From the album 'The Sleeper Awakes' out now.
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The Sleeper Awakes 

Ben Chatwin - Darwinism

Music (Excerpts) from the contemporary dance piece "Momo" Based on the book by Michael Ende. The music was composed for the ballet company of the "Landesbühnen Sachsen" under Wencke Kriemer de Matos.
Choreography: Wencke Kriemer de Matos
Music: Michio
Sets and costumes: Stefan Wiel
Foto: Hagen König


Momo Takes Courage + Showdown

Musical excerpts of the contemporary dance production "Stadt der Blinden" by COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES.
Check also the video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgqTYlo43A&feature=youtu.be
Foto: Klaus Handner

Small Spaces (Excerpt)

Musical excerpts of the contemporary dance production "Stadt der Blinden" by COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES.
Check also the video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs3uEiRN208&feature=youtu.be
Foto: Klaus Handner

The Rape (Excerpt)

This is an excerpt of the full-length stage music for "House of Bernarda Alba", a production of the "Ballet of Saarland State Theatre" under Stijn Celis
Foto: Bettina Stöß
Choreografie: Stijn Celis
Musik: Michio
Bühne: Katrin Gerheuser
Kostüme: Catherine Voeffray
Live-Musik: Michio
Choreografische Assistenz: Claudio Schellino, Eri Iwasaki


Angustias (Excerpt)

An excerpt of the music of the contemporary dance theater piece "Phaidra- The Virtuosity of Pain" of COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES.
Composition, Recording, Arranging, Mixing, Programming such as all instruments played  by Michio 
Photo: Klaus Handner

Fear (Excerpt)

Excerpts of the contemporary dance piece "Blinzeln, Zwinkern und Drehen" by Cooperativa Maura Morales, created for the Ballet Vorpommern for the TanZZeiT 2017.

Tänzer*innen: Laura Cristea, Isabella Heymann, Emilia Lakic, Melissa Mastroianni, Nathan Cornwell, Miguel Rodriguez, Leander Veizi Choreographie: Maura Morales Musik: Michio Woirgardt Choreographische Assistenz: Adonai Luna Dramaturgie: Franziska Lüdtke Licht: Thomas Haack Inspizienz: Nadim Hussain
Eine Produktion des Theater Vorpommern Ballettdirektor: Ralf Dörnen

Hironymus´Hell (Excerpt)

Musical excerpts of full evening piece КОЖА (From Skin to Skin) by Cooperativa Maura Morales, a commissioned work for the Provincial Dances Theatre in Yekaterinburg/Russia
Music: Michio Woirgardt
Choreography: Maura Morales 
Dancers of the Provincial Dances Theatre company: Ksenia Kaplun, Valeria Kalugina, Ludmila Voronina, Ekaterina Zanina, Alexandra Stolyarova, Anastasiya Sokolova, Anton Shmakov, Riedon van den Berg, Anton Lavrov, Aleksey Slutskii, Damir Smailov, Mikhail Leskin 
Light Design: Grace Morales Suso, Video: Manfred Borsch, Costume: Marion Strehlow 
КОЖА is founded by the Goethe Institue Moscow

The Art Of Touching (Excerpt)

Pyschma (Excerpt)

MURCOF + PHILIPPE PETIT: 1st chapter
(LP + CD + Digital / Rev. Lab. - Aagoo)

Release date: September 2013

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Fernando Corona
Hailing from Tijuana, on the Mexico/US border, and now a Barcelona resident, Fernando Corona rose to attention as part of Mexican collective Nortec, mostly for his work as Terrestre, but it is with another project, Murcof, that he has made an extremely strong impact. Merging micro-beats with samples of contemporary classical music, his work, often crystallised into sweeping haunting pieces, bridges the gap between Arvo Pärt or Henryk Górecki and part of the electronic scene of today. He is credited with being one of the main influences of the likes of Erik Skodvin and of many of the artists who have appeared on Miasmah in recent years.
www.murcof.com

