Epoch Collapse

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Darius M. Roberte, Paris in 2013

Name	Darius Martin Roberte
Occupations	* Musician * composer * photographer * visual artist * writer
Years active	1976–present
Genres	* Dark Ambient * Ambient * Industrial * Electronic * Cinematic
Instrument(s)	* Keyboards * Synthesizer * Electronics * Computer * Percussion
Website	https://epochcollapse.com/
Discography	Epoch Collapse

Epoch Collapse

Darius Martin Roberte (AKA Darius M. Roberte, and Darius Roberte) is a musician, and composer of Dark Ambient, Industrial and experimental music. He is also a video and digital artist, photographer, and composer of cinematic music. He works under the project name, Epoch Collapse which is an experimental electronic and audiovisual/multimedia project formed in 2000. The name of the project refers to the collapse of the present epoch, and civilization as we know it. The project is mostly made up of music that is soundscape-oriented in nature. Darius M. Roberte's main musical influences and inspirations are: György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, Krzysztof Penderecki, Iannis Xenakis, Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Roland Kayn, Terry Riley, Steve Reich; also Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Eno, Lustmord, Nurse With Wound; the early years of The Berlin School; and more recently: Spectral Music (or Spectralism). A large majority of Epoch Collapse compositions are inspired by Surrealism, Dadaism, Cosmology, Philosophy, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Film Theory, and related visual media.

Biography

Darius M. Roberte - as well as being largely self-taught - underwent private tuition in piano, sight-reading and improvisational skills via jazz musician John Bostock. Around that time, in 1982, Darius M. Roberte studied jazz fundamentals at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and years later undertook postgraduate studies in musicianship, composition, music for multimedia and music technology.

Darius M. Roberte's earliest works were tape experiments made on a reel-to-reel dating back to when he was still in high school (all recordings are lost). The earliest surviving recording was made in 1976 which involved experimental piano sounds, along with wind instruments and found objects. This piece, originally titled Distortions was expanded into a drone/ambient work that eventually was used for a video Darius M. Roberte made in Paris whilst riding in the Eiffel Tower lift. This video (and music composition) was named Eiffel Into the Sky (a wordplay on "I Fell into the Sky") as the video was deliberately filmed upside down to give the impression to the viewer of falling away from the Earth.

The following year, 1977, while still a teenager, Darius M. Roberte experimented with installing various objects inside acoustic guitars. Some of these recordings were manipulated with a tape recorder, and the result was what the composer described as "fractionated guitar" - fractionated sounds were recorded using a tape manipulation method, which completely altered the attack, velocity, tone, resonance and duration of notes and sounds. Years later these recordings were processed electronically, and two compositions were the result of these sessions, Metempsychosis (subtitled, Fractionated Guitar) and Metamorphosis - which made use of unusual guitar tunings.

In 1980, Darius M. Roberte made his first recording of piano improvisations. The result was Orient Extensions aka Birchgrove Bombardments - the latter title being used for the 2017 remix. In 1984, another piano improvisation was used in a soundscape score for Thoughtforms (Figure 8 Production) at the 1984 Adelaide Fringe Festival; the score was broadcast on ABC-FM (now ABC Classic) and presented by Jaroslav Kovaricek on his programs, 'Musica Nova' and 'Dreamtime'. In the following years, many recordings were made that involved piano and electronic processing - one notable example is Mounting Rivers of Collision (1988), recorded and processed whilst visiting the electronic music studio at the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education (now part of Southern Cross University).

Darius M. Roberte at the piano. The Unprepared Piano series, 1991-1992.

The years 1991 through 1992, brought Unprepared Piano, a series of 10 piano improvisations. In total, it is over seven hours in duration. In subsequent years (2008-2019) these works were remixed with electronic processing and computer-generated sounds, to various degrees.

Throughout the 1990's, Darius M. Roberte concentrated mainly on synthesizer and computer-generated compositions, with several collaborations throughout the decade.

