Transmedia composition and modes-of-encounter

Marko Ciciliani will speak about recent projects centered on transmedia composition: constellations of autonomous works across different media and formats, such as concert works, installations, performance-lectures, and other modes of presentation. While all works address the same field of inquiry, each approaches it from a distinct angle and through different modes-of-encounter, establishing complementary relationships among them. As one such mode-of-encounter, Ciciliani will present a mobile digital instrument based on a multidirectional spherical speaker using higher-order ambisonics (HOA).

About the speaker

Marko Ciciliani (* 1970, Croatia) is a composer, performer, digital and audiovisual artist based in Austria. The focus of Ciciliani’s work lies in the composition of performative electronic music, mostly in audiovisual contexts. Light- or laserdesigns are often integral parts of his compositions. More recently live-video has taken a prominent role in his compositions, by making the manipulation of images part of an extended instrumental design.

It is characteristic of Ciciliani’s compositions that sound is not only understood as abstract material but as a culturally shaped idiom. The exploration of a sound’s communicative potential is as much in the foreground of his work as its objective sonic quality. Ciciliani’s work is characterized by a conceptual approach in which aspects of classical composition, sound and media-studies play tightly together.

The different “genres” in which Ciciliani’s music can be found are reflecting his manifold artistic activities. His music has been performed in more than 35 countries across Europe, Asia, Oceania and the Americas.

His music has been programmed by festivals and concert series of electronic experimental music like Experimental Intermedia/NYC, Club Transmediale/Berlin, SuperDeluxe/Tokyo, NowNow Series/Sydney, Ibrasotope/São Paolo or Findars/Kuala Lumpur; just as much as by festivals for post-avantgarde music as Wien Modern, Ultraschall Berlin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Maerzmusik, ISCM World Music Days and many more.

Special Arrangement

Non-CityUHK visitors are welcome to attend the seminar. Please register here. by 27 March 2026 (Friday), 15:00

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1. All visitors who are not CityUHK members and who wish to enter the University campus must pre-register via the University's Visitor Registration System (VRS).
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