Damian Marhulets || Composer, Media Artist, Sound Fetishist || www.displaced-meanings.com

Damian Marhulets was born in Minsk in 1980. His musical education has been developing throughout playing oboe and piano towards composition and electroacoustic music, that he studied in Hanover and Cologne. Damian Marhulets is a founder and participant of many musical projects, such as dak~ [dak.tilde] live electronic trio and -+-** [without additives no stars big band], spanning contemporary classical music to live-electronic improvisation, glamourous noise and perverse pøp. His major interest lies in anti-logocentric territories of sound and anarchitecture of music data.

// Selected Performances:

Among others, Damian Marhulets performed at such festivals, as the „Music21“ contemporary music Festival (Lychow, Germany), „Re:New“ digital art Festival (Copehagen), „Ex.Tempore“ free-improvisation music festival (Hanover, Germany), PlayWithFire Video Art Festival (NY), Beethovenfest (Bonn, Germany), #AST – Art, Science, Technology Festival (Grenoble, France) and others. His works were presented at such places as the Sprengel Museum and Kestnergesellschaft Gallery Hanover, RobertDrees Gallery, ArtCenterBerlin and Kunstsaele Gallery Berlin, Philharmonic Hall Essen (Germany), Monkey Town (NY), Diapason Gallery (NY), ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany), DAVID vzw Gallery (Ghent) and STEIM (Amsterdam).

He also performed at the Music Triennale Cologne 2010 and at the „New Talents“ Art Biennale (Cologne). Damian Marhulets' works has been broadcasted by NDR Hanover, WDR and Germany Radio. His music is released by the Auster Records, Munich, Germany

// Artistic Residencies:

• ZKM – Center for Art and Media Karlsuhe (Germany)• ACROE – Association for the Creation and Research on Expression Tools, Grenoble (France)• IONIAN University, Corfu (Greece)• STEIM - tStudio for Electro-Instrumental Music, Amsterdam