Luke Nickel

(b. 1988) is an award-winning Canadian interdisciplinary artist, composer, and researcher currently living in Berlin, Germany. His works knot together themes of memory, transcription, translation, queer identity, technology, and impossible roller coasters. In addition to orally-transmitted music compositions, he creates traditionally-notated musical works, audiovisual performances, installations, videos, and texts. He has created work with internationally-established soloists and chamber ensembles such as Mira Benjamin, Zubin Kanga, Quatuor Bozzini, and EXAUDI. He has created work with visual and multimedia artists such as Freya Olafson and Beth Frey. About his work, Jennie Gottschalk writes: “...there is an unusual quality of rawness. The players are participating in an oral, folkloric tradition without any sense of irony or flippancy” (Experimental Music Since 1970).