luke martin | composer, performer, writer
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[UPDATED Feb 2023]

August 18-27, 2023
Neufelden, Austria: The Station
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 6)

April 17, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Icehouse
Adam Zahller & Luke Martin duo
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April 10, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Icehouse
Realtree plays Noah Ophoven-Baldwin

March 23, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
James P. Falzone & Luke Martin duo
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March 9, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Derek Baron & Luke Martin duo

March 5, 2023
Ithaca, NY: Cornell
Ordinary Affects

February 26, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
T.J. Bordon & Luke Martin duo

February 9, 2023
Minneapolis, MN: Resource
Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Luke Martin duo

January 9, 2023
Saint Paul, MN: White Squirrel Bar
Solo improvisation, NIMB

December 18, 2022
Providence, RI: RISD
Ordinary Affects

November 10, 2022
New Orleans, LA: Scatter Jazz at Zeitgeist

Improvisation with Derek Baron

November 9, 2022
New Orleans, LA: Hi Ho

Solo improvisation, NIMB

October 15, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Adam & Elektra's

Improvisation with Max Wanderman

October 13, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Eagles Club

Solo improvisation, NIMB

September 11, 2022
London, UK: Hill Station Cafe

Pieces with James Creed and friends

September 7, 2022
London, UK: Hundred Years Gallery

Improvisation with N.O. Moore

August 27, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Patrick & Alana's
Improvisation with Noah Ophoven-Baldwin & Max Wanderman

August 15-24, 2022
Lovell, ME: Hewnoaks Residency with Ordinary Affects

July 29, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: The Pink Slip
Improvisation with Adam Zahller

June 11, 2022
Minneapolis, MN: Hearkening Concert Series
Improvisation with Douglas Kearney & Dameun Strange

January 2-8, 2022
Somerville, MA: WSAC
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 5)

July 23-26, 2021
Townsend, VT: Ordinary Affects

July 12, 2021
Minneapolis, MN: Adam's
Improvisation with TJ Borden

July 21, 2020
Non-Event at Home
'For James' (Luke Martin)

January 10-18, 2020
Somerville, MA: WSAC
Co-Incidence Festival (Year 4)

Sep 22, 2019
Saint Paul, MN: Vespers Concerts
Pieces with Doug Farrand

July 29 - August 4, 2019
Dusseldorf, Germany
Klangraum Festival

July 28, 2019
Berlin, Germany
KM28 Series

July 25-28, 2019
Neufelden, Austria

July 23-25, 2019
Aarau, Switzerland

July 20-22, 2019
The Hague, Netherlands

July 18, 2019
Huddersfield, England (with Ryoko Akama)

July 15-18
London, England

May 19, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: traces of the divine (Ordinary Affects)

May 18, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: ghosts (Chris Strunk, Andrea Pensado, Jennie Gottschalk, Luke Martin)

May 17, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: reading (Andy Graydon, Jose Rivera, Rahul Nair, Luke Martin)

May 16, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: each day i must think of 20, 50 people (Jose Rivera, Rahul Nair, Luke Martin)

May 15, 2019
Union Square, Somerville
practices in the imaginary: transparencies (Luke Martin)

April 24-29, 2019
Venice, Italy
Sound Kite Orchestra (with Florian Dombois)

April 7, 2019
Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg

April 6, 2019
The Red Room, Baltimore
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg

April 5, 2019
Columbia University, New York City
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg

April 4, 2019

Bowerbird, Philadelphia
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg

April 3, 2019

Non-Event, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg

April 1, 2019

New England Conservatory, Boston

Ordinary Affects + Magnus Granberg

January 11-20, 2019
WSAC, Somerville
The Co-Incidence Festival (Year 3)

November 30, 2018
Emerson College, Boston
Guest Artist Lecture

November 14, 2018
New England Conservatory, Boston
Ordinary Affects + Christian Wolff (New Work 'For Ordinary Affects')

November 2, 2018
Wesleyan University, CT
JPA Falzone Recital

Oct 26-28, 2018
SITE/less, Chicago
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]


Oct 23, 2018
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]


Oct 19, 2018
Dartmouth College: Concert & Workshop
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben

Oct 16, 2018
The Yard, Boston: Concert
Standing Waves, feat Eva-Maria Houben, perf with Ordinary Affects