2000 was the year that Epoch Collapse was founded as a musician/composer and project. The aforementioned project came into being during the years up to the composer's postgraduate research work, some of which involved bioelectrics, and composition for film and media. In 2004 Epoch Collapse organised a screening of Yakov Protazanov's Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924), where Epoch Collapse performed live to the silent film using tape collages. The live mixing and remixing of sounds and samples were performed via an original graphic score. Later that year (credited as Dariusz Roberte), one of Epoch Collapse's works, Dark Ascension, was included on Jodi Rose's Singing Bridges CD "Vibrations: Variations". During the years 2008-2015 Epoch Collapse experimented with voice samples - electro-vocal (electro-vox) compositions. With these electro-vocal pieces, the voice of a reader is sonically manipulated and filtered through computer-generated algorithms, creating a soundscape where the words (if included) are combined as another layer. Also, throughout the years (mostly in 2013-2015), Darius M. Roberte made field recordings (and videos) in London, Paris, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Cairo, and throughout Sweden, Germany, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania, Turkey, India and other places - many of which have been used for music videos and as soundscapes within compositions.

Most recently, in 2023, Epoch Collapse performed live in Armidale, New England at the "Experimental Music Night" where he screened and performed original scores to Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou and a video, Mediaeval Experiments, 2nd Movement made from artwork by Jan Brueghel and Pieter Brueghel, and also Hieronymus Bosch.

Epoch Collapse's works - both music and multimedia - have been made available for listening/viewing (and in a few cases, purchasing and downloading) on WordPress, SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, Myspace (until some years ago), Blogspot, Mixcloud, personal blogs - among others.

List of compositions

Early works - 1976 to 1993

• Distortions (for piano strings, flutes, applied objects) (1976)
• Metempsychosis (Fractionated Guitar) (for guitar, applied objects and tape processing) (1977)
• Metamorphosis (for tuned-down guitar, applied objects and tape processing) (1977)
• The Shortwave Ramifications (for shortwave radio and tape processing) (1977)
• Orient Extensions (for piano) (1980) (edited/remixed with electronics in 1986; and 2021, as Mother Ship)
• Telemusik (Improvisation on J.S. Bach's 'Aria in D minor') (for piano and background noises) (1983) (edited/remixed with electronics 2009)
• Artefact Regained (for synthesizers, electric guitar and tape processing) (1982-86) (edited/remixed 2009)
• Thoughtforms (for piano). 1984 Adelaide Festival Production for the multi-media event, Thoughtforms.
• Exiles-Earth (for piano, voices, applied objects, guitar, window, extraneous sounds, tape processing) (1986-87). Made up of various parts, one of which features Klaus Kinski reciting poetry and other writings. Some sounds are derived from a collection of recordings [now lost], the titles being: Rhythm Vices, The Thing, Mother Ship, Son of Mother Ship, Mother Ship of Invention (1986-87)
• Mounting Rivers of Collision (for piano and electronics). Recorded at what was the Northern Rivers College of Advanced Education electronics studio (now a campus of Southern Cross University) (1988)
• Brocken Spectre (for piano) (2 parts) (1989)
• Unprepared Piano (for piano) (1991-1992) A series of piano improvisations later processed via electronics and computer-generated sound.

* Unprepared Piano 1: Views from Valhalla, for piano (1991)
* Unprepared Piano 2: Swamp Psychotronics, for piano (1991) 
* Unprepared Piano 3: Alarm Now and Then, for piano (1991)
* Unprepared Piano 4: Continental Drift, for piano (1991)
* Unprepared Piano 5: Mediaeval Experiments, for piano (1991)
* Unprepared Piano 6: Inversions and Symmetries, for piano (1991) 
* Unprepared Piano 7: The Turbulent Land of Hallucination, for piano (1991) 
* Unprepared Piano 8: Lunatic Horror Blues, for piano (1991)
* Unprepared Piano 9: Remnants and Abandoned Ruins, for piano (1992)
* Unprepared Piano 10: Black Vortex, for piano (1992)

• The Macabre Night (for computer-generated sounds) (volume, Early Computer) (1993)
• Daedalus (for computer-generated sounds) (volume, Early Computer) (1993)
• Consciousness Shift (for computer-generated sounds) (volume, Early Computer) (1993)
• Journey to the Spiral Galaxy (for computer-generated sounds) (volume, Early Computer) (1993)
• Journey to the Spiral Galaxy (Extended Version) (for computer-generated sounds) (volume, Early Computer) (1993)
• Untitled (for computer-generated sounds) (volume, Early Computer) (1993)

Middle Period works - 1994-1999

Photo of Darius M. Roberte taken in 1996 while performing in his band, Visions of the Bardo.

