The music of Marko Ciciliani, 1989 to 2018

Marko Ciciliani writes for instruments and electronics, and since the mid-2000s many of his pieces have carried their own light, laser or video part. Below are all 93 known works, grouped by genre with the newest first; the other pages add six albums, the four programmes of his ensemble Bakin Zub and more than 200 dated concerts, lectures and courses. Everything comes from work lists, concert announcements, record sleeves and press texts published between 2003 and 2018, and the about page says how to send corrections.

Piano, strings and guitar, winds, and pieces for performers who sing.

Duos to quartets, with Black Horizon, Dromomania and Map of Marble.

Ensemble scores of the 1990s, muzART and a piece with megaphones.

Studio pieces, no-input mixer, synthesizer and laser, Pop Wall Alphabet.

Early multimedia, film music and the game pieces of 2013 to 2018.

The four evening-length programmes, and the closing part of Suicidal Self Portraits on its own.

Two pieces known only from recordings; no source gives their scoring.

Reading the tables

Each work appears with the year of composition as the sources give it, the scoring and a duration. A tilde means the duration was only given as approximate; an empty cell means none was given. Titles keep their original spelling, German, Croatian and Dutch ones included.

Where two sources disagree on a title or a date, both are kept and the difference is written out under the chronological catalogue. The performance history works the same way: it lists what was announced, and a cancelled concert is marked as cancelled rather than left out.

Five pieces to start with

1. Pop Wall Alphabet (2011–15). Twenty-six pieces, each made from a well-known album whose tracks are laid over one another and frozen into noise. Played complete it lasts four and a half hours, and Ciciliani did exactly that in New York in 2011, in Huddersfield in 2013 and twice in Hong Kong in 2018.
2. Jeanne of the Dark (2008). An evening for Bakin Zub about the vamp as a screen figure, written partly with Terre Thaemlitz. Scenes from the silent serial Les Vampires ran through the projections. On CD since January 2011.
3. Black Horizon (2009). Two electric guitars lie flat on a table and four percussionists play them. No piece in the catalogue was taken up by more ensembles: ICTUS, Decoder, Plus Minus, Ensemble This | Ensemble That and others.
4. 81 matters in elemental order (2007). A CD for no-input mixer with 81 short tracks, one for each chemical element. It is meant for shuffle play, so the order changes every time you put it on.
5. Intersection (2013). Nine minutes of live electronics and live video built on a Zürich crossroads filmed twice, in daylight and after dark, with a police-radio voice in the sound.

The rest of the catalogue