I n t e r a k t i o n s - L a b o r
Luca Forcucci
(Switzerland)
Luca Forcucci is a composer, performer and sound artist. He focuses on the sonic properties of architectural spaces, immaterial architectures, places, natural resorts and digital environments.
In 2009, he is an artist in residence at the Brain Mind Institute of EPFL,
Lausanne, Switzerland. This is part of the programme Swiss Artists in Lab.The
research is based on emotions, mental imagery and music generated by brain
waves (EEG). In 2008, he travels to the Mamori Art Lab, directed by Francisco
Lopez in Amazonia, for field recording exploration and deep listening.
During the
FIH (International Theatre Festival of Belo Horizonte 2008) and part of Interaktionlabor
08, he explores the sound possibilities, with independent media
choreographer Johannes Birringer, of digital performance.
Luca graduates in 2007 with a Master in Sonic Arts from the Queens University
of Belfast. With Eric Lyon and Sile O'Modhrain, he works on electro acoustic
works, field recordings and sound installations (with a particular interest
for movement, sensors and space as an element of composition).
His project 2 HUMANS & THE COSMOS is a work based on the interaction between
live musician and electronic music. The cellist Michael Kott, from New Mexico,
is involved in opening a new channel for the cello. The record "Alien
Love song", released in 2005 is the result of the exploration.
With Whitman McGowan (poet from San Francisco), a dynamic exchange from the
writings to the music is created. From this collaboration exists a live recording
called "Caught in the act", released in 2003, with concerts in Europe
and USA.
In 1997 he
decides to create a musical project in assembling spoken - word and electronic
music. At the beginning the texts of Henri Michaud, William S. Burroughs,
Shakespeare and Pablo Neruda are mixed with electronic music from turntables.
The project is called A-poetik and is later produced by Al Comet (active member
of The Young Gods, the Swiss pioneer band in electronic music). The record
(300'000km) is released on Universal music during the Montreux Jazz festival
of 2001.
Before that Luca is a DJ & producer, who play around European clubs, venues,
squats for 15 years, an avid bass player and a promoter of concerts.
His work
was presented, among other places, here:
FILE - Electronic Language Festival - Sao Paulo / Brazil, International Theatre
Festival - Belo Horizonte / Brazil, Palacio Das Artes - Belo Horizonte / Brazil,
SoundPool VI - Köln, SARC - Belfast, Rote Fabrik - Zürich, Palais
XTRA - Zürich, Fri-son - Fribourg, L-Usine - Geneva, Bad Bonn Kilbi -
Düdingen, La Coupole - Bienne, Reithalle - Bern, Montreux Jazz Festival,
Cully Jazz Festival, Institut Suisse - Rome, Institut Français - Ljubljana,
Aeronef - Lille, Blue Note - London, Le Bateau Phare - Paris, Le Magasin 4
- Bruxelles, Bastard - Berlin, Stubnitz -Rostock, European Cultural Capital
- Stockholm 1998, Gallery Lucy Macintosh - Lausanne, Fringe Festival - Edinburgh
Trocadero - Philadelphia / USA, Knitting Factory - Los Angeles Cell Theatre
- Santa Fe - New Mexico / USA Onda Sonora Radio - Madrid, La Planète
Bleue Radio Show, United Colors of Sound Radio - Amsterdam, Star End-s Radio
- Philadelphia, The Dark Room at Pacifica-Radio KPFK Los Angeles, Scanner
FM Radio - Barcelona, Elektra Experimental Radio - Bourges, RSR La Première
Radio, Couleur 3, Radio LORA - Zürich
Links:
www.lucalyptus.com
www.cdbaby.com/cd/2humanscosmos
www.myspace.com/2humansthecosmos
www.myspace.com/lucalyptus
www.myspace.com/sonoramonamour