Extático Duo

Mariano Bulligan - cello
Hu Bin - guitar

arrangement by Hu Bin
revision by Mariano Bulligan
recorded by Nicola Buso and the School of Music and New Technologies - Conservatory of Trieste
Mastered by CREA - Centro di Ricerca ed Elaborazione Audiovisiva - Conservatory of Frosinone

this track is contained in the CD -  è     dedicato a VERDI -

Writes about us:

Giampiero Bernardini (Composer, Writer, Musicologist, Professor of the Conservatory of Frosinone) 

from the booklet of the CD:
"Particolarmente efficace, data la natura del brano eseguito è l'arrangiamento per violoncello e chitarra del Preludio de I Masnadieri, opera che è dello stesso 1847 del Macbeth, e con la quale si intreccia per svariati motivi. Il libretto dei "Masnadieri" è del letterato italiano Andrea Maffei, e dello stesso Maffei è la traduzione in italiano di un rifacimento del "Macbeth" di Shakespeare realizzato da Frederich Schiller, traduzione e rifacimento sui quali si rifece l'opera di Verdi. Data la natura del pezzo, quasi una "romanza" per violoncello solo e orchestra, la riduzione per violoncello e chitarra ne conserva e, quasi, ne esalta tali caratteristiche. Anche l'introduzione orchestrale e la breve ripresa dopo la strofa del solista, sono rese efficacemente dalla chitarra. Merito dei solisti e dell'arrangiamento, oltre che della dimensione poetica del brano di Verdi."

sponsored by:

EU Leonardo Da Vinci Program - Lifelong Learning Program
CREA - Centro di Ricerca ed Elaborazione Audiovisiva - Conservatory of Frosinone
WWM - Working With Music
Conservatory of Frosinone
Conservatory of Trieste
Conservatory of Genova
Conservatory of L'Aquila
Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussels

Extático Duo - Ouverture de "I Masnadieri" (G.Verdi) - arrangement for cello e guitar

Cybele & Attis
Improvisation for Drill, Voice, Coffee Machine, and whistlephonies.
(Mariano Bulligan)

voice, whistle, coffee-machine, mix, mastering: Mariano Bulligan 

the improvisation born from the fact that my neighbors were using the drill per hours in the morning. So after some failed trials of sleep I woke up and after some coffee I wanted to play with that environment, and that's the result. 

Cybele & Attis are roman gods, in easter period there was a rite of 3 days dedicated to them, and it's a lot about love, hate, death and rebirth. I sung this the day before Easter, and now that I write this, it's already past midnight, so, it's Easter.

written and performed 30th March 2024

All rights Reserved

Cybele & Attis

Registrazione storica della poetessa e compositrice Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan che canta a cappella la sua canzone "Gnot d'Avost" diventato brano corale della tradizione Friulana

Gnot d'Avost - solo voce - Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan

Registrazione storica della poetessa e compositrice Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan che canta a cappella la sua canzone "Aghe" sulla tragedia del Vajont, nella versione in friulano e nella versione in italiano "Acqua" diventato apprezzato brano corale nell'arrangiamento del M.o Giuliano Fabbro, finalista al  16° Concorso Biennale di Composizione e Armonizzazione di Canto Corale - Verona 2016.

Aghe, Acqua - solo voce - Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan canta Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan

una traccia storica del brano più celebre di Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan, Villotta cantata da molti Cori Friulani

Torne Cisile - solo voce 1986 - Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan

Ave Mari Stele, brano armonizzato dal m.o Giovanni Zanetti è uno dei più eseguiti della Lenarduzzi Bulligan

Ave Mari Stele - solo voce - Elda Lenarduzzi Bulligan

SOTTOTERRA GORGOGLIA (Underground Gurgles)- 2007
for voice, percussions, electrified cello, spoken voice ed electronics

Mariano Bulligan: composition, voice, percussions, electrified cello , electronics
Rita Maffei: spoken voice

recorded by Stefano Revelant at Ren Studio

From Revolt. 3° Episode of Paradiso Perduto (Performance in shape of Episodes by Rita Maffei & HC Capitale Umano.  CSS – Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia production).

The composition born from the wider scene musics of the episode Revolt and wants, in the first part of this version, to recall the themes that gives it birth without using the lyrics of it, even though, continuously recalling them; creating a sort of Symphonic Poem in a contemporary key, autonomic from the theatre work.
In the second part the word return “necessary to close the circle”

The introduction of the piece (before the singing part and in the first minute of it) use, remixed and partially re-elaborated, some music fragments created by the sound engineer Renato Rinaldi. This choice is motivated by the fact that the material that origins Revolt, comes out from the previous production Actes/Revoltes (prod. CSS/Théâtre de l’Astrakan in collaboration with the Centre Dramatique National de Normandie-Comédie de Caen e Florian) for whom Rinaldi composed and it was a desire to recall it with this later work.

