pleasant to listen to your work! looking forward to your new album:)

Deeply thank you, merci, arigatou, mille grazie, muchas gracias and dankeschön for all your comments with * from Cio

Cio D´Or © OFF AND ON Telrae 026 (Snippets!)
A1 OFF 
B1 AND ON
Releasedate: 
10"Vinyl @ 19th of march 2015 @ decks.de
Digital: 20th of april 2015

For bookings please contact Laura Callegaro laura@elitemm.co.uk
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Cio D´Or  is deeply immersed in her creative process: developing sound, preparing performances, and composing piano pieces. Her projects are cohesive entities - with tracks serving as crafted fragments of the dramaturgy she shapes in her studio and she bridging the worlds of techno, art, and composition.
 
Her music balances architectural precision with fluid, cinematic immersion. Every element is placed with intention, shaped by an acute awareness of structure and space, and refined over decades of aural sensitivity. Drawing from jazz, classical music, other music currents and through contemporary dance, her sound is also informed by timeless influences like Bartók, Stravinsky, and Bach.
 
A dedicated DJ since the late 1990s, her sets are built with a strong sense of dramaturgy - selecting and sequencing tracks to reveal subtle, hidden connections. She began producing out of necessity, starting with an MPC 2000 and a microphone on the shores of the Sinai Desert. Her expansive output includes two films, three albums, 14 EPs, musical theatre productions, collaborations and several renowned scholarships. 
Text: Theresa Baumel

Silence is my source. Zeitgeist: the noise.
I filter that out.
It’s about the essence. What remains?
Text: Heiko Redlich

Artist Curriculum Vita [Selection]
Education
1977 - 82 first piano lessons, autodidactic learning of xylophone, congas, kalimba, guitar,
1982–85 Private school for contemporary dance, Berlin
1999–today Self-educated studies in music production/sound creation/composition/dramaturgy/filmscore/visual media/ learning vinyl mixing, electronic music techniques, MPC 2000 sampler, field recordings, synthesiser and keyboards, music programmes on journeys and in the studio
Career [Selection]
1976 Conga performer in a jazz band
1981–87 Choreographies modern Ballett in Hanover, Berlin and Munich
1983–85 Teacher in modern dance, choreography and gymnastics atVHS Berlin
1984-86 Modern ballett for André Heller [Fire theatre “Sturz durch Träume“]
by L.A. Ellis, as well as in the cinema film by John Frankenheimer„The Holcroft Covenant“
Dance theatre by B.Seidel
2000-today Publications: Musical theatre, 2films, 3albums, 14EPs, international podcasts
Stage: Over 400 national/international dramaturgical hybrid DJ- and ambient performances
Various national/international interviews
2005 Affiliated member Gema
2010 Resident Advisor Top 100 DJ worldwide [64th ranking]
2013 Composition „Distanz“ for the Taschenopernfestival in Salzburg
2013 Docent Landesmusikrat NRW–“Rmx. Regendered Workshop”
2013 Dommune TV–Tokyo, Japan
2014 PULSA:RE with Brigitta Muntendorf; premiere: Deutschlandfunk
2015 Goethe Institut Sweden„Grammophon“
2015 Docent „Loop–A Summit for Music Makers/Ableton“
2015 Film score Ataraxya [1st prize Int.Dig.Animation Nagoya,Japan] Man on Mars filmmusic
2015 Music for the Haute Couture CHANEL Show Fall-Winter 2015/16 & Karl Lagerfeld Interview
2016 Dave-Festival, Dresden: Music/Dramaturgy for 2 modern-dancers with visuals in a cinema,
assignment Dresden
2020 Extraordinary member of Gema [composer]
2020-25 Further training in classical music theory, piano [e.g.fugues]; conceptual and dramaturgical development of classical and modern  ́music worlds` incl. new sound developments with subsequent project planning thanks to scholarships [in succession]
a) Dramaturg of a Live act[60 Min] with instruments for EU festivals
b) Clavier compositions [52 min] for Film and EU stage
c) Electronic, orchestral interplay (release vinyl, digital „Polar Q“ Kynant Records 019)
d) Concept/composition of a music Trilogy series [3 CDs: clavier|orchestral|ambient] for Publication/stage/acquisition
e) Music portrait of a homeless person
Scholarships: 2x Ministry of Culture and Science NRW, 3x Musikfonds, Gema
2024 Music for the Haute Couture Show LOEWE Spring-Summer 2025
2025 Sound Installation for Francisco Tavoni "The Source" exhibition at Lindberg Galleries Melbourne, Australia

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