• Stormy Stories (A series of works for synthesizer, electronics and alto saxophone). Darius M. Roberte (Epoch Collapse) - keyboards and electronics; Robert N - alto saxophone. (All tracks edited/remixed by Epoch Collapse, including a field recording) (1994)

• Side Order of Air Hostess (Visitations) (2 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1994)
• Presence of Minds, Volume 1, (6 parts) (for vocal harmonics, voices, percussion, Tibetan bowls, found objects, and electronics) (1996)
• Presence of Minds, Volume 2, (6 parts) (for vocal harmonics, voices, percussion, Tibetan bowls, found objects, and electronics) (1996)
• Return of Ulysses to the Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel) (for vocal harmonics, voices, percussion, found objects, sound effects, electronics, and indecipherable readings from James Joyce's "Ulysses") (1996)
• Sketches of Rain (for synthesizer and electronics) (1996)
• Masters Brew (Mars) (for samples, compositional remixing and electronics) (1996)
• Fractured Mountainscapes (8 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Eye of the Nebula, Volume 1 (4 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Eye of the Nebula, Volume 2 (6 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Constellations (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Shadows of a Forgotten Kraken (10 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• The Resonant Bodies (for synthesizer, percussion and electronics) (Part 1 of On Solid Clouds) (1997)
• The Resonant Illusion (for synthesizer, percussion and electronics) (Part 2 of On Solid Clouds) (1997)
• A Cloud of Refracted Psychotropic Simulacra (for synthesizer, percussion and electronics) (Part 3 of On Solid Clouds) (1997)
• Life and Death, Volume 1 (5 parts) (for synthesizer, samples and electronics) (1997)
• Life and Death, Volume 2 (2 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Monochrome Debris, Volume 1 (6 parts) (for synthesizer, samples and electronics) (1997)
• Monochrome Debris, Volume 2 (3 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• The Stones of Venus (3 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Cartography of Dream (9 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Glimpses of Eternity (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• The Disaster Area, First Edition (6 parts) (for synthesizer, percussion, electric guitar and electronics) (1997)
• The Disaster Area, Second Edition (5 parts) (for synthesizer, percussion, electric guitar and electronics) (1997)
• The Morphing of the Night After (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Mistress of Air (Aerospace) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Ancient Shamans (5 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• The Nagual's Tale (for synthesizer and electronics) (1997)
• Transmigration (Bibliothèque I) (7 parts) (for electric piano, electric harpsichord and electronics) (1998)
• Internal Combustion Hallucination (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• Celestial Mechanics (Derelict Planets) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• OKH (8 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• Through A Portal Darkly (4 continuous parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• Trails of the Unexpected (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• Intangibles Incorporated (for synthesizer, percussion and electronics) (1998)
• Off-World Phalanx (for synthesizer, percussion and electronics) (1998)
• Invisible Cities (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• Invisible Cities (Special 2010 Edition) (for synthesizer and electronics) (1998)
• Towards an Abandoned Vortex (for synthesizer and electronics) (1999)
• A Clockwork Labyrinth (for synthesizer and electronics) (1999)
• A Clockwork Laboratory (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000)
• A Clockwork Laboratory (3rd Impression) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000-2022)
• Distant Doors, Different Perceptions (for synthesizer and electronics) (1999)
  

Darius M. Roberte with a 1970 Cadillac DeVille.