Philippe Petit
This self-styled musical activist began his career as a journalist and DJ in his native Marseille, and went on to form Pandemonium Rdz., a label with which he explored the outer reaches of experimental rock, before turning his interest to electronic music by setting up BiP_HOp Records at the beginning of the noughties. Since 2009, his focus has shifted once again, this time on his own music, a refined blend which can incorporate elements of experimental rock rock or classical music and can take the form of complex electronic, electro-acousticism, experimentation or turntablism. Although Petit occasionally works alone, it is in the collaborative space where he truly thrives, casting his sonic world against that of the likes of Eugene S. Robinson, Lydia Lunch, Pietro Riparbelli, Bella Emerson, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Asva & loads more... 
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The album
The meeting of such unconventional musicians was always going to result in a pretty incredible piece of work, but confronting such strong identities and getting them to work together was not a given. For the past three years, Philippe Petit and Fernando Corona have regularly played live together, undoubtedly refining their collaboration with each new performance and finding the right balance between their respective sound worlds. The result is this album which equally finds its roots in Murcof’s modern classical influences and Petit’s coarse post modernist soundscaping.
The album may barely reach the forty minute mark, but in the space of three tracks, Corona and Petit create a magnificent soundtrack which teems with haunting choral chants, lush string work and unsettling atmospherics. This album is rooted in ancient myths and legends, borrowing from Greek mythology for "The Call Of Circé", daughter of Helios and powerful enchantress, and winged divine horse "Pegasus", or from Nordic tales of giant squid-like sea monsters on "The Summoning Of The Kraken". This very much characterises the epic proportions of this album, echoing in parts the amplitude of Murcof’s "Cosmos" (Leaf, 2007), and in others Petit’s equally ambitious "Off To Titan" (Karlrecords 2010), but they temper this with much more delicate moments, for which they assemble incredibly detailed and refined atmospheric passages.
Clocking at just over twenty minutes, the opening piece "The Call Of Circé" is articulated around a series of sequences which range from stern, doom-like guitar stabs and harsh percussive noises to eerie choral laments and theatrical vocal flourishes. The haunting melodies and ambiences of the first half are slowly broken apart by the recurring thuds of metallic percussions. When these recede, the mood has become darker, grittier, more oppressive, and remains as such for much of the remainder.
"Pegasus" recalls some of the more baroque treatment Murcof experimented with on his commissioned work for Les Grandes Eaux Nocturnes de Versailles, especially through his use of the viola de gamba as a primary sound source, but this sound source becomes corrupted as the track progresses, perhaps subject to Philippe Petit’s radical decay processing, until only a few distorted strands of grating bowed strings remain.
With the last track, Corona and Petit opt for an overall softer, warmer atmosphere, but there is a lingering feeling of impending danger lurking below the surface of the whole piece. This is marked by the use of sparse percussions, magnified vinyl crackles and processed guitars and textures which, assembled in various combinations, weight heavily on the otherwise almost pastoral nature of the composition.
Philippe Petit knows how to find collaborators with whom he can go beyond his own sonic universe and make them venture into unfamiliar territories, and he is an expert in making these collaborations gel perfectly. And this is one hell of a collaboration: two artists, each with this visionary approach, working together to create a truly magnificent piece.
WRITTEN BY Bruno Lasnier / January 2013 (www.themilkfactory.co.uk/st/)

MURCOF & PHILIPPE PETIT : The call of Circé

Music for Contemporary Dance, Dance Drums; Volume One

Line

Line(Aidan Kane Munn)

Guitarist, composer and sound artist MICHIO studied both at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, and the Saarland Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
As a guitarist, he regularly tours Europe and Japan, both as a soloist and with various ensembles, appearing as a guest musician at various prestigious international guitar festivals. A prize winner of numerous guitar competitions, he has also worked both as guest and stage musician with renowned orchestras as well as state theatres like the Saarland State Theatre, the Darmstadt State Theatre, the Lohorchester Sondershausen, the Oldenburg State Theatre, and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.
Michio’s compositional work ranges from commissioned works for classical ensembles and soloists, over stage music for ballet pieces, to film scores and contemporary dance theatre projects in the independent scene.
His work therefore includes compositions for the Darmstadt State Theatre Ballet Ensemble, the Linz State Theatre Ballett Ensemble, for the Saarland State Theatre Ballet Ensemble, for Landerer & Companie, for the choreographers Mei Hong Lin, Stijn Celis, Massimo Gerardi, Maura Morales and for the Swiss harpsichordist Vital Frey. 
Since 2010 he has been composer and co-director of the contemporary dance company COOPERATIVA MAURA MORALES, which was in 2013 awarded the prestigious "Kurt Jooss-Prize" and 2014 with the Culture Prize of the City Dusseldorf.

Profilepfoto by Gorka Bravo


Pyschma (Excerpt)

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