Booking Info

Territory: Europe
Agent: Mark
Links: official site / The Leaf Label

Biography

Brooding electronics and classical sound sources combine in the integrated sound world of Murcof. He is a very modern composer, who utilizes technology to make epic, moving suites of music with a spiritual undertow. He draws on minimalism, post modernism and baroque music to create music that moves the mind and heart. His ear for detail and undulating tempos as well as his sense of space are heightened by the themes of life, death and eternity that his work touches on. Composers such as Arvo Pärt, Henryk Górecki and Giya Kancheli are all suitable comparisons.

His work draws on his childhood exposure to pre-20th century classical music and his passion for electronic pioneers like Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream as a teenager, as well as his experiments in noise with his pre-Murcof doom/avant garde outfit, Elohim. He has released 3 critically acclaimed albums and an EP on The Leaf Label. The groundbreaking album Martes album (2002) is an established classic of minimal electronic composition. All these elements swarm together in his current phase of monumental sound construction which integrates acoustic, analogue and digital elements seamlessly.

Live performances over the years have included a site specific performance at Greenwich Planetarium (in collaboration with the Royal Astronomer), Montreaux Jazz Festival (collaboration with Talvin Singh & Erik Truffaz) and L’Auditori at Sonar Festival in Barcelona (with the pianist Francesco Tristano). In 2008 Murcof toured a new work called Oceano in collaboration with classical musicians BCN216 and light sculptor Flicker.

Murcof + Simon Geilfus (AntiVJ)

Murcof’s international reputation as a staggering live presence has been enhanced in recent years through his collaboration with French audio-visual collective AntiVJ. In this project real-time panoramic projections are mapped in wondrous 3D perspective on vast semi-transparent screens, creating a fully immersive environment of microscopic particles, geometric grids and organic elements. The collaboration was first developed at Bristol’s Venn Festival in 2007 and has gone on to exhibit at Mutek (Montreal), Ravenna Festival and Futuresonic (Manchester).

Press Quotes

“Mindblowing, like Sunn 0))) playing Ligeti in a galaxy far, far away. SUBLIME” – Uncut

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