Late works - 2000 onward

• Fearless Creatures (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000)
• Fearless Creatures, Dead or Alive (Extended version of Fearless Creatures) (2000)
• Betrization - Return from the Stars (Radiophonics - Radio Drama based on Stanisław Lem's story) (2000)
• Meteor (Radiophonics - Radio Drama based on the John Wyndham short story) (2000)
• Knight in Time (for synthesizer, harpsichord, voice, effects, samples, and electronics) (2000)
• Knight Madness (for synthesizer, voice, sound effects, samples, and electronics) (Adapted from Knight in Time) (2000)
• Like Dragon Scales in the Night (A Knight in Time) (for synthesizer, harpsichord, voice, effects, samples, electronics) (2000-2023)
• Filmic Glances (piano improvisation) (2000)
• Filmic Sequences (piano improvisation with electronics) (2000)
• Droog Food (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000)
• Ritual (for sitar, percussion, voice drone, computer, and girl's live enactment) (2000)
• Hidden Passages (Version No.1) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000)
• Hidden Passages (Version No.2) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000)
• Hidden Passages (Alternate Mix) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2000-2023)
• Transmogrification (Bibliothèque II) (8 parts) (for electric piano, electric harpsichord and electronics) (2000)
• Orient Occident (for synthesizer and electronics) (2002)
• Throne of Blood (Edited and montaged footage from Akira Kurosawa's film - including music samples) (2000)
• Sierra Hypnotica - Deserts of Industry (for synthesizer, sound effects, samples, and electronics) (2001)
• Iron Stampede (for samples and electronics) (2001)
• Bach Tomorrow (for samples and electronics) (2001)
• Bach's Front Ear (Extended version of Bach Tomorrow) (2001)
• Improveyesoceans (for sitar, electronics, and computer - Max MSP) (with Olivia Pisani) (2002)
• Maestoso (for samples and electronics) (2002)
• Exo Maestoso (Extended version of Maestoso) (2002)
• Battles and Skirmishes (for samples and electronics) (2002)
• Birds and Monarchs (for samples and electronics) (2002)
• Voodoo Scythians (for samples and electronics) (2002)
• Espionage (for samples and electronics) (2002)
• Shipwrecks Passing in the Night (3 parts) (for synthesizer, sound effects, samples, and electronics) (2003)
• The Albemuth Satellites (2 volumes) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2003)
• Mysterious Barricades of the Haunted Gloom (for synthesizer and electronics) (2003)
• Ouroboros Distance (5 parts) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2003)
• Asteroid Belt Drive (for synthesizer and electronics) (2003)
• Dark Ascension (Erasmus) (for bridge recording samples and electronics) (2004) (Singing Bridges CD)
• Aqueduct (for bridge recording samples and electronics) (2004)
• Water Witches (for bridge recording samples and electronics) (2004)
• Aelita: Queen of Mars - Soundtrack for 1924 Sci-Fi film by Yakov Protazanov (for samples and electronics (2004)
• Autumn in New Quark (for synthesizer and electronics) (2005)
• Whiskey and Women (for synthesizer, sound effects, samples, and electronics) (2006)
• Multiple Cities (Sound Collage of original works, field recordings) (2006)
• The Hangar Project (Einstürzenden Neuen Hangars) (2 volumes, 7 parts each) (A series of works for synthesizers, sitar, accordion, electric guitars, percussion, live electronic processing, voices) (Epoch Collapse and members of United States of Consciousness); Darius M. Roberte (Epoch Collapse) - keyboards, guitar, sitar, accordion; final editing/remixing, and composing of final works) (2007)
• Ghosts Out of Machines (for synthesizer and electronics) (2008)
• The Fortifications of Morpheus (for synthesizer and electronics) (2008)
• Wie oft stellst du dir die Frage über deinen Geisteszustand (for computer-generated sounds and voice sample) Epoch Collapse - computer-generated sounds, electronics, voice; Non-Vox Version, (2009); Robert Lort - voice, poem (2009)