Oct 15, 2018
Spectrum, NYC: Concert
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben

Oct 13-14, 2018
Wesleyan University: Recording & Workshop
Ordinary Affects + Eva-Maria Houben

Sep 15, 2018
Fog X Flo (Fujiko Nakaya Fog Sculptures)
"practices in the imaginary: reading" (12 hours), perf by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Breilyn

Aug 28, 2018
Yellowfish Performance Art Festival (Seattle)
"recursive retent" perf by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Breilyn

Aug 9, 2018
Aviary Gallery, JP
"potentially together (3)," "possible deltas," "stück 2004(2)" perf by Luke Martin

Jul 22, 2018
MIT Press Bookstore
Standing Waves feat Nomi Epstein, perf by Ordinary Affects

June 24, 2018
MIT Press Bookstore
Standing Waves feat Derek Baron, perf by Ordinary Affects

June 11-17, 2018
Performances at DogStar Festival, Los Angeles

May 20, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
Performance of new works by OA

April 4, 2018
Santa Monica Library Public Library
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]

April 7, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
Performance of 'Ascending Series' by Michael Pisaro

April 6, 2018
SUNY Stony Brook, DMA Flute Recital
(Public) performance of 'possible deltas'

March 26, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ Wesleyan
Performance with Jordan Dykstra of new works by Dykstra

March 23, 2018
Pitzer College Art Galleries
Propositional Attitudes (Elana Mann, John Burtle) Book Launch [Score included]

March 18, 2018
Ordinary Affects @ RISD
New durational work by Jordan Dykstra

March 10, 2018
the wulf., Los Angeles
Performance of 'practice (1)' and works by Amy Golden, Tim Tsang & Parch Es, and Marta Tiesenga

January 19 - 28, 2018
The Co-Incidence Festival
Washington Street Art Center, Somerville MA

January 17, 2018
Midway Series, Jamaica Plain MA
Solo performance "now is the moment to learn hope" by Antoine Beuger

November 12, 2017
Standing Waves #11, EMW Bookstore, Cambridge MA
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey
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November 11, 2017
Recording Session
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey

November 10, 2017
Dartmouth College
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey

November 9, 2017
Wesleyan University
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey

November 8, 2017
Non-Event / swissnex, Cambridge, MA
Jurg Frey Tour: Ordinary Affects + Jurg Frey

October 22, 2017
Standing Waves, Cambridge, MA
Ordinary Affects performs Andre Cormier

September 28, 2017
Third Life Studios, Somerville, MA
OpenSound: Performance with Grizzler (new piece)

September 23, 2017
Vernon St. Studios, Somerville, MA
Ordinary Affects performs Patrick Farmer and Doug Farrand

September 22, 2017
The Goethe-Institut, Boston (Non-Event)
Installation: 'Time Transcriptions' // solo improvisation (no-input mixer)

August 17, 2017
Blue Bag Records, Cambridge, MA
Duo w/ Morgan Evans-Weiler
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August 6, 2017
Third Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance with Katie Porter of Michael Pisaro’s ‘asleep, street, pipes, tones’ / Brian Eubanks 'Object VII'
 
August 6, 2017
Washington St. Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance with Ordinary Affects of four new works by each of the ensemble members (via Avaloch Residency)
 
July 23, 2017
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Performance with Ordinary Affects of Antoine Beuger’s ‘three drops of rain / east wind / ocean’ (7 hrs)

June 17, 2017
DogStar Festival @ Human Resources, Los Angeles
Performance with DogStar Orchestra of Brecht, Krieger, and Corrall

June 16, 2017
DogStar Festival @ CalArts, Los Angeles
Performance of John Cage's 'Empty Words' with Tim Tsang, Jen Hutton, Eric Heep

June 15, 2017
DogStar Festival @ CalArts, Los Angeles
Performance of 'let it go beyond a certain point' by James Saunders

June 13, 2017
DogStar Festival @ Coaxial, Los Angeles
Jordan Dykstra's 'Pitch Gradient with Noise in D'

April 29, 2017
Non-Event @ Goethe-Institut, Boston
Featuring: Ordinary Affects (Morgan Evans-Weiler, Laura Cetilia, J. P. A. Falzone, Luke Martin); performance of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'

