NEWS
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October 2025: premiere of BAROGUE, a new large-scale transmedia project
at the ORF-Musikprotokoll in Graz BAROGUE consists of three parts: BAROGUE - Roccoco Carnage (gradus ad parnassum), an installation for moving hyperdirectional speakers, beam spots, mirrors and ceramics, 2025 BAROGUE - Absolute Plunder, for acoustic and electric string quartet, electronics and four video projections, 2024/25 written for NEOQUARTET (Gdansk) BAROGUE - Zero to Circle, a performance for an audience of four persons, for live-electronics, video and laser, 2024/25 all photos by ORF musikprotokoll, Martin Gross |
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October 2025: New video online
PLANETARY RUNWAY audiovisual installation 2009/2025 Audiovisual installation for 8 loudspeakers and 8 strobe lights, placed along a straight line of at least 50 meters. Originally conceived already in 2009, this installation was first realized at Silent Green, Berlin/Germany in 2025. Special thanks to Villa Aurora | Thomas Mann House and Clara Becker. |
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May 2025: New publication online
Marko Ciciliani
Transmedia Composition and Modes-of-Encounter: Navigating Vertical and Horizontal Attention
In: Sounding Future, 2025
Online Publication
Marko Ciciliani
Transmedia Composition and Modes-of-Encounter: Navigating Vertical and Horizontal Attention
In: Sounding Future, 2025
Online Publication
Most recent Release!!!
WHY FRETS? 2083
published by MILLE PLATEAUX and Galerie der Abseitigen Künste
can be ordered at: https://forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/album/why-frets-2083
This publication combines an artfully designed book (design: Martin Stiehl) and a USB-Stick with high-quality audiovisual recordings of the three parts of the transmedia project "Why Frets?". The book offers an introduction to the project as a whole but also expands it with articles from the past and the future (co written by Marko Ciciliani and Nicolas Trépanier), as well as a link to online content.
WHY FRETS? 2083
published by MILLE PLATEAUX and Galerie der Abseitigen Künste
can be ordered at: https://forceincmilleplateaux.bandcamp.com/album/why-frets-2083
This publication combines an artfully designed book (design: Martin Stiehl) and a USB-Stick with high-quality audiovisual recordings of the three parts of the transmedia project "Why Frets?". The book offers an introduction to the project as a whole but also expands it with articles from the past and the future (co written by Marko Ciciliani and Nicolas Trépanier), as well as a link to online content.
“In 1833, Sieglinde Stern, a professional weaver and amateur engineer, invented the first electromagnetic pickup and thus the first electrically amplified stringed instrument. One hundred years later, in 1933, her invention enabled the production of the first electric guitar, which became one of the most popular and widely played instruments in the history of Western music. Yet today, another 150 years later, no one plays this instrument anymore! What led to the rise and fall of the electric guitar? What is it about this instrument that had its suppressed origins in the craft of weaving and that in its final evolution mutated back into a loom? And who was its inventor Sieglinde Stern, erased from history and only resurrected as David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust?”
Published by MILLE PLATEAUX (MP70) and Galerie der Abseitigen Künste, 2023 ISBN: 978-3-948478-19-3 |
Why Frets? consists of three works – an audiovisual performance, a mixed-media installation and a performance-lecture – that illuminate different aspects of this fictional history of the electric guitar from various angles. The story is based on speculative fabulation – a deliberate reinvention of the past.
Rather than pursuing the idea of creating novelties as an envisaging of the future, speculative fabulation and the rewriting of history proceed from an examination of the conditions under which society and culture arrived at their present state. In this way, the three individual works Why Frets? – Downtown 1983, Why Frets? – Tombstone and Why Frets? – Requiem for the Electric Guitar – complement each other in the sense of transmedia storytelling: Each is a self-contained entity, but taken as a whole, the three works shed different lights on the electric guitar, focusing on aspects such as technocultural developments, inscriptions of gender, and social values. This publication combines an artfully designed book (design: Martin Stiehl) and a USB-Stick with high-quality audiovisual recordings of the three parts of the project. The book offers an introduction to the project as a whole but also expands it with articles from the past and the future (co written by Marko Ciciliani and Nicolas Trépanier), as well as a link to online content. This publication was made possible by the generous support of:
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