• The Non-Cochlear (for voice sample, field recordings, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2010)
• Mountain Climbs, for Sitar, Electronics (includes computer-generated sounds) (2010)
• Trains of Thought (for samples and computer-generated sounds) (Samples of Steve Reich's 2 x 5). (2010)
• Dawn (2 parts) (for woman's voice, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2011)
• The Forest, (Non-vox version of Dawn) (for woman's voice recitation, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2011)
• The Dead of Winter (for woman's voice, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2013)
• The Dead of Winter (2nd Version) (for woman's voice, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2013)
• Astronomy Turbine (for piano resonance, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2013)
• Building Peaks (for synthesizer and electronics) (Based on sounds from Whiskey and Women) (2006)
• Piano Industry (for piano, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2015)
• In the Wild Hills West of Arkham - after H.P. Lovecraft (for synthesizer and electronics) (2015)
• Urban Geometry Explosions (for woman's voice, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2015)
• Urban Geometry Explosions (2nd Version) (for woman's voice, computer-generated sounds and electronics) (2015)
• Necronomicon (10 parts) (for synthesizer, electronics, feedback loops, and filters) (2015)
• Birchgrove Bombardments (for synthesizer and electronics) (A reworking of Orient Extensions) (1986-2017)
• Horsehead Nebula - Wandering Outside Time (for synthesizer and electronics) (2018)
• Time Enough At Last (for synthesizer and electronics) (2018)
• The Last Breath of the Ancient Krells (Sound Collage of original works) (for synthesizer and electronics) (2018)
• Cubisms (for sitar, found objects and electronics) (2019)
• Cubisms in Flight (for sitar, found objects and electronics) (2019)
• Virtual ANS Structures (for computer; applications; electronics, tape processing) (2019)
• A Saucerful of Sequences (for computer; electronics, tape processing; collaborative applications) (2019)
• A Thousand Shades Howling at Callisto (for synthesizer, electronics, sound samples) (2019)
• The Shadows of Ganymede (for synthesizer, electronics, sound samples) (2019)
• The Girl with the Flaxen Hair and the UFO People (Collaborative online project/radio broadcast: 'Final Gleaning') (2021)
• Nächtliche Cyborgs im Regen (for synthesizer, sitar, guitars, effects, electronics, tape processing, samples) (2022)
• Kosmos Zeit (for synthesizer, guitars, drums, effects, electronics, tape processing) (2022)
• Kosmos Zeit (Special Edition) (for synthesizer, guitars, drums, effects, electronics, tape processing) (2022)
• Schwarze Eisstürme (for synthesizer and electronics) (2022)
• Schrottplatz im Weltall (5 parts) (for synthesizer, effects, samples, and electronics) (2023)
• Her Geometries (for synthesizer and electronics) (2023)
• Un Chien Andalou - Soundtrack for 1929 Surrealist film by Luis Buñuel (for synthesizer, sound effects, and electronics) (2023)
• At Land - Soundtrack for 1944 Surrealist film by Maya Deren (for synthesizer, sound effects, and electronics) (2023)
• Meshes of the Afternoon - Soundtrack for 1943 Surrealist film by Maya Deren (for synthesizer, sound effects, and electronics) (2023)
• Nosferatu - Soundtrack for 1922 silent horror film by F.W. Murnaus (for synthesizer, sound effects, and electronics) (2024)
• Sirius A (Steinberg Nuendo Sound Lab, electronics, sound processing) (2024)
• Sirius B (Steinberg Nuendo Sound Lab, synth, electronics, sound processing) (2024)
• Sirius C (Steinberg Nuendo Sound Lab, synth, voice electronics, sound processing) (2024)
• Sirius Clusters (Steinberg Nuendo Sound Lab, synth, electronics, sound processing) (2024)

