Solo works
The solo list starts with piano pieces from the end of the 1980s and ends, as far as the work lists go, with pieces in which the soloist also sings, speaks or plays the electronics. Several of the later ones stayed with one player for years: Barbara Lüneburg played Alias from 2008 to 2015, Anne La Berge toured Reflux-Refract, Jorge Isaac recorded Quartz Stalagnat, and Ashley Hribar gave Rational Cantilenae in four cities.
Piano
7 works
| Year | Title | Scoring | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Rational Cantilenae in Nine Triads | piano, vocal utterings and lighting | ~15 min |
| 1999/2000 | Tullius Rooms | piano, electronics and ambient recordingsCD recording 78:27 | ~90 min |
| 1995/96 | Appenda | piano | ~12 min |
| 1995 | Kein Titel: für Nils | piano | ~8 min |
| 1993 | Grasps | piano | ~7 min |
| 1990/91 | Jaje i oko | piano | ~12 min |
| 1989 | Aufzeichnungen von vierzig Monaten | piano | ~5 min |
Tullius Rooms is the big one: a large-scale piece for piano, electronics and ambient recordings, listed at about 90 minutes. The recording with the pianist Josh Dillon, a co-production with Radio Bremen, runs 78:27 and came out on Unsounds in Amsterdam in May 2003. Ciciliani plays the electronics and the inside of the piano on it.
Rational Cantilenae in Nine Triads asks the pianist for vocal utterings as well and has a lighting part. Ashley Hribar gave the first performance at the Hochschule für Musik Hannover on 22 October 2008. In the following spring he played it at De Toonzaal in Den Bosch, at the Opera Stabile in Hamburg and at the Zagreb Biennale.
Strings and guitar
6 works
| Year | Title | Scoring | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009/11/12 | Dromomania, solo version | table-top electric guitar, electronics and video | |
| 2007 | Alias | electric violin, electronics, light and laser | ~20 min |
| 2001 | Matrosen, Leprakranke, Opiumraucher, Spione. Mit so 'ner Familiengeschichte, wie haben wir da was anderes werden können als Schlampen? | violadated 2002 on the CD, 19:10 | ~23 min |
| 1997 | Imagen Continua | guitar | ~13 min |
| 1994 | Solo II | violin | ~8 min |
| 1992 | Solo I | violin | ~4 min |
Alias, for electric violin, electronics, light and laser, has the longest stage life of any solo piece here. Barbara Lüneburg played it from 2008, at the Rumor Festival in Utrecht and in Glasgow, until 2015, and on the way in Los Angeles, Cologne, Karlsruhe, Vienna, Lisbon, Limassol, Łódź, Kraków and Bucharest. In January 2010 the two of them filmed it for DVD in the halls of the ZKM's museum of contemporary art, working through the night. The 21-minute version is on Lüneburg's DVD Weapon of Choice (Ahornfelder).
The viola piece with the long German title lasts about 23 minutes. It is on the 2006 portrait CD Voor het hooren geboren, played by ensemble Intégrales, whose string player was Barbara Lüneburg.
The solo version of Dromomania turns the two-piano piece into a set-up for one table-top electric guitar, electronics and video. Ciciliani played it himself in Göttelborn and Kraków in 2011 and at ESMAE in Porto in February 2012.
Winds
4 works
| Year | Title | Scoring | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Quartz Stalagnat | recorder and electronics | ~18 min |
| 2005 | Reflux-Refract | flute and live electronics | ~10 min |
| 1998 | Ventose | bassoon | ~8 min |
| 1994 | Virgo | wind controller and live electronics |
Reflux-Refract for flute and live electronics went on an American tour with Anne La Berge in March 2009: UC Irvine, UC Santa Barbara, Central Washington University, the New Music Festival at Cal State Fullerton and Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. Quartz Stalagnat for recorder and electronics was recorded by Jorge Isaac for his solo album on the Moscow label Electroshock, where it takes 18 minutes.
Virgo (1994) is for wind controller, an electronic instrument played like a wind instrument, and live electronics.
Voice, percussion and performer
4 works
| Year | Title | Scoring | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | All of Yesterday's Parties | voice, electric guitar and live electronicspart of Suicidal Self Portraits | ~13 min |
| 2007 | Crash | a singing percussionistpart of Suicidal Self Portraits | ~10 min |
| 2002 | Lid of fade, metallic soot, to oscillate me, daffodil I+II | part I: voice, harpsichord and live electronics (SuperCollider); part II: harpsichord and live electronics | ~23 min (12 + 11) |
| 1995 | k: die Skalierung einer Bewegung-Tek..kno | a performer and soundtracks |
Two of these became parts of Suicidal Self Portraits, the Bakin Zub programme: Crash for a singing percussionist, which Jonathan Shapiro played at Kampnagel in Hamburg in January 2013, and All of Yesterday's Parties for voice, electric guitar and live electronics. The other parts are listed under chamber music and on the Bakin Zub page.
All of Yesterday's Parties also travelled on its own. Ciciliani sang and played it in his solo programmes from 2011, and the Belgian guitarist Nico Couck took it on an eight-date tour of the United States in October and November 2013. He also recorded it with Ciciliani in 2013 for his album Reciprocity.
Lid of fade, metallic soot, to oscillate me, daffodil comes in two parts: the first for voice, harpsichord and live electronics, the second for harpsichord and live electronics alone, both running in SuperCollider.