Wandering Stars Suite
Suite of 11 Miniatures for Harpsichord, Celesta, Toypiano, acoustic and E-Guitar, Electronics. For Frank Bungarten
STELLAR - Wandering Stars Suite
Harpsichord, Celesta, acoustic and E-Guitar, Electronics
STELLAR - Wandering Stars Suite is an electroacoustic composition created in close collaboration with award-winning guitarist Frank Bungarten and pianist Marina Baranova. The project refers to the music of Baroque epoch and explores the theme of constellations, of temporary and imaginary connections between astronomical objects that constantly remain in motion.
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Photo by Alvaro Claves
The music draws upon themes of stellar nucleosynthesis and ancient Egyptian mysticism. Channeling the work of the legendary 16th century Danish astronomer/alchemist Tycho Brache, dark romaticism of E.A. Poe and modern stellar geometry, the suite of eleven miniatures references baroque doom, vintage SF film music and surreal click'n'cuts electronics. Scored for historic keyboard instruments, both acoustic and electric guitars and electronics, the music is alternately romantic, ominous, enigmatic and hypnotic.
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TRIANGULATION
Piano Duo, Electronic + Visuals. Virtual soundscapes made of carefully structured noise and distorted silence
Triangulation
Piano Duo, Live-Electronic & Visuals
Triangulation is a process of determining the location of a point by measuring angles to it from known points at either end of a fixed baseline. The performance title refers to a historical method of cartography and describes artistic strategy of the trio. Pulsation, audible landscapes and static sound waves mixed with plastic deformation of the video images reference an endless space made of sound and light which is being mapped during the performance from a „bird’s-eye view“.
Triangulation #4 - Radial
The fundamental openness of the music along with their abstract emotional sensitivity are the starting points for a new aesthetic of the (piano-) sound that unfolds in the ears of the listeners. The interplay between two pianists is structured by strictly ordered blocks of generative music followed by improvised parts. Piano cadences encounter prickly and cold computer generated sounds.
Wide-spanning chords, melodic sequences and cluster drones are transformed in realtime by electronic manipulation into floating rhythms and microscopic loops. The result is a synergistic blend of synthetic sounddesign and acoustic passages that emerges in form of a virtual soundscape made of carefully structured noise and distorted silence – a boundless form of „high-tech meditation“.
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Displaced Meanings
Experimental Turntablism, Solo-Project. Cyber-shamanistic catabasis between data necrology and dazzling geometries of post-narrative structures.
Displaced Meanings
Experimental Turntablism, Solo Project
In 2009 Damian Marhulets wrote his graduation thesis titled „From play back machine to music instrument: Studies on the history of composing with the turntable“. Shortly afterwards he began his solo project Displaced Meanings, in which he occupied himself with the possibilities of the turntable at various levels.
Live @Berghain, with DJ Olive
Displaced Meanings dwells on shining putrefaction of frozen data and skin traumas of the medium. It can be understood as a cyber-shamanistic catabasis between data necrology and dazzling geometries of post-narrative structures. The turntable is considered here an undead machine imbued with necrophilic intimacy of anonymous dreams and meanings; a musical instrument, with which one can investigate hidden details and forgotten traces in trusted musical objects.
In place of a typical DJ setup with two turntables Damian works only with one turntable extended, however, through different noisemakers, effect machines, prepared guitar and self programmed instruments. Some of theDisplaced Meanings performances incorporate visual parts, such as 8bit games worm-eaten with terminal glitches or vintage adult game animations drowned in pixel error slime.
“8 1/2 Bits”, Live in ZKM
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dak ~ ['dʌk 'tildə]
Live-Electronic Trio with David Borges and Kostia Rapoport
dak ~ ['dʌk 'tɪldə] emerged from the collaboration between David Borges, Damian Marhulets and Kostia Rapoport. As a live-electronic trio they realize music projects, improvisation concepts & contemporary music performances.
dak ~ ['dʌk 'tɪldə] puts its special interest on creating a particular form of improvisation with electronic instruments. Making use of both vintage synthesizers and modern digital instruments and computers, dak ~ creates a musical context between old science-fiction sounds and new digital music. Further aspects of its work include performances of historical compositions for electronic instruments (for instance – K. Stockhausen, “Kurzwellen”) and collaborations with other artists.
dak ~ in 2011
dak~ frequently collaborate with museums and art galleries. Among others, dak~ has performed at front of the Tatsuo Miyajima installation, improvised for an exhibition of German photographer Wolfgang Tillman and was a frquent guest of the “long night of museums” event in Hannover. Collaboration with the Sprengel Museum Hannover resulted in establishment of its own electronic music festival “musik für räume” (music for rooms). dak~ members were also active members of free improv music scene and organized two editions of ex.tempore festival for improvised music in Hannover.
Live @KUBUS Gallery Hannover, Ex.Tempore II Festival
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dak~ brought out numerous self-released albums through bandcamp in different trio and duo formations.
DIV3 feat. David Krakauer
11 Renaissance Dances Recomposed. For Clarinet, Piano, Percussion, Cello, Mandolin and Electronic. For David Krakauer
11 Renaissance Dances Recomposed
Clarinet, Piano, Percussion, Cello, Mandolin & Electronics (optional)
11 Renaissance Dances Recomposed is a collaboration between Damian Marhulets and grammy nominated klezmer/jazz clarinetist David Krakauer (NYC). Together with Diversions Ensemble they take renaissance and early baroque music places it have never been before.
Live in Goettingen, feat. David Krakauer
David Krakauer - Clarinet
Marina Baranova - Piano
Murat Coskun - Percussion
Dima Tsypkin - Cello
Alon Sariel - Mandolin
Damian Marhulets - Composition, Electronics