For more than 10 years Marko Ciciliani's primary performance medium was the mixing board 'sans instruments', using only feedback from the machine itself.

He has made a reputation of being the virtuoso of the abstruse practice of playing a no-input mixer. Unlike the minimalist layerings that the no-input mixer became known for, Ciciliani gives very textured performances, allowing the cross- interference of feedback from the circuits grow into complex patterns. He’s performed on the no-input mixer with Fred Frith, Gordon Mumma, Roberto Fabbriciani, Axel Dörner and Sachiko M, amongst others. In March 2008 the Amsterdam-based label Evil Rabbit Records (www.evilrabbitrecords.eu) released Marko Ciciliani’s solo no-input mixer CD "81 matters in elemental order”. The CD 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.

Recently Ciciliani has replaced the no-input mixer with a semi-modular Cwejman S1Mk2 analog synthesizer. This powerful instruments enables him to transfer much of his experience with the no-input mixer into the realm of patchable synthesizers. By adding a 'oms to cv' converter (designed and built by Lex van den Broek) to the setup, he can be co-controled the synth from a computer which expands the possibilities of the instrument even further and makes it more controllable for composed works.