Max Marcoll - Composer talk

In his presentation, Max Marcoll will discuss the context in which the Amproprification series was created, offering insight into its conceptual foundation, technical aspects, and the specifics of the individual movements in Amproprification VI.

This workshop is suitable for musicians, composers and concert-goers, or anyone with an interest in electronic music and how it is composed, or how technology can be integrated into composition and performance.

“In his Amproprifications, Marcoll invented a very specific way of making previous pieces into his material, a method that paradoxically leaves them completely intact and radically changes them at the same time” (Christian Grüny)

Maximilian Marcoll studied percussion, instrumental and electronic composition in Lübeck and Essen, Germany. His work centres on media-reflective aspects of music, as well as the social and political potential of music and sound.

His most recent works include pieces of the series ‘NUT | LAC’, which deal with the paradox of the simultaneity of interruption and flow in the form of slowly progressing pulse shifts; the series the ‘Ampropfications’ series, in which he superimposes layers of amplification on works by other composers; a series of monodic electronic canons and “Control Issues”, a series of works for control devices with motorised faders.

Since 2021, he has been teaching as Professor of Electroacoustic Composition and Sound Art at the the University of Music and the Bauhaus University Weimar. He lives in Weimar and Berlin. http://www.marcoll.de

Tickets include refreshments. More info about access to the CMC Library can be found here.