“I go. I walk, full of explosives, nobody is ready to receive me... on my skin, a dangerous powder will reveal as I am from the inside. I am not waited, my loneliness opens a passage between you all.” Alain Cofino Gomez

In a non-identified place, and (especially) not identifiable place, a young woman is getting ready to martyrdom pushed my her political and religious faith. It's her last night, in a hidden bunker where she'll be able to pronounce her last words, to express her terrible will of death, to record her last invocations to the god that arm her riot. The episode is inspired by the pages of the Belgian playwright (with Spanish roots) Alain Cofino Gomez, an author that knew how to tell the human body but also the social body, exploring it's riots and it's convulsions, describing with terror, but also with humour, the limits of contemporary human condition.

Sottoterra Gorgoglia ((Underground Gurgles) - with Rita Maffei

from PianoTrio op.100 - Andante con Moto (Franz Schubert)

for electric cello, 
cello ensemble and electronics: Mariano Bulligan
electric cello and cellos: Mariano Bulligan

recorded and mixed at OverBall Studios by Mariano Bulligan
mastered at Angel's Wings Studios by Nico Odorico

for the Theatre Production
PROFUGANZE/BEGUNSTVA 

director: Maurizio Soldà
musics: Mariano Bulligan
by and with Pino Roveredo, Maurizio Soldà
Mariano Bulligan (violoncello, voce, live electronics, little instruments)

Coproduced by TSS Teatro Stabile Sloveno di Trieste, Studio Giallo, Regione Friuli - Venezia Giulia, Università popolare di Trieste, CSS - Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia.

photo credits:Vanni Naspo


“Cosa siamo, dove andiamo, cosa facciamo, e come pensiamo, viviamo, respiriamo, ma soprattutto, cosa contiamo? Esistiamo, non esistiamo? Dove finiremo? Dove moriremo? Ma un giorno può essere che torneremo? Già, chi siamo?
Profughi, come se fosse una colpa da pagare, una vergogna da scontare, una cattiva educazione da sopportare!”
(Pino Roveredo)

Electric Schubert

MR. BULLIGUN UNIT

Mariano Bulligan (voice)
Alessandro Scolz (keyboards)
Ermes Ghirardini (drums)
Alan Malusà Magno (el. guitar)
Andrej Pirjevec (el. bass)

Live in Studio
Recorded between Scolzolandia Studios by Alessandro Scolz
OverBall Studios (voices) by Mariano Bulligan
Mixing and Mastering at AP Studios by Andrej Pirjevec

Butterfly (Jason Mraz) - Mr. Bulligun Unit

There in a dream (Charlie Haden)
Arranged by Enrico Melozzi

Cello Solo: Enrico Guerzoni

cello 1: Alenka Piotrowicz 
cello2: Mariano Bulligan
cello3: Tiziano Guerzoni
cello4: Enrico Guerzoni



Recorded Live 26 January 2018 Capodistria (Slovenia)

photo credits: Mariano Bulligan (Selfoss - Iceland)

GuerzonCellos 4et - There In A Dream - LIVE -

Podcast with my music and interview at
Radio1 RAI FVG - TALENTOPOLI 01/10/2018
- 6:20 - interview part 1
- 11:41 - interview part 2
- 14:49 - track 1: #nOde _ dropped spaces 
- 16:03 -interview part 3 
- 17:47 - track 2: Ricordi e Pressioni 
- 18:50 - interview part 4
- 23:13 - track 3: In This Pain
Idea, writing and conduction of the program: Marco Maria Tosolini
Regia: Assunta Cannatà
Sound Engeneer: Giampaolo Zucchi

Guests of the episode
Vittorio Vella: composer, sound engeneer and music editor (Taukay Studios and Music Publishing House), organizer of Udine Contemporanea Festival, 
Mariano Bulligan (cello, voice, music composition) 

photo credits: Paolo Dreosto Photography

other involved musicians in my music compositions: Parallax, Are Lothe Kolbeinsen, Ulrik Ibsen Thorsrud, Stian Omenas, Paolo Pascolo, Alberto "Jestern" Novello. 

Very Special Thanks to: Marco Maria Tosolini,  Vittorio Vella, Radio1 Rai, PNEK (Production Network for Electronic Art - Norway), Notam Center (Norwegian Center for Tecnology in Music and Art), Per Platou, Notto Thelle, Kato Lagnes, Gyrid Nordal Kaldestad, Studio Giallo, Maurizio Soldà, Pino Roveredo, Tiina Hallikainen, Teatro Stabile Sloveno del Friuli Venezia GIulia, CSS - Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia, AFSAI, Epops Music

Interview and music at RAI Radio1 FVG - Talentopoli - 01/10/2018

Ricordi E Pressioni - scene music

- Profuganze/Begunstva  -
by Pino Roveredo and Maurizio Soldà
theater director: Maurizio Soldà
musics by Mariano Bulligan
in scene: Pino Roveredo, Maurizio Soldà, Mariano Bulligan
 theatre co-production - Studio Giallo/Teatro Stabile Sloveno di Trieste/CSS Teatro Stabile di Innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia

photo: Tiina Hallikainen

Ricordi E Pressioni - Mariano Bulligan (Radio Edit)

Italian artist, his path is between experimentation, academic and extra-academic music.

