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Damian Marhulets was born in Minsk in 1980. His musical education has been developing through playing oboe and piano towards composition and electroacoustic music, that he studied in Hanover and Cologne. He is a founder and participant of many musical projects spanning contemporary classical music to live-electronic improvisation, glamourous noise and perverse pøp. His major interest lies in anti-logocentric territories of sound and anarchitecture of music data.

( –photo by Masharova )

Selected Performances:

Among others, Damian Marhulets performed at such festivals as “Music21″ contemporary music festival (Lychow, Germany), “Ex.Tempore” Festival for improvised music (Hanover, Germany), “Re:New” digital art festival (Copenhagen), “10ms” microsound music festival (New York), “PlayWithFire” video art Festival (New York) and others. His works were presented at such places as the Sprengel Museum (Hanover), Kestnergesellschaft Gallery (Hanover), Gallery Robert Drees (Hanover), Art Center (Berlin), Kunstsaele Gallery (Berlin), Monkey Town (NY), Issue Project Gallery (NY), Diapason Sound Art Gallery (NY), DAVID vzw Gallery (Ghent), Philharmonic Hall (Essen), ZKM (Karslruhe) and STEIM (Amsterdam).

He also performed at the Music Triennale Cologne 2010, at the “New Talents” Art Biennale Cologne and at the Beethovenfest 2011 (Bonn, Germany). His works has been broadcasted by NDR Hanover, WDR and German Radio.

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Artistic residences:

• ZKM – Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany ( 2011 )

• ACROE - Association for the Creation and Research on Expression Tools, Grenoble, France ( 2010 – 2011 )

• Ionian University, Corfu, Greece ( 2010 )

• STEIM – Research & Development Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands ( 2011 )

• Martin Kausche Atelie, Worpswede, Germany ( 2012 )

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Selected Works:

• “Descent”  ( 2005, Music Theater, Based on Works by C.G.Jung )

• “Cypher”  ( 2006, for Pipe Organ Solo )

• “Blue Notebook Nr.10″  ( 2007, Music Theater, Based on Works by Daniil Charms )

• “Space / Place / Object”  ( 2007, 94 Sound-Objects, for 8 Instruments )

• “Coke Spoon #2 – 14 Tracks for a Discontinued Object”  ( 2008, for String Trio, Percussion, Piano and Oboe )

• “/_ temp 1-3″  ( 2008, for „Ableton Live“ Software )

• “Miniatouren”  ( 2009, for Live-Electronic, Collaboration with David Borges )

• “Strange Beauty of Second Use”  (2009, for Voice, Turntables, Synthesizer, e-Guitar || Card Set )

• “Playful Things”  ( 2009-2010, One-Channel Video Installation, Based on Vintage Porn-Movies )

• “Displaced Meanings: 8 1/2 Bits”  (2009,  A/V Performance for Turntables & Live-Electronic )

• “FN0RD – Fabulous Noises”  ( 2011, Electronic Tape-Piece )

 

Releases:

• “transit.nihil” ( 2011, solo: oboe & electronic ) on Auster Records, Munich

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Past & Current Projects:

• Sky Scribe  ( truly legendary and totally unknown project; violent-core free jazz with black-metal influences )

• Composers Improvisation Trio  ( with Kostia Rapoport & Oleg Dziewanowki )

• dak~ [dak.tilde]  (electronic trio with Kostia Rapoport & David Borges; glamorous noise, digital wonky free-jazz )

• 2D~ [2d.tilde]  ( raw electronics, improvisation duo with David Borges )

• Transit.Nihil  ( solo-project, oboe + live-electronic; obscure ambient scapes, nihil jazz )

• Displaced Meanings  ( solo-project, experimental turntablism )

• DJ Hashimato  ( lo-pop diamonds, hysterical beats, cynical grooves )

• Without Additives No Stars Bigband  ( trash-core, perverse-pøp trio with Julia Mihaly and Sebastian Wendt )

• High But Under Control  ( electroacoustic free improvisation, with Jerome Bertholon and Omer Chatziserif )