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Lukas Ligeti
Experimental / Classical / Other

A luta continua



Bushwick, BROOKLYN, New York
United States

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Member Since2/24/2007
Band Websitehttp://www.lukasligeti.com
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Record LabelTzadik, TUM, Cuneiform, AtaTak, etc.
Type of LabelIndie


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   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Jul 15 2009 7:15P
LL solo @ Barney Danson Theatre Stage, Ottawa Bluesfest Ottawa, Ontario
Jul 31 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Electric Eclectics Festival Meaford, Ontario
Aug 5 2009 11:45P
w/Cilla Vee’s Shrine Performance @ Chashama Space New York, New York
Aug 8 2009 8:00P
w/Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi’s Tehran-Dakar Brothers @ Gershwin Hotel New York, New York
Sep 5 2009 8:00P
Ensemble Bash performs Pattern Transformation @ St. Hugh’s Music Festival Grimsby, UK
Sep 12 2009 4:00P
Jennifer Hymer premieres "Dust" @ Klang!-Container Hamburg, Germany
Sep 13 2009 4:00P
Jennifer Hymer performs "Dust" @ Klang!-Container Hamburg, Germany
Sep 16 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ San Francisco Electronic Music Festival San Francisco, California
Sep 27 2009 8:00P
w/Hypercolor @ Kerrytown Concert House 25th Anniversary Festival Ann Arbor, Michigan
Nov 4 2009 7:30P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Next Wave Festival Brooklyn, New York
Nov 6 2009 7:30P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Next Wave Festival Brooklyn, New York
Nov 7 2009 7:30P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Next Wave Festival Brooklyn, New York
Nov 13 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Holywell Oxford, UK
Nov 14 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Arnolfini Bristol, UK
Nov 16 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London Jazz Festival London, UK
Nov 24 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Logos Foundation Ghent, Belgium
Dec 15 2009 8:00P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Dance Forum Monte Carlo, Monaco
Feb 6 2010 8:00P
w/Burkina Electric, + Present Music performs "Moving Houses", @ Turner Hall Ballroom Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Feb 19 2010 8:00P
w/Burkina Electric @ Newman Center, Mile High Voltage Festival Denver, Colorado
Feb 23 2010 8:00P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Grand Théâtre de Verviers, Festival Pays de Danses Verviers, Belgium
Feb 26 2010 8:00P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Ludwig-Forum, Schrittmacher Festival Aachen, Germany
Feb 27 2010 8:00P
Itutu - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Ludwig-Forum, Schrittmacher Festival Aachen, Germany

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   About Lukas Ligeti
NEW CD - AFRIKAN MACHINERY - OUT NOW ON TZADIK Order at www.tzadik.com or at www.lukasligeti.com

"This is remarkable music...Ligeti represents, under a Clark Kent exterior, a new generation of musical Superman -- a globally minded, technologically adept, technically sophisticated composer who also happens to be a virtuoso performer and accomplished improviser...There wasn't a dull second." -Mark Swed, reviewing a recent LL solo concert in the Los Angeles Times
(...see below for more press quotes.)

Composer-percussionist LUKAS LIGETI is developing a style of music uniquely his own, drawing upon Downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary classical music, jazz, electronica, as well as world music, particularly from Africa. His CD "Mystery System" (Tzadik Records) has been hailed as "the future of music" (Jan P. Dennis, amazon.com), and he has been called "a distinctive and energetic voice...that walks a skillful line between the comprehensible and the unpredictable" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "a young musician with enormous imagination and energy" (Fanfare Magazine), The Wire writing that "Lukas Ligeti...practises what many other composers only preach in the abstract". His collaborations with African musicians have been described as "a new dimension in the dialogue between Africa and the Western world" (Ulrich Olshausen, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

Oblivious to categorizations such as “classical”, “pop”, etc., Lukas' main interests include cultural exchange, new forms of interplay between musicians in an ensemble, polyrhythms/polytempo structures, and non-tempered tunings, and his music ranges from the through-composed to the free-improvised. Other major sources of inspiration include experimental mathematics, computer technology, architecture and visual art, sociology and politics, and traveling.

