luke martin | composer, performer, writer
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I am a composer, performer, and writer. My work centers around the relation between music and truth, with a special focus on theorizing silence as such. Some questions that interest me are, what would constitute a music that speculates? How can thought access the absolute? Music has long been said to have a cosmic aspect to it: how might this 'true music' be approached non-dogmatically? And what might it offer us in terms of knowledge of things-in-themselves? I am oriented in this, philosophically, primarily by Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux and, musically, by those in and around the Wandelweiser Collective.
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I perform and improvise mainly on guitar and no-input mixer, most recently and frequently with the ensemble Ordinary Affects. I've had the great opportunity to work with and learn from a range of experimental musicians. The friendships formed and influence these people have had on my thinking and music have been enormous.

In addition, I co-direct, with Aaron Foster Breilyn, an experimental music festival in Boston, the co-incidence festival. I ran vespers, a series of experimental music concerts in Boston. And now, in Minneapolis, I co-organize the Hearkening film and music series with Andy Graydon. I've had music released on reading group, elsewhere, Wandelweiser, dinzu artefacts, ftarri/meena, fwd:rcrds, Another Timbre, marginal frequency, and rhizome.s. Some of it is on my bandcamp and this site.

I live in Minneapolis, MN and am making my way through a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse & Society at the University of Minnesota, specializing in speculative philosophy, statelessness and blackness, and music/sound studies. At UMN I study with Michael Gallope & Arun Saldanha. Before moving to Minnesota I lived in Boston and, prior to that, received an MFA in music composition from CalArts, where I studied with Michael Pisaro.
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  • about
  • composition
    • practices in the imaginary: 20, 50 people
    • practices in the imaginary: transparencies
    • daily activities >
      • daily activities: may 2018
      • daily activities: march
      • daily activities: february
      • daily activities: january
      • daily activities: august
      • daily activities: july
      • daily activities: june
      • daily activities: may
      • daily activities: april
  • releases
  • performing
  • links
    • divinizations zine (on meillassoux)
    • bandcamp
    • vespers concerts