as in the context of media art, as in the festival Ars Electronica, Glowing Globe, Rijeka or with iMAL, Brussels. Ciciliani was selected artist of the European funded EASTN-DC Network in 2020-22.

His work has been released on five full-length CDs and three multimedia books featuring transdisciplinary and audiovisual works. A fourth multimedia-book will be released by Mille Plateaux in October 2023. In addition, his music can be found on more than a dozen compilation CDs. In the field of artistic research, Ciciliani has published several papers and articles, mainly in the field of audiovisual composition, a practice, that he termed “Music in the Expanded Field” in a widely discussed lecture of the same title, he gave in Darmstadt in 2016.

Ciciliani is Professor for Computer Music Composition and Sound Design at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He conceived and led the artistic research project GAPPP from 2016-21 in which with a team of artists/researchers he investigated the artistic potential of elements from computer games in the context of experimental audiovisual composition.

In 2014, 16 and 18 Ciciliani has taught as tutor at the “Summer Courses for Contemporary Music Darmstadt”. In 2017, 20 and 21 he was artistic director of the interdisciplinary workshop for young creators ChampdAction.LAbO, as well as of the festival TimeCanvas@DeSingel in Antwerp.

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