Discography
Six albums are entirely Ciciliani's, from an electronic opera released in New York in 2001 to a book with a data DVD in 2015. Eleven compilations add single pieces, most of them played by the musicians he worked with longest. Albums are listed newest first, compilations by recording date where it is known.
Albums
Pop Wall Alphabet (2015)
- Format
- hardback book of 311 pages with a data DVD
- Contents
- 4.5 hours of music, 27 images, 26 algorithmically generated texts
- Released
- promotional self-release, 2015
The book collects the images and texts of the cycle, with an essay by Ciciliani and one by Simon Cummings. Cummings wrote on his blog 5against4 that the results were "a cross between a scientific analysis and a new kind of sound art", and that he could not recommend the book highly enough. More on the music on the electronic works page.
Jeanne of the Dark (2011)
- Performers
- Bakin Zub
- Tracks
- Vampire; Eroticism; Cannibalism; Vamp
- Length
- 49 minutes
- Label
- Ahornfelder, Germany
- Released
- January 2011
Bob Gilmore described the work as an unconventional artwork rather than a story, in which the stereotype of the vamp, the man-eater, is "teased out and recontextualised, and a consuming process of attraction and repulsion is set in motion for the listener/viewer". The ensemble and its line-up are on the Bakin Zub page.
81 matters in elemental order (2008)
- Instrument
- no-input mixer, solo
- Length
- 58 minutes in 81 tracks of 4 to 90 seconds
- Label
- Evil Rabbit Records, Amsterdam
- Released
- March 2008
Play it on shuffle, as intended, and the elements come in a different order every time. The record also closed Ciciliani's years as a no-input mixer player; the performer page tells that story.
Voor het hooren geboren (2006)
- Performers
- ensemble Intégrales: Barbara Lüneburg (violin, viola), Burkhard Friedrich (saxophone), Stefan Kohmann (percussion), Claudia Birkholz (piano)
- Label
- Coviello Classics, COV 60601
- Released
- January 2006
| No. | Piece | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Voor het hooren geboren | 2001 | 16:28 |
| 2 | KörperKlang | 2003 | 12:44 |
| 3 | Matrosen, Leprakranke, Opiumraucher, Spione… | 2002 | 19:10 |
| 4 | Signboard – Billboard | 2004 | 7:46 |
| 5 | Gartenmusik | 1999 | 14:27 |
As if someone from another time and civilisation had found a manuscript and was brilliantly failing to recreate how music in the early part of the 21st century might have been.
Yannis Kyriakides
Tullius Rooms (2003)
- Performers
- Josh Dillon (piano); Marko Ciciliani (electronics, inside piano)
- Length
- 78:27
- Production
- co-production with Radio Bremen
- Label
- Unsounds, Amsterdam
- Released
- May 2003
A large-scale composition for piano, electronics and soundscapes, written in 1999 and 2000. The review on CD Baby by Tamara Turner pointed it at listeners who know Xenakis, Stockhausen and Cage, and also at the "non-academic wishing to take a daring leap into a universe of limitless scope".
Bosch tapped the gas pedal and the Caprice moved forward (2001)
- By
- Marko Ciciliani and Jeff Kowalkowski
- Genre
- electronic opera, 1995–2000
- Length
- 62:27
- Label
- No Harm Done, New York
- Released
- February 2001
CD Baby called it music "on the cutting edge of sound and music". The opera is described with the multimedia works.
Compilations
| Release | Piece | Performers, recording | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reciprocity | All of Yesterday's Parties, 13 min | Nico Couck, Marko Ciciliani; Champ d'Action studio, Antwerp, 2013 | Champ d'Action |
| Etude gone Badum | Black Horizon, 21 min | Håkon Stene, Marko Ciciliani; ELAK, Vienna, 2011 | Ahornfelder |
| Weapon of Choice, DVD | Alias, 21 min | Barbara Lüneburg, Marko Ciciliani; ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2010 | Ahornfelder |
| Kofomi #7 | Zwischenraumstudie, 5 min | Ensemble Reconsil; Composers Forum Mittersill, 2009 | Ein-Klang Records |
| Test Tone Anthology | improvisation, 7 min | with Yoshio Machida; Super Deluxe, Tokyo, 2008 | Medama Records, Tokyo |
| Anthology of Dutch Electronic Music | excerpt from Map of Marble, 7 of 79 min | Jannie Pranger, Arnold Marinissen, Marko Ciciliani; STEIM, 2005 | |
| Palavras e Sons | Dromomania (job of dying's done), 10 min | recorded at 1492Hz, Vienna | LMElindo, São Paulo |
| Jorge Isaac Solo | Quartz Stalagnat, 18 min | Jorge Isaac, recorder | Electroshock, Moscow |
| European Young Generation | KörperKlang, 13 min | ensemble Intégrales | Zeitklang Records, Berlin |
| Music for Baby | Pavillon, 5 min | Barbara Lüneburg, Doris Hochscheid, Meinrad Kneer | Amorphon, Tokyo |
| Kraakgeluiden, Document 1 | improvisation, 10 min | with Yannis Kyriakides, Lucio Capece, Yoshio Machida; Amsterdam, 1999 | Unsounds |