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Ray Buttigieg (pronounced /beauti-gig/, with hard
"g" as in "go")
was born in the Gozo, the second largest island of
the Maltese Islands on May 1, 1955. He attended
Qala primary school, then the Lyceum in Victoria,
Gozo. He then moved to the United States where he
continued his studies in New York where he settled
for good. At the age of twenty he had already
several poems published in anthologies in London
and New York City.

==History==


===Writing===

Best known for Pastorale (1978), Poeticus I & II
(1986) and (1992), and  the very first book he
ever wrote in his late teens Wizard's Spider
Mystic Glider (1989) which are written in a
classical style; he received criticism when he
later introduced a more modern style in his
experiments and improvisational poetry. In the
last few years he returned to his earlier style in
works like The Wisdom of Stones (2002), Remnants
from the Book of Time (2002), and The Procession
(1999). Although for the last 25 years Buttigieg
has been writing only in English language|English
and very little in his native Maltese
language|Maltese, his subject matter still
includes a great deal of influence from his native
Malta.

===Music===

Ray Buttigieg since the age of ten became
extremely interested in music
when he started to sing Latin hymns on the gallery
of the grand pipe organ at St Joseph's church. He
was also attracted to pieces of metal of various
sizes , weights and alloys as well as short wave
radios where he thought the combination of these
found instruments are uniqely musical that could
be used as effects. He later learned the guitar
and started to write songs for his first Rock and
Roll|Rock improvisational band.

===With Cykx===

Buttigieg started his professional musical career
in New York and Philadelphia where he fronted a
six piece glam/rock band Cykx
where his catchy tunes mixed with his lyrical
poetry produced two top ten pop hits in the
mid-seventies. At the same time synthesizers and
computers and several electronic music experiments
on tape were becoming more interesting to Ray
Buttigieg than bandmates who could never agree on
anything. Soon the band was defunct and a new
project band started Ray Buttigieg/Cykx and (Cykx
the computer) replacing the members of the band.
The pop music|pop or rock and roll|rock
compositions now became explorations and
experiments in sound. Compucircuit 0.008 m/s
(1981), Mechanism of Thought (1984) were both very
ground breaking album.

===Solo Work===

Buttigieg embarked on a solo career ever since he
set eyes on his first keyboards, a Mellotron. He
was involved in multiple projects at the same time
while being involved in solo major works and other
series concepts like Earth noise and Sound Science
Series in the 70's and The Symphonic Poems, Music
for  and Diary of an Earthling series in the 80's.
Film and Video work were also becoming a very
interesting avenue to combine visuals, poetry and
as the music soundtrack that would define the
visuals all done under the same roof. He continued
his career by producing some influental and lush
albums like Sound of Transformation - Symphonic
Poem No.1 (1982) , Quantum Mechanics (1985), Music
for Movies (1986), Codes (1987) and Musical
Instincts of Nature.

==Producing records and collaborating==

Since the very beginning of his career in the
mid-70's, Buttigieg has been sought after for
creative guidance, collaborating, producing and as
the idea man. His string of credits include In
Rebellion, Process and After Thought in the 80's,
and in the 90's co-wrote songs and produced bands
like Novi Mystici, Prosper Falls, Selfish like
Magnets and Noise Button. In the last few years of
the new millennium Buttigieg has written songs for
other artists in the genres of popular music/pop
song, Gothic rock|gothic format and has gone
aggressively into everything electronic whether it
is electronica, ambient, new age or electronic
producing and collaborating with bands like FTSG,
Dyr3, System 6, Desire becomes Being and Circa
2000 AD.

==Discography==

===Studio Albums===

*(1982) Sound of Transformation – Symphonic
Poem No.1
*(1982) Muvumenti Globali
*(1982) The Essential Transition – Symphonic
Poem No.2
*(1983) Etere (Ether)
*(1984) Architecture, Agriculture & Astronomy     
           
*(1984) Nearing the Millennium – Symphonic
Poem No.3
*(1985) Quantum Mechanics
*(1985) Music for Computers
*(1986) Music for Movies
*(1986) Music for Videos
*(1987) Codes (Diary of an Earthling
*(1987) Perpetual Energies
*(1987) Sequence – Symphonic Poem No.4
*(1988) Messages
*(1989) Spirit of the Soul – Symphonic Poem
No.5
*(1989) Etenoha (Mother Earth) Earthnoise No.1
*(1990) In Dream Passages
*(1991) Almost Pure Vision – Symphonic Poem
No.6 
*(1992) Elements  
*(1993) Musical Instincts of Nature
*(1993) Deus Meus, What are they doing? –
Symphonic Poem No.7 
*(1995) Ir-Rahal (The Village) Earthnoise No.2
*(1995) Procyon aCMi – Symphonic Poem No.8
*(1996) Methuselah Chamber
*(1998) Spheric                             
*(1999) Roswell 1947, Alien Debris –
Symphonic Poem No.9

===Collection Albums===

*(1988) Excerpts & Movements 1978–1988
Selected Works Vol.1
*(1990) Musics  III Sound Science Series
*(1991) Time Temples
*(1998) Themes & Suites 1988–1998 Selected
Works Vol.2
*(2000) Ars Electronica
*(2000) Memory Bouquet Complete Collection One
*(2001) Opera'tion Trilogy
*(2003) Magical Worlds
*(2005) Mysteries of Life

===Collaboration Albums===

*(1981) Compucircuit 0.008 m/s – (with Ray
Buttigieg/Cykx)  
*(1984) Mechanism of Thought – (with Ray
Buttigieg/Cykx)  
*(1988) Symbols – (with In Rebellion)
*(1988) Origins – (with In Rebellion)
*(1989) Numbers – (with In Rebellion)
*(1989) Rituals – (with In Rebellion)
*(1995) Apocryphon – (with Novi Mystici)
*(2003) From the Secret Garden – (with FTSG)
*(2004) The Melancholy of Mozart – (with
Noise Button)

===Compilations Albums===

*(2002) Gossamer & Lace
*(2003) Prophesied by Clouds

===Soundtrack Albums===

*(1981) Signals 
*(1985) Down on Earth
*(1985) Moving Images
*(2005) Electropolis

==Bibliography==

===Poetry in English===

* Pastorale (1978)
* Windrhythm (1983)
* Apocraphasis (1984)
* Poeticus I (1986)
* Wizard's Spider Mystic Glider (1989)
* Stellae Incognita (1990)
* Poeticus II (1992)
* A Cage full of Words (1994)
* Songs of the Earth (1997)
* Objects & Orbitals (1999)
* The Procession and Other Works (1999)
* Remnants fron the Book of Time (2000)
* The Wisdom of Stones and Other Selected Poems
(2002)
* Calypso & Odysseus and Other Songs of the Sea
(2003)

===Poetry in Maltese===

* Rubáiyát is-Cykx (1979)
* Pellegrinaġġ tas-Santwarju tal-Qalb (1979)

===Symphonic Poems===

* Sound of Transformation – Symphonic Poem
No.1 (1982)
* The Essential Transition – Symphonic Poem
No.2 (1982)
* Nearing the Millennium – Symphonic Poem
No.3 (1984)
* Sequence – Symphonic Poem No.4 (1987)
* Spirit of the Soul – Symphonic Poem No.5
(1989)
* Almost Pure Vision – Symphonic Poem No.6
(1991)
* Deus Meus, What are they doing? –
Symphonic Poem No.7 (1993)
* Procyon aCMi – Symphonic Poem No.8 (1995)
* Roswell 1947, Alien Debris – Symphonic
Poem No.9 (1999)

==External Links==

* http://www.raybuttigieg.com/ Ray Buttigieg.com -
The Official Ray Buttigieg Website
*
http://www.cykxincorp.com/Cykxincorp%20File/index2
.html/ Cykxbooks -Links, Books, Poetry 
* http://www.standingstoneltd.com/ Standing Stone
Recording Company - Record Label/Lyricum
* http://www.cykxincorp.com/ Cykxincorp.com -
Comprehensive Discography, Bibliography, Biography
Site




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