Neil Luck: Adopt a Composer

Commissioned by:

BT Melodians Steel Orchestra

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www.neilluck.com/about/about.html

Neil Luck is a composer based in London. His compositional practice focuses on various approaches to non-standard notations, in particular those which implicate either the composer’s own body/movement in construction, or directly engage with the physiology of performance techniques themselves. He studied composition at the University of Surrey, and at the Royal College of Music.

He has also been active in performing his own work, and the work of others around the UK, Europe and Japan, as well as on BBC radio 3 as part of the Cut and Splice festival. He is the founder of ARCO – an experimental string ensemble, and is a co-founder of Squib-box; an artist led cooperative dedicated to the production, recording and dissemination of contemporary avant-garde music.

Neil’s work as a curator has seen led to two major exhibitions in 2008 and 2009 in collaboration with Sam Belinfante; Notations 2008 and The Voice and Nothing More . He has also produced a variety of concerts, happenings and events both independently and in collaboration with a range of other artists.

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