Jeanne of the Dark
for 4 performers, performed by Bakin Zub 49 minutes

1. Vampire
2. Eroticism
3. Canibalism
4. Vamp

Jeanne of the Dark is an exploration of the image of the Vamp. Rather than tell a story, Marko Ciciliani has created an unconventional artwork that derives its imagery and its sound world from a range of reference points transgressing stylistic and cultural boundaries, from vampire movies to eroticism, from heavy metal to cannibalism. The stereotype of the vamp – the seductive but dangerous woman, man-eater, femme fatale, inseparable from the dualistic male view of the female as virgin/whore – is teased out and recontextualised, and a consuming process of attraction and repulsion is set in motion for the listener/viewer. (Bob Gilmore)

Release date: January 2011 by Ahornfelder/Germany

81 matters in elemental order
Marko Ciciliani -no-input mixer solo 58 minutes

'81 matters in elemental order' is a composition for no-input mixer solo which consists of 81 tracks – of 4 up to 90 seconds in length – that should be played back in shuffle mode. Each time the CD is played back, the composition's elements are therefore put in a new, unique order. The tracks are poetic translations of the molecular characteristics of chemical elements, adjusted for the untamed circuits of the mixing board.

Released in March 2008 by Evil Rabbit Records/Amsterdam

Voor het hooren geboren
Chamber music performed by ensemble Intégrales

Contains:
"Voor het hooren geboren" (2001) 16:28
"KörperKlang" (2003) 12:44
"Matrosen, Lepreakranke, Opiumraucher, Spione. Mit so 'ner Familiengeschichte, wie haben wir da wa anderes werden können als Schlampen? (2002) 19:10
"Signboard – Billboard" (2004) 7:46
"Gartenmusik" (1999) 14:27

Released in January 2006 by Coviello Classics/Germany

"The musical worlds created in each piece have consistencu and transparency to them, though they do not follow the usual aesthetic rules and practices of accepted taste; rather they seem to appear as some kind of hiatus in western contemporary music. 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

ensemble Intégrales
Barbara Lüneburg - violin, viola
Burkhard Friedrich - saxophone
Stefan Kohmann - percussion
Claudia Birkholz - piano

"Tullius Rooms"
for piano solo

large scale composition for piano, electronics and soundscapes
(1999/2000) 78:27

Josh Dillon – piano
Marko Ciciliani – electronics, inside piano

Coproduction with Radio Bremen
Released in May 2003 by Unsounds/Amsterdam

"Not the type of CD you will find in your mall's CD store or even in the more eclectic sections of the privately owned music store. For the classical connoisseur familiar with Xenakis, Stockhausen and Cage, this is an album to stimulate and invigorate the ears and mind. Contemporary classical vision is actualized through the meeting of acoustic instruments with carefully chosen electronics, manipulated with imagination and with a thorough knowledge of compositional craft. For the non-academic wishing to take a daring leap into a universe of limitless scope, "Tullius Rooms" is a frontier to experience." Tamara Turner CD Baby

"Bosch tapped the gas pedal and the caprice moved forward"

electronic opera by Marko Ciciliani and Jeff Kowalkowski 
(1995-2000) 62:27

released in February 2001 by No Harm Done/New York

"On the cutting edge of sound and music- innovative music by young composers with energy and enthusiasm for what they do." CD Baby

"Two sound-poets – a bilingual incantation – a 19th c ghost at the wheel – a ritual to begin the new millennium." Pauline Oliveros

Compilations:

"Test Tone Anthology"
Improvisation with Yoshio Machida 7 minutes

recorded in 2008 at Super Deluxe Tokyo
released by Medama Records/Tokyo

"Jorge Isaac Solo"
with

Marko Ciciliani "Quartz Stalagnat" (2006) 18 minutes

Jorge Isaac – recorder
r eleased by Electroshock/Moscow

"European Young Generation"
with

Marko Ciciliani "KörperKlang" (2003) 13 minutes

ensemble Intégrales
released by Zeitklang Records/Berlin

"Music for Baby"
with

Marko Ciciliani "Pavillon" (2000) 5 minutes

Barbara Lüneburg violin/violas
Doris Hochscheid violoncello
Meinrad Kneer double-bass

released by Amorphon/Tokyo

"Kraakgeluiden, Document 1"
Improvisation with Yannis Kyriakides, Lucio Capece and Yoshio Machida

recorded in 1999 at Kraakgeluiden Amsterdam 10 minutes

released by Unsounds/Amsterdam
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