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

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Cybele & Attis

Original tune and artwork from my rolling series Imagined Pixels.

The Grind

RoboToad

Bonfire (Foje - Laužo šviesa) [English cover]

structured improvisation written and conducted by Giancarlo Schiaffini

DOB ORCHESTRA
Andrea Gulli: computer, sintetizzatore
Giorgio Pacorig: Korg MS 20,  Fender Rhodes
Paolo Pascolo: flauto
Gabriele Cancelli: tromba
Gian Agresti: sax contralto
Flavio Brumat: sax tenore
Mimo Cogliandro: clarinetto basso
Mariano Bulligan: cello
Giovanni Maier, Michele Spanghero, Costanzo Tortorelli, Carlo Franceschinis: contrabbasso
Ugo Boscain: clarino contrabbasso


Live recorded at "Giovedì all'improvviso" Circolo Culturale Arci Misskappa 2012 by Ugo Boscain

post-production by Mariano Bulligan at OverBall Studio

Indigo - Dob Orchestra + Giancarlo Schiaffini

AI Limiti Della Notte. Salvatore Sciarrino

Mr. Bulligun Unit
Down in the Flood (Bob Dylan / Blood, Sweat & Tears)

Mariano Bulligan​ - voice
Alessandro Scolz​ - keyboards
Alan Malusà Magno​ - electric guitar
Andrej Pirjevec​ - electric bass 
Ermes Ghirardini​ - drums

recorded live at The Scolz' Studios (IT) by Alessandro Scolz

voice recorded at The Overball Studio (IT) by Mariano Bulligan

mixed & mastered at the AP Studio (SLO) by Andrej Pirjevec

Mr. Bulligun Unit  - Down in the Flood (Bob Dylan / Blood, Sweat & Tears)

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 -

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.

Cybele & Attis

Mariano Bulligan

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