April 23, 2017
Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 22, 2017
Jim Strong - Fire Dinner, Narbeth (Philadelphia), PA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 21, 2017
Red Room, Baltimore, MD
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 20, 2017
Rhizome D.C., Washington D.C.
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 19, 2017
Palanzo's, Pittsburgh, PA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 18, 2017
The Canopy, Cleveland, OH
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 17, 2017
Robinwood Concert House, Toledo, OH
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 16, 2017
Sugar City, Buffalo, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 15, 2017
MAC650 Gallery, Middletown, CT
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 14, 2017
Chateau Gelineau, Holyoke, MA
Morgan Evans-Weiler & Luke Martin (East Coast Tour)

April 7, 2017
Open Sound: ​Third Life Gallery, Somerville, MA
Variant State [quartet]

April 1, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery, Somerville, MA
Ordinary Affects

March 25, 2017
Open Sound: Third Life Gallery, Somerville, MA
Pauline Oliveros Tribute

March 18, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery, Somerville, MA
Todd Lerew, Sarah Pitan, Luke Martin

January 24 - 30, 2017
Non-Event @ Washington St. Gallery, Boston: (THE) CO-INCIDENCE FESTIVAL
experimental music festival featuring 7 guest artists (Ben Levinson, Carolyn Chen, Chris Williams, Cindy Giron, Elizabeth A. Baker, Mike Bullock, Sarah Pitan), and resident artist Michael Pisaro; co-directed by Luke Martin & Aaron Foster Bresley

January 21, 2017
​ABC Place, Los Angeles
Featuring: Luke Martin & friends; performance of 'a piece for leaves and ice (a piece for autumn)'

January 19, 2017
Val Verde House, California
​Featuring: Tim Tsang, Erika Bell, Marta Tiesenga, Danny Clarke, Eric Heep, Luke Martin

January 17, 2017
ArtShare-LA, Los Angeles
Featuring: Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez, Ethan Marks, Luke Martin; performance of 'other-texts (3/SCF-EM)'

January 16, 2017
Ham 'N Eggs, Los Angeles
Featuring: sinecure (Luke Martin, Andrew Young, Ben Levinson, Isaac Aronson), and others TBD

January 15, 2017
4016 Michigan Ave., Los Angeles
Featuring: solo sets

January 14, 2017
the wulf. @ betalevel, Los Angeles
Featuring: Andrew Young, Ben Levinson, Ryan Gaston, Davy Sumner, Amy Golden, Luke Martin; perf. of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'

January 13, 2017
Automata-LA, Los Angeles
Featuring: Amy Golden, Luke Martin (more TBD); perf. of 'other-texts (2/)'

January 12, 2017
mise-en place, New York City
Featuring: Aaron Foster Bresley, Thea Mesirow, Leia Slosberg, Luke Martin; perf. of 'so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless'

January 10, 2017
Blank Space Concerts, New York City
Featuring: Aaron Foster Bresley, Luke Martin; perf. of 'other-texts (1/AFB)'

January 6, 2017
Washington Street Art Gallery
Performance with 'Ordinary Affects' of works by Morgan Evans-Weiler

December 21, 2016
Mobius Space, Boston, MA
Duo set with Morgan Evans-Weiler; no-input mixer, objects

December 17, 2016
Washington St. Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance of Cardew with 'Grizzlr' Improv Group
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December 15, 2016
Rare Frequency Podcast 90.3, Boston, MA (Susanna Bolle)
Solo radio set; no-input mixer, laptop, objects, speaking

November 4, 2016
Washington Street Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Show with Andy Young, Devin Gibbs, Hallie Smith, Andrew Harlan; performance of 'stream, wind, reach'
 
October 28, 2016
Third Life Gallery, Boston, MA
Duo show with Andy Young; performance of 'stream, wind, reach'

October 20, 2016
Mobius Space, Boston, MA
noise set; no-input mixer; with James Bean, John Pax, Max Murray, Weston Olencki, Matt Barbier
 
October 14, 2016
59 Shepard St, Boston, MA
noise set; no-input mixer; with James Bean and John Pax
 