Albums

Year of Recording	Title & Album Details	Format
1976-1977	Metempsychosis
1977-1980	The Shortwave Ramifications
1982	Telemusik
1986	Exiles - Earth I (Mother Ship)
1986	Exiles - Earth II (Son of Mother Ship)
1986-1987	Exiles - Earth III (Mother Ship of Invention)	[triple album]
1988	Mounting Rivers of Collision
1989	Mountain Visions - Brocken Spectres	[double album]
1991	Views from Valhalla / Swamp Psychotronics (Unprepared Piano 1 / 2)
1991	Alarm Now & Then (Unprepared Piano 3)
1991	Continental Drift (Unprepared Piano 4)
1991	Mediaeval Experiments (Unprepared Piano 5)
1991-1992	Symmetries and Cemeteries (Unprepared Piano 6 / 9)
1991	The Turbulent Land of Hallucination (Unprepared Piano 7)
1991-1992	Lunatic Horror Blues / Black Vortex (Unprepared Piano 8 / 10)
1993	Early Computer
1994	Stormy Stories
1994-1997	Mistress of Air
1996	Presence of Minds I
1996	Presence of Minds II
1996	Die Toteninsel
1996	Mars Propulsion and Wanderlust
1997	Fractured Mountainscapes
1997	Eye of the Nebula, Volume 1	[double album]
1997	Eye of the Nebula, Volume 2
1997	Eye of the Nebula, Volume 3
1997	Constellations
1997	Shadows of a Forgotten Kraken
1997	On Solid Clouds	[double album]
1997	Life and Death
1997	Monochrome Debris, Volume 1
1997	Monochrome Debris, Volume 2
1997	The Stones of Venus	[double album]
1997	Cartography of Dream
1997	Glimpses of Eternity
1997	The Disaster Area
1997	The Morphing of the Night After
1997	The Morphing of the Night After [Alternate Version]
1997-1998	Ancient Shamans
1998	Transmigration (Bibliothѐque I)
1998	Internal Combustion Hallucination
1998	OKH
1998	Through A Portal Darkly
1998	Trails of the Unexpected
1998	Intangibles Incorporated
1999	Towards an Abandoned Vortex
1999	A Clockwork Labyrinth
1999	Distant Doors, Different Perceptions
2000-2002	Universe I	[double album]
2000-2002	Universe II
2000-2002	Universe III: Meteor [Multimedia and Music]
2000	Castles of Eternal Returns	[double album]
2000	Transmogrification (Bibliothѐque II)
2001	Bach's Front Ear
2000-2002	Exo Maestoso
2002	Electronic and Electro-Acoustic Music [Limited Edition CD release]
2003	Shipwrecks Passing in the Night
2003	Shipwrecks Passing in the Night Again
2003	The Albemuth Satellites [Emergence]
2003	The Albemuth Satellites [Return]
2003	Mysterious Barricades of the Haunted Gloom
2003	Ouroboros Distance
2003	Asteroid Belt Drive
2004-2006-2010	Bridges / Trains / Cities
2004	Aelita, Queen of Mars [Sountrack]	[double album]
2006	Building Peaks / Whiskey and Women
2007	Einstürzenden Neuen Hangars (The Hangar Project, Volume 1) [Dedicated to György Ligeti]
2007	Like Dust in Solar Winds (The Hangar Project, Volume 2) [Dedicated to György Ligeti]
2008	Apparition Transmission
2010	Konârak
2011-2013-2015	The Forest
2012-2023	After THX 1138 [Recitations / Soundscapes]
2013-2015	Astronomy Turbine	[double album]
2015	Necronomicon I: Into the Void
2015	Necronomicon II: The Nameless City
2015	Necronomicon III: At the Mountains of Madness
2015	Necronomicon IV: The Whistling Wind
2015-2016-2019-2021	Heckington and Elsewhere (The Further Fields) (Remixes and Field Recordings)
2015-2018-2021-2022	A Saucerful of Sequences / Mid-Voyage
2018	Time Enough At Last [Dedicated to theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking]
2019	Cubisms
2019	The Shades of Ganymede Colony 3
2022	Kosmos Zeit
2022-2023	Träume von Cyborgs	[double album]
2023	Surrealism - Frame by Frame [Film Scores]
2024	Nosferatu [Film Score]	[double album]
2024	The Sirius Project

Albums - Collections

Self-Released Compilations or Collections

Year of release	Title & Album Details	Format
2021	MMXXI: A Space Odyssey (Collection of Previously Released Works)	[triple album]
2023	Autumn in New Quark (A Collection of Works)	[double album]
2024 (TBA)	I Was a Teenage Single Malt Shop (Collection of Early and Mid-Period Works)

Compilation Albums (Various)

Year of release	Title & Album Details	Works by Epoch Collapse
2004	Singing Bridges - Vibrations: Variations (Prod. by Jodi Rose/Sonic ArtStar) (Compiled by Jodi Rose)	Track 5: Dark Ascension
2018	Krell Music (Inspired by the 1956 SF film classic, 'Forbidden Planet') (Compiled by Aural Films)	Track 10: The Last Breath of the Ancient Krells
2018	Chorith's Pleasures (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Tracks 1 & 2: Side Order of Air Hostess (Visitations I); Side Order of Air Hostess (Visitations II)
2019	Encrypted Prophecies (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Tracks 1 & 9: Intangibles Incorporated; Einstürzenden Neuen Hangars III
2020	Dark Fictions (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Track 3: A Thousand Shades Howling at Callisto [extract]
2020	Horror Films 2020 (Compiled by Aural Films)	Track 13: Fractured Mountainscapes: The Haunted Hills
2021	Substak | Mark Blood 2021-05-11 (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Track 7: Prelude to The Morphing of the Night After
2021	Mars Perseverance (Commemorating the Mars Perseverance Rover landing on Feb 18th 2021)(Compiled by Aural Films)	Track 9: Mars, the Bringer of Perseverance
2021	Fourth World Is – Jon Hassell Tribute (Tribute to Jon Hassell who passed on June 26th, 2021) (Compiled by Aural Films)	Track 8: Birchgrove Bombardments
2021	Horror Films 2021 (Compiled by Aural Films)	Track 14: The Mists Beyond the Wall of Sleep
2021	EnTrance: The Whirling Way of Dervish (Compiled by Aural Films)	Track 11: Presence of Minds – The Return
2022	Decoupling Neutrinos (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Track 1: Shadows of a Forgotten Kraken VI
2022	Glass Butterscotch Flavour (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Track 4: Mars, the Bringer of Perseverance
2022	Requiem: Klaus Schulze Tribute (Tribute to Klaus Schulze: 4 August 1947 – 26 April 2022) (Aural Films)	Track 22: Nächtliche Cyborgs im Regen
2023	Tears in Rain: Vangelis Tribute (Tribute to Vangelis: 29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022) (Aural Films)	Track 11: Nächtliche Cyborgs im Regen
2023	Termination (Compilation album of Dark Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Track 3: Metempsychosis
2023	Liquified Afterglows(Compilation album of Ambient Music by Mark Blood)	Track 4: The Morphing of the Night After
2023	The Inverted City (Compiled by Argali Records) (7th Quarterly Experimental Music/Noise Compilation)	Track 31: The Fortifications of Morpheus
2023	Horror Films 2023 (Compiled by Aural Films)	Track: The Whistling Wind

