Composing Transmedia and Modes-of-Encounter: Navigating Vertical and Horizontal Attention

Transmedia composition unfolds across multiple interconnected works using different media-constellations. This essay explores how the relationships between the works generate meaning, and how different modes-of-encounter invite various forms of perception and interpretive possibilities.

Marko Ciciliani

PublishedJune 12, 2025

Composing Transmedia and Modes-of-Encounter: Navigating Vertical and Horizontal Attention

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Literature:

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Ablinger, Peter. Weiss/Weisslich (1980-2023), https://ablinger.mur.at/werke.html#a1, accessed on April 18, 2025
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Marko Ciciliani

Marko Ciciliani is a composer, intermedia artist, performer and artistic researcher, as well as Professor for Computer Music Composition at the Kunstuni Graz. The focus of his work lies in the composition of performative electronic sound works, mostly in audiovisual contexts. Interactive video, light design and laser graphics often play an integral part in his works, just as well as elements of ergodic or transmedia storytelling, or speculative fabulation. His music has been performed in more than forty-five countries across Eurasia, Oceania and the Americas. His work has been released on five full-length CDs and four multimedia books featuring inter- and transdisciplinary works.

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Media ArtCompositionElectronic Music

Original language: english

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