His concert music has been commissioned by Bang on a Can, the Vienna Festwochen, Ensemble Modern, Kronos Quartet, Colin Currie and Håkan Hardenberger, the American Composers Forum, New York University, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Company, Radio France, and many others. He has just completed a concerto for electronic percussion and orchestra commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra and is currently working on a piece for solo marimba commissioned by a consortium of marimba virtuosi, and on music for "The Elegant Universe", a dance performance choreographed by Karole Armitage inspired by the book of the same title by Brian Greene.

He frequently performs solo on electronic percussion, and as a drummer co-leads several bands, such as Burkina Electric, Hypercolor, and the Raoul Björkenheim/Lukas Ligeti Duo; a number of new projects are in the works. He has also performed and/or recorded with John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, Marilyn Crispell, Michelle Makarski, Gary Lucas, Eugene Chadbourne, Daniel Carter, John Tchicai, Pyrolator, Elliott Sharp, Jonas Hellborg, Jim O’Rourke, Robert Dick, Massimo Pupillo, Borah Bergman, and many others. A CD of his quintet featuring Gianni Gebbia, Aly Keïta, Benoît Delbecq, and Michael Manring will soon be released on Innova Records.

In 1994, commissioned by the Goethe Institute, he conducted a workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and co-founded the experimental, intercultural group Beta Foly, leading to numerous residencies in that city, much touring in Europe, and the release of his first CD as a bandleader, “Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly” on Intuition Music in 1997. He has worked on a project involving the Batonka people of the Lake Kariba area, performing in Zimbabwe and Mozambique; collaborated with Nubian musicians in Egypt, culminating in a joint concert at the Cairo Opera; composed a piece for musicians of different Caribbean cultures which premiered in Miami Beach; and, since 2000, has collaborated with singer Maï Lingani from Burkina Faso. Their newest joint project, Burkina Electric, began in 2004 and combines the traditional music of that country with dance-oriented electronica; the band is currently touring in the U.S. and recently released the double EP "Rêem Tekré" with remixes by DJ Spooky and others on Atatak Records (Germany). In 2005, Lukas was featured at the Unyazi festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first ever festival for experimental electronic music in Africa, and in 2006, he was composer-in-residence at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. In 2007, he traveled to Uganda to collaborate with that country's premier music/dance/theater group, the Ndere Troupe; in 2008, he taught composition at the Unviersity of Ghana at Legon (Accra).

Lukas Ligeti was born in Vienna, Austria into a remarkable artistic family with ancestors such as violinist Leopold Auer (teacher of Heifetz and Milstein), architect/designer Marcel Breuer, and, of course, his father, the great composer György Ligeti. Lukas himself focused on writing and science during his school years, taking up the drums only after graduating from high school. He studied composition and percussion at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, obtaining a masters degree, and then moved to the U.S. After working for two years at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, he has lived in New York City since 1998.

PRAISE FOR AFRIKAN MACHINERY:
“One of the world’s top classical composers…”; “the rhythms grow wildly complex, as if African music had been chopped and split apart, and the pieces reassembled at odd angles to each other. But still there's a typically African sense of community in each of the album's … tracks…. It's absorbing to hear, from start to finish.” -Greg Sandow, Wall Street Journal (U.S.)
“sophisticated music that has communicative directness yet retains a sense of mystery…he really knows sound and how it lives in the mind.” –Julian Cowley, The Wire (U.K.)
“eine kühne Musik…lässig tanzt Ligeti auf dem Seil, das er zwischen Tradition und Zukunft spannt.” –Christoph Wagner, Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland)
“brilliant CD – which neatly bridges the classical-modernist-world-music divide… If his art represents a melange of Europe, America, and Africa, it does so with unique finesse… The whole thing keeps you on the edge of your seat, waiting to see what comes next.” -The Scotsman (U.K.)
“Lukas Ligeti has crafted an absolute masterpiece… Easily record-of-the-year thus far, and slowly becoming one of my favorite records of all time,” - http://www.adrian-clement.com/blog (Australia)
“…grandiose kosmopolitische Sample-Choreographie…sehr innovative Musik, deren Spannung nie abläßt, da sich hinter jeder Biegung und jedem Bruch neue Farben, Bewegungen und Sounds eröffnen. Große Klasse.” –DeBug (Germany)


