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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 )
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 17 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Dialogues Festival, Inspace, University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
Nov 18 2009 12:00P
until Nov. 20 - LL masterclass @ University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, UK
Nov 24 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Logos Foundation Ghent, Belgium
Nov 26 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ Salon des Amateurs Düsseldorf, Germany
Nov 27 2009 8:00P
LL solo @ L’An Vert Liège, Belgium
Dec 15 2009 8:00P
Rite of Spring- Summer of Love - Burkina Electric w/Armitage Gone! Dance @ Grimaldi Forum Monte Carlo, Monaco
Dec 16 2009 8:00P
w/Burkina Electric @ Moods Concert Club 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
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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 or read Lukas's full EPK HERE.)

Transcending the boundaries of genre, composer-percussionist Lukas Ligeti has developed a musical style of his own that draws upon downtown New York experimentalism, contemporary classical music, jazz, electronica, as well as world music, particularly from Africa.  Known for his non-conformity and diverse interests, Lukas creates music ranging from the through-composed to the free-improvised, often exploring polyrhythmic/polytempo structures, non-tempered tunings, and non-western elements. Other major sources of inspiration include experimental mathematics, computer technology, architecture and visual art, sociology and politics, and travel. He has also been participating in cultural exchange projects in Africa for the past 15 years.

Born in Vienna, Austria into a Hungarian-Jewish family from which several important artists have come including his father, composer György Ligeti, Lukas started his musical adventures after finishing high school. He studied composition and percussion at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and then moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University before settling in New York City in 1998.

His commissions include 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 more; he also regularly collaborates with choreographer Karole Armitage.

As a drummer, he co-leads several bands and has performed and/or recorded with John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, Raoul Björkenheim, Gary Lucas, Michael Manring, Marilyn Crispell, Benoit Delbecq, Jim O’Rourke, Daniel Carter, John Tchicai, Eugene Chadbourne, and many others. He performs frequently on electronic percussion often using the marimba lumina, a rare instrument invented by California engineer Don Buchla.

His first trip to Africa, a commission in 1994 by the Goethe Institute to work with musicians in Côte d’Ivoire, embarked him on an exploration of cross-cultural collaboration that continues to this day. In Abidjan he co-founded the experimental, intercultural group Beta Foly which led to the release of his first CD Lukas Ligeti & Beta Foly in 1997. He has worked with Batonka musicians in Zimbabwe; collaborated with Nubian musicians in Egypt culminating in a concert at the Cairo Opera; and composed a piece for musicians for various Caribbean cultures which premiered in Miami Beach. In 2005, Lukas was featured at the Unyazi festival in Johannesburg, South Africa, the first festival for experimental electronic music in Africa, and