Early Online Compilation Albums (selections)

• SMOOTH SPACE (2009) Compilation sound art project. Produced by Vague Terrain/Microsound.
  Includes a work by Darius Roberte (Epoch Collapse) Return of Ulysses to the Fog of Death Island, Part 1

• STRIATED SPACE (2009) Compilation sound art project. Produced by Vague Terrain/Microsound.
  Includes a work by Darius Roberte (Epoch Collapse). Water Witches

• EGB/DRONING EARTH VOL.38 (2010) Compilation online album of Ambient, Folk, Experimental Music.
  Includes a work by Epoch Collapse.

Videography and Soundtracks

Music Videos - Tracks (publication/release dates): -

• Minus Minus (2013-14) (Collaborative video. Epoch Collapse: Music, Production, Direction, Camerawork)
• Eiffel Into the Sky (Paris, France, 2013)
• Eiffel Into the Sky II (Paris, France, 2013)
• In the Footsteps of Blowup (Maryon Park, London, UK, 2013)
• The Gaudí Variations (Barcelona, Spain, 2013)
• The Turbulent Land of Hallucination (2015)
• The Turbulent Land of Hallucination Revisited (2015)
• Mistress of Air (Aerospace) (2019)
• Driving Into the End of Night (2019)
• The Forest (2019)
• The Forest (Alternate video) (2019)
• Black Vortex, 2nd Movement (2020)
• OKH, The Kingdom of OKH (2020)
• OKH, The Kingdom of OKH (Alternate video) (2020)
• Eye of the Nebula V: Night of the Sprawling Death (2020)
• Einstürzenden Neuen Hangars III (Special Edition) (2020)
• Building Peaks (2020)
• Shadows of a Forgotten Kraken IV (2020)
• Shadows of a Forgotten Kraken VI (2020)
• Fractured Mountainscapes: The Haunted Hills (2020)
• The Last Breath of the Ancient Krells (2020)
• Castles of Eternal Returns (2020)
• Mediaeval Experiments (First and Second Movements) (2020)
• Ancient Shamans - Fourth Evocation (2020)
• Mountain Climbs, For Sitar and Electronics (2020)
• Ouroboros Distance I (2020)
• Fractured Mountainscapes: The Lost Road (2020)
• Eye of the Nebula V: Night of the Sprawling Death (2020)
• The Resonant Bodies (2021)
• Prelude to The Morphing of the Night After (2021)
• Mars, the Bringer of Perseverance (2021)
• Stormy Stories, Improvisation I (2021)
• Astronomy Turbine I (2021)
• Volcanalia II (2021)
• Cartography of Dream VII (2021)
• Glimpses of Eternity (Special Edition) (2021)
• Cubisms in Flight (2021)
• Industry and String Theory (2021)
• Ancient Shamans - First Evocation (2021)
• Transmogrification I and II (2022)
• Into the Void that Time Forgot (2022)
• Through a Portal Darkly (2022)
• Filmic Glances (2023)
• Nächtliche Cyborgs Im Regen (2023)

