Neil Luck is a composer and artist based in London.

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His work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself.

 

Neil’s work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings. He is the founder and director of the music-theatre ensemble ARCO; an experimental music-theatre company.

 

Neil has worked with and written for people and ensembles in the UK and abroad, and presented work at music venues, festivals, and galleries internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern, BBC Proms, Aarhus and Vilnius European Capital of Culture festivals (2017, 2009), V&A, Tokyo Experimental Festival, London Contemporary Music Festival, BBC Radio 3, Venice Biennale, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (New York), BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), November Music, Klangforum Wien, OEIN, Apartment House, and Explore Ensemble.

Neil also performs with artist Jennifer Walshe in the duo WACK, touring internationally.

 

His music has been released on several labels including Entr'acte, Nonclassical, Accidental Records, and squib-box.

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Neil has been resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), Mahler Lewitt studios (Spoleto, Italy), Kinosaki Arts Centre (Japan), and aqb (Budapest, Hungary).

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He is currently professor of Experimental music performance at the Royal College of Music, London.

 

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neilluck [at] hotmail [dot] co [dot] uk