He plays cello, sings and makes electronic compositions in Agrapha Dogmata (A. Seravalle, E. Ghirardini, L. della Longa, L. Tusini) a fusion project of music, contemporary dance and visual arts. Collaborates with norwegian trio Parallax (A. Lothe Kolbeinsen, U. Ibsen Thorsrud, S. Omenås) . Within the DOB Orchestra and International Orchestra Brez Meja/Without Borders (DOB +  COMBO, Slovenia) has played with E. Parker, T. Honsinger, S. Turkoz, G. Schiaffini, Zlatko Kaučič (Slo), G. Maier, J. Bauer (D), G. Pacorig. He plays and(or) record with 100 cellos by Giovanni Sollima, ORKA (J. L. Thompsen - Faroe Islands), A. Battiston, B. Broening, Parallax, A. Tveit, M. Maltis, L. Hiirsh, I. H. Heidel, A. Majewski, R. pes, I. Oja and others.

As member of Extático Duo(with Hu Bin, guit - China) invited by Giovanni Sollima and Enrico Melozzi he played at the prestigious Ravenna Festival 2016(Ravenna, Basilica di San Vitale - Cellolandia)he performed at renown concert halls and festivals as Solitär, Wiener Saal and Kleines Studio of Mozarteum Salzburg,  Festival d'Europa (Florence) Concert Hall of Frohnburg Castle (Salzburg), Estonian Music Academy Chamber Hall, and more. With Extático Duo he explore contemporary and classical repertoire for this peculiar instrument combination, also working on the arrangements. In 2013 they recorded their original version of “Ouverture de I Masnadieri” for the CD  “é – dedicato a Verdi” for the 200th Jubelee of Giuseppe Verdi's birth. 

he toured Italy and Slovenia with Parallax, featuring ELEM project of M. Messina (99Posse), E. Errante, F. Elvetico - live electronics, L. Antonelli - multimedia artist), DOB Orchestra, P. Pascolo and A. Gulli. 

In 2013 he has been “composer in residence” at Notam Center of Oslo (Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and Art) with PNEK Support (Production Network for Electronic Art – Norway). He developed his project nOdes with Parallax, electronic artist A. Tveit, flutist and composer I. H. Heidel.

“#nOde – electronic composition 4ch + musicians“ (recorded with the supervision of Kato Lagnes e  Notto Thelle) world premiered at Notam Center - Lydmiren Concert serie, has been performed also at Conservatorio Statale di Musica “G. Tartini” of Trieste, in Milan (Macao) and Naples (Ex-Asilo Filangieri).

His compositions “Sottoterra Gorgoglia – Inshallah”, “La Cagna Element”, “La Parola Si Sprigiona”, Gods' Atlas” have been in rotation on  Taukay Web Radio (first contemporary music web-radio in Italy).
“Temperature Dinamiche – Sistema disordinato dedicato a SG”  premiered at Festival di Musica Contemporanea “Luigi Nono” di Trieste (2013) with Agrapha Dogmata and with Dob Orchestra+Parallax at Dobialab in 2014.

Fragments of “Gods' Atlas” have been used by the norwegian sound artist Per Platou for the musics of “Stalker” (Verk Productions) contemporary theatre work winner of "Norwegian Hedda Prize 2013" -“Best performance of the year”, nominee for “best sound design”. Performed in festivals and theater seasons in Oslo, Bergen, Lisbon, London, Berlin, Reykjavik, Tromsø, Stockholm, Trondheim, Helsinki, Gøteborg, Aalborg, Copenhagen.

From 2011 to 2012 (as winner of Leonardo Program European Scholarship) he worked as Chamber Music Collaborator at Mozarteum University (Salzburg - Austria) in the guitar class of Prof. Matthias Seidel (ass. Marco Tamayo) and at Sandor Vegh Institute for Chamber Music (Universität Mozarteum). 

As cellist he played and recorded with orchestras as Mozarteum University Symphony, SFK Euro Symphony Orchestra Klagenfurt, Karntern Landeskonservatorium Symphony, Wien Klang Sinfonietta (2° cello), Orchestra Abimà of Trieste (solo and tutti), Estonian Music and Theatre Academy Symphony, Amadeus Adriatic Orchestra and others.

Mariano Bulligan

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