Music Videos - Full Albums (publication/release dates): -

• Asteroid Belt Drive (2022)
• Metempsychosis (2022)
• The Shortwave Ramifications (2022)
• Mounting Rivers of Collision (2022)
• Mediaeval Experiments (2022)
• The Turbulent Land of Hallucination (2022)
• Die Toteninsel [Full album] (2022)
• Eye of the Nebula, Volume 2 (2022)
• Constellations (2022)
• Ancient Shamans (2022)
• Trails of the Unexpected (2022)
• Intangibles Incorporated (2022)
• Life and Death (2022)
• The Stones of Venus (2022)
• Bach's Front Ear (2022)
• Exo Maestoso (2022)
• Shipwrecks Passing in the Night Again (2022)
• Ouroboros Distance (2022)
  

Soundtracks (publication/release dates): -

• Un Chien Andalou - Soundtrack for 1929 Surrealist film by Luis Buñuel (for synthesizer, sound effects and electronics) (2023)
• At Land - Soundtrack for 1944 Surrealist film by Maya Deren (for synthesizer, sound effects and electronics) (2023)
• Meshes of the Afternoon - Soundtrack for 1943 Surrealist film by Maya Deren (for synthesizer, sound effects and electronics) (2023)

• Nosferatu - Soundtrack for 1922 Silent Horror film by F. W. Murnau (for synthesizer, sound effects and electronics) (TBA - 2024)

Visual Art and Photography

CERTIFICATE OF ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT (Luxembourg Art Prize 2018) The Pinacotheque, a private museum in Luxembourg • Luxembourg Art Prize

• ART/MEDIA – Epoch Collapse (WordPress) ART/MEDIA – Epoch Collapse
• EPOCH COLLAPSE - PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK EPOCH COLLAPSE - PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK (epoch-collapse.blogspot.com)
• PHOTOGRAPHY/MEDIA – Epoch Collapse (WordPress) PHOTOGRAPHY/MEDIA – Epoch Collapse

Writings, articles, essays

• 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY - A critical analysis of the film score. An article by Darius M. Roberte focusing on the use of music in Stanley Kubrick's film - giving detailed analysis of music cues, the effects of music and silence, and the significance of the use of sound and music with narrative structure, and how music impacts on film in general; published on The Kubrick Site - Revised version of the above essay/article - EPOCH COLLAPSE (epoch-collapse.blogspot.com)

• Darius Roberte and Rachel Cobcroft, 2005: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty: On Trial, on Tour with Diamanda Galás. A review on the Diamanda Galás concert held at QPAC. Written for M/C Reviews. Post: Edit (blogger.com)

• Darius Roberte and Rachel Cobcroft, 2005: Love and Anarchy, The Cinema of Seduction: Lina Wertmüller in Retrospective. A review on the films of Lina Wertmüller held at the Centro Cinema as part of the Italian Film Festival 2005. Written for M/C Reviews.

• Darius Roberte, 2005: Zen & the Art of Newspaper Laceration: Akio Suzuki. A review on sound art performances and events held at Brisbane Powerhouse. Written for M/C Reviews.

• Darius Roberte, 2006 (input from Cobcroft): Wide Open Frame. A review on sound art performances and events held at Brisbane Powerhouse. Written for M/C Reviews.

• Darius Roberte, 2006: Open Frame Film: Noh Cinema. A review on film screenings and events held at Brisbane Powerhouse. Written for M/C Reviews.

References

1. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Singing-Bridges-Vibrations-Variations/release/507560
2. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Singing-Bridges-Vibrations-Variations/release/507560 Vibrations: Variations
3. http://www.discogs.com/artist/352555-Darius-Roberte Dark Ascension
4. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Smooth-Space/release/2022924
5. http://www.discogs.com/artist/2568214-Epoch_Collapse
6. http://marcodonnarumma.com/compilations/vague-terrain-microsound/
7. https://archive.org/details/DroningEarthVol38
8. https://droningearth.wordpress.com/2010/11/
9. EPOCH COLLAPSE (epoch-collapse.blogspot.com)

External links

• Epoch Collapse – Music and Media of Epoch Collapse
• Epoch Collapse on Bandcamp
• EPOCH COLLAPSE: EPOCH COLLAPSE MUSIC (epoch-collapse.blogspot.com)
• Epoch Collapse | Mixcloud
• Epoch Collapse Channel on YouTube
• Stream Epoch Collapse music on Soundcloud
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Critical Analysis of the Film Score
• ART/MEDIA – Epoch Collapse
• EPOCH COLLAPSE: EPOCH COLLAPSE - PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK (epoch-collapse.blogspot.com)
• PHOTOGRAPHY/MEDIA – Epoch Collapse

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