Born in 1970 in Croatia, Marko Ciciliani received his musical training as a composer, music theorist and electronic musician in New York, Hamburg and The Hague. Already during his studies he has collected extensive experience not only in the fields of 'academic' composition, but also in free improvisation. He has written for a variety of settings, including orchestra, ensembles, solo works and sound installations, often including live-electronics or other media like light, video or cartoons. Since 1996 he lives in Amsterdam/Netherlands. He is currently following a PhD program at the Brunel University in London.

Typical for Ciciliani’s work is that it tries to combine seemingly contradictory materials, giving the composition a feeling of experiment and playfulness, with surprising turns and a variety of color.

www.ciciliani.com

“Reflux-Refract” for flute and live electronics 2005

“Reflux-Refract” works with reflections and repercussions of specific sounds of the flute. By means of live processing, including delays, pitch-shifts and time-stretching, condensed textures are created that emphasize different sound characteristics and playing techniques of the flute. In the main part of the piece the live processing makes use of doublings of the flute part, that are slowed down so that the single voices increasingly drift apart from each other in time. The music unfolds as a thick harmonic progression with subtle microtonal inflections, mainly taking place in the lower register of the instrument.