October 7, 2016
Washington St. Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Performance of co-incide, for a group (perf. by Luke Martin and ensemble)
 
October 1 and 2, 2016
Washington St. Art Gallery, Boston, MA; Providence, RI
Performance of a new work by Michael Pisaro, Morgan Evans-Weiler with group Ordinary Affects
 
August 13, 2016
Open Space Concerts: Darmstadt (Germany)
Performance of so softly that it came, a wild dim chatter, meaningless (perf. by Jacobo Hernandez, Rosa Soler, Christian Smith)
 
July 20, 2016
Parlor Bar and Café
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performing with Andy Young
 
July 16, 2016
Conservatorio Superior de Musica (Valencia, Spain)
Performance of co-incide (perf. by Luke Martin)
 
July 15, 2016
Conservatorio Superior de Musica (Valencia, Spain)
Performance of shifting inflections (1) (perf. by Erik Drescher, glissando flute)
 
June 21, 2016
Automata-LA (L.A., U.S.)
Andy Young and Luke Martin at Automata (perf. of co-incide, for a group; perf. by Luke Martin and ensemble)
 
June 18, 2016
DogStar Concert Series LA (L.A., U.S.)
Performed as part of the DogStar Orchestra
 
June 16, 2016
DogStar Concert Series LA (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of recursive retent (perf. by Luke Martin and Aaron Foster Bresley)
 
May 31, 2016
Hochschule für Musik (Basel, Switzerland)
Performance of murmur our divine aphasia (perf. by Jacobo Hernandez)
 
May 5, 2016
Lecture/Performance Series, CalArts
A Lecture on Silence (perf. by Luke Martin)
 
April 17, 2016
ArtShare-LA, Solo Violin Recital (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performance of bland transition perception system (spring words rhizome wings) (perf. by Sara Cubarsi-Fernandez)
 
April 10, 2016
the wulf. (Los Angeles, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performing with Seth Cluett, Michael Pisaro, and Isaac Aronson
 
March 29, 2016
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Luke Martin’s MFA Graduation Recital (perf. of 7 new works)
 
February 23, 2016
Roy O. Disney Hall, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; perf. with Ben Levinson and Andrew Young
 
February 13, 2016
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 2: histories, residues no. 4: fragilities, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Luigi Polcari)
 
February 5, 2016
Battery Books and Music (Pasadena, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson and Andrew Young
 
January 31, 2016
The Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of many points (perf. by Mark Menzies and Erika Duke-Kirkpatrick)
 
January 23, 2016
Automata-LA (Los Angeles, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 1: remembrances, residues no. 2: histories, residues no. 4: fragilities, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Luigi Polcari)
 
January 15, 2016
Center for New Music SF (San Francisco, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson, Ken Ueno, and Matt Ingalls
 
January 14, 2016
UCSB Radio Show (Santa Barbara, U.S.)
sinecure (noise group); no-input mixer; performed with Ben Levinson
 
January 8, 2016
the wulf. (Los Angeles, U.S.)
String quartets: residues no. 1: remembrances, residues no. 3: structures, residues no. 5: unfoldings (perf. by Jonathan Tang, Joy Yi, Yvette Holzwarth, Thea Mesirow)

December 14, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of ruptures (perf. by The Ensemble at CalArts)
 
December 13, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performance of this wild laughter, these cries (perf. by The Contemporary Vocal Ensemble)
 
December 12, 2015
1142 E 11th Street, DEDCAT Society (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performance of circles of possible convergence (perf. by James Waterman, Jordan Dykstra, Luigi Polcari, Keenan Dimick, Luke Martin)
 
December 5, 2015
Echo Park Film Center (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performed with Readers Chorus LA; performance of i can still see
 
November 21, 2015
Wild Beast, CalArts (Valencia, U.S.)
Performed with Michael Pisaro and Experimental Music Workshop; performance of Michael Pisaro’s living with the death of time and untime in the grey darkness
 
November 13 & 14, 2015
Automata-LA (Los Angeles, U.S.)
Performed with Readers Chorus LA; performance of i can still see
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  • about
  • music & recordings
  • performances
  • scores
  • links
    • Co-Incidence Festival
    • Bandcamp
    • SoundCloud
    • vespers / hearkening concerts
    • divinizations zine
    • UMN