Press and writings
Short excerpts only, each with its source. Most of the reviews concern Jeanne of the Dark, the Bakin Zub programme that toured from 2008 to 2010 and came out on CD in January 2011. German and Dutch quotations stay in the original, with a summary in English.
Reviews of Jeanne of the Dark
Musically spoken it is very difficult to locate this music. It has the energy of rock, but also the complexity of modern composed music.
Vital Weekly, February 2011
The reviewer heard flashes of jazz and other idioms appear and vanish, the familiar used but not continued in the familiar way, and ended on a word he said he had not used for a long time: a postmodern work.
It can get rough at the edge between pop and classic composition. No matter how you look at it, this is hardcore music.
de Volkskrant, December 2010
Mich becirct, dass die Musik auch in Wiederholungen undurchschaubar bleibt, schillernd – verführerisch.
Bad Alchemy, Germany, December 2010
Bad Alchemy heard heavy rhythmic collisions, amplified sound and electronic noise that challenge rock ears with complexity and a refusal of groove, and make the habits of new music look old. The writer was won over by music that stays opaque, iridescent and seductive even on repeated listening.
Jeanne of the Dark was een krachttoer, geconcentreerd en met overgave uitgevoerd.
René van Peer, concert review "Bakin Zub zet muziek in kleurige gloed", Eindhoven, 25 November 2008
Van Peer called the work a tour de force, played with concentration and abandon. He described Ciciliani's music as excited and wild, always pushing at the extremes of expression, with Thaemlitz's long, full tones washing through the hall in between and the rhythms visible in the lighting. In the fourth part, he wrote, Ciciliani piled the music of the earlier parts into one thrilling mix.
Pop Wall Alphabet at Huddersfield
When Ciciliani played the complete Pop Wall Alphabet, four and a half hours of it, at the Noise In And As Music symposium at the University of Huddersfield on 5 October 2013, Simon Cummings reviewed the evening on his blog 5against4 on 13 October 2013. In 2016 the German magazine Seiltanz published two articles on the work, by Stefan Drees in German and by Cummings in English.
Articles and interviews
| Year | Publication | Author | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Seiltanz | Stefan Drees; Simon Cummings | Pop Wall Alphabet |
| 2010 | Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, July/August | Egbert Hiller | Two-page introduction to the work, based on a one-hour radio portrait on Deutschlandfunk in April 2010 |
| 2009 | VPRO Gids, November | Armand Serpenti | Two pages from an interview of September 2009, ahead of Dromomania and Jeanne of the Dark at November Music |
| 2007 | Rauhnacht, September | Jan Leichsenring | Interview after Map of Marble at the Forum neuer Musik in Cologne; in German |
| 2007 | WAM, June | Aleksander Mihalyi | Long article from an interview in April 2007, covering most fields of his work; in Croatian, with a German translation |
| 2003 | Fake, June | Lukas Simonis | Interview about the no-input mixer; in Dutch |
Writings by Marko Ciciliani
- Dirty Light: the application of musical principles to the organisation of light as an extension of musical expression into the non-figurative visual realm. PhD dissertation, Brunel University London, 2010.
- Das Ohr hört nie allein – Musikalisches Erlebnis jenseits des Hörbaren. KunstTexte, 4/2011.
- Vom Kanon der Verbote und der postmedialen Musik. terz.cc, 1/2012.
- Musical Experience beyond audible sound and its relevance for electro-acoustic music. ICMC 2012 proceedings, Ljubljana.
- 'Dirty Light': approaching lighting in audiovisual contexts beyond its material-immanent properties. Musica Nova 2011 conference almanac, JAMU, 2013.
- Towards an Aesthetic of Electronic Music Performance Practice. ICMC/SMC 2014 proceedings, Athens. He also gave the paper in Belfast, Lisbon, São Paulo, Singapore and Graz.
- Evaluating a Method for the Analysis of Performance Practices in Electronic Music, with Zenon Mojzysz. ICLI 2014 proceedings, Lisbon.
- Scanline Synthesis as a Sonification Method for Digital Images: Techniques and Aesthetics – a critical Reflection. Understanding Visual Music conference, Brasília. The paper list dates it June 2014, the concert listings June 2015.
- Vorstellung einer Methode zur Analyse von Aufführungspraktiken in der elektronischen Musik. Written for the publication marking ten years of the master's programme in multimedia composition at the HfMT Hamburg.