// Murcof
( / )Murcof started experimenting with electronic and classical music early 2001 in their more minimalistic expression to bring face to face digital precission with acoustic warmth and try and find harmony and complementation between them.
In the period since the release of his third album, he has collaborated with pianist Francesco Tristano (at this year’s Sónar festival, and on Tristano’s latest album), Erik Truffaz and Talvin Singh (at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival), and video artist Saul Saguatti at the Geode IMAX in Paris. Murcof has scored three feature films, with further soundtrack work in the pipeline. Murcof’s music has been used in countless film, TV and even dance productions worldwide, and he scooped a Qwartz Music Award in 2006.
With his new album Cosmos, Murcof progressed towards a more sophisticated compositional mode, drawing to mind the work of the German electronic pioneers of the ‘70s or the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, as much as the visceral, low-end rumblings of SunnO))) or Coil. Composed almost entirely of recordings of classical instruments, it’s a move away from the micro-programmed sound he helped to pioneer, and his seamless integration of these apparently opposed forms is almost unprecedented.
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