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Interview: Aloe Records (2023) / Sound Expanse (2018) / Somerville Arts (2018)

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. I am oriented in this, philosophically, by thinkers including Alain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Alenka Zupančič, and Simone Weil and, musically, by those in and around the Wandelweiser Collective.
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I perform and improvise on guitar, sine generator, and the no-input mixing board, with friends and 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, the co-incidence festival. I help organize concerts with friends in the various cities I've lived - now in Minneapolis with Noah Ophoven-Baldwin. I've had music released on reading group, elsewhere, Wandelweiser, dinzu artefacts, ftarri/meena, fwd:rcrds, Another Timbre, marginal frequency, Suppedaneum, rhizome.s, and others. Some of it is on my bandcamp and this site.

Before moving to Minneapolis, I lived in Boston and, prior to that, I received an MFA in music composition from CalArts, where I studied with Michael Pisaro-Liu. I am now ABD in Comparative Studies in Discourse & Society at UMN, working on a dissertation on experimental music, philosophy, and silence, and studying with Arun Saldanha & Michael Gallope.

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Short Bio
Luke Martin is an experimental musician and writer living in Minneapolis. He plays guitar, sine generator, and no-input mixing board, often with people in and around the Wandelweiser Group, and is part of the ensemble Ordinary Affects. Luke's work focuses on silence and the relation between music and truth.