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O Cantinho dos Amigos, Tees





Jul 11 2009 5:47 AM

Wishes from dos Amigos! Have a sizzling HOT weekend Friend....we appreciate your support.
XXX
Peyj
dos Amigos Tees

aide auditive





Jul 3 2009 3:00 PM



Marco Tocilj





Jun 29 2009 9:31 AM

aide auditive





Jun 27 2009 8:37 AM



Trio Tarana





Jun 26 2009 4:00 PM

Thanks Lukas!  I love the Burkina Electric concept... would love to talk to you more about it.. hope to keep in touch, and be well.  Greetings from Vienna!
-Ravish
niky





Jun 25 2009 9:31 PM

even for me and been a real pleasure ... I hope to meet again soon ... a big kiss hello lukas
Lucy Railton (cello)





Jun 25 2009 10:31 AM

KAMMER KLANG NEXT TUES 30TH, please come down! CAFE OTO, 7.30
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Jun 25 2009 6:32 AM

THANKS A LOT FOR THE FRIENDSHIP LUKAS! MY BEST WISHES FOR YOU AND YOUR WORK.
Marco Tocilj





Jun 23 2009 11:36 PM

locandina porgy 25giugno
giorgia





Jun 23 2009 11:22 PM

Hi Lukas!
I'm good, thanks. hope you are doing well too...
looking forward to work with you again!
Mark Isham





Jun 23 2009 4:27 PM

Hey, thanks for the add! Hope you are doing great!
Mark
Kate Ceberano & Mark Isham - Bittersweet
http://www.bittersweetthealbum.com
dj ben i sabbah





Jun 23 2009 2:20 PM

thanks for add and friendship

Oscar Kreimer





Jun 22 2009 4:59 PM

Thanks Lukas
   
Jean-noël Nupin





Jun 22 2009 6:18 AM

Thanks for the friendship, very nice music! Greetings from Marseille.

Jno
Marco Tocilj





Jun 21 2009 10:47 PM

wanna thank you
Pratje Para





Jun 21 2009 4:53 PM

Thanks for being a friend!

PP

O Cantinho dos Amigos, Tees





Jun 21 2009 5:34 AM

Have a happy Father's Day Weekend. "Sing to me in the language of the birds".......hope you like it!

XXX
Peyj
dos Amigos


Petter Vaagan





Jun 19 2009 12:08 PM

Hi! Just uploaded a video from a solo-gig i did recently to my space, with the brilliant Pekka Stokke on visuals. Feel free to check it out!
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Jun 18 2009 11:53 PM

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Jun 13 2009 8:10 AM

Hi Friend....Sending you "Crow House", and "Fly With Me"....hope you like it, check the links if you can......and have a festive weekend.

Love From
dos Amigos
XXX
Peyj

Ella Joyce Buckley





Jun 12 2009 1:02 PM

Yep I'm based in Brooklyn, but home is South Africa...... nice to encounter your profile!
SodaCan





Jun 9 2009 4:54 AM

Great song on Whale Music Remixed!
Per Olund band





Jun 7 2009 11:16 PM

Lukas!
New song "Trauma" feat Ossian Rock.


Voice - Per Olund and Ossian Rock.
Crazy Ace aka Worst Breed aka Poverty101





Jun 5 2009 1:16 AM

Lukas how is the music coming along.
Live Looping Festival "in Rome"





Jun 3 2009 11:14 AM

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