As a solo artist, Demarco performs under the name Cthulha. This project comes in many different forms including solo experimental musical performance with vocal, piano, cello, and electronics, sometimes featuring an aerial or physical component. Cthulha’s most current album Always Who You Were was released in 2019 in collaboration with Matron Records. The album features many incredible guest artists from New Mexico. The album release featured a ten course meal with a pairing for each song, a choir and aerial performance. Footage from the event is available here. The video released with the album featured a trapeze piece with an acoustic bass as a duet partner.
As a collaborator, Demarco enjoys playing bass for the band Chicharra, a collage of heavy experimental rock and dreamy vocals. The band released it’s first album in 2016 and released a second album with Matron Records in the fall of 2017. Monica also enjoys conceptualizing and directing music video’s for the band. More of her music videos can be found on the Matron Records youtube channel under Chicharra.
Demarco has been the musical director for AirDance New Mexico, a nonprofit organization devoted to the aerial arts in Albuquerque, N.M. The company did two full-scale productions a year, and Demarco contributed as both an aerial artist and musician. For each production, she coordinated a new ensemble of local musicians to collaboratively compose new original music for the show. Often the collaborations are so successful they form new projects or inspire new albums. The ensembles have included everything from bands of many musical styles, choirs, string quartets and percussion groups. Every show is unique and requires innovative new music.
Cthulha was the featured cellist and composer for Nemcatacoa Teatro, a Columbian theatre company performing Asymmetrical Bodies as part of Tricklock‘s International Revolutions Theatre Festival 2017. Other projects include her work with Milch de la Máquina, an ABQ founded women’s performance art troupe, and Death Convention Singers, a massive collective of Albuquerque’s most innovative musicians. Over the last decade, Demarco could also be found playing bass for Ya Ya Boom, a pop-rock project with four produced albums, and on tour with The Red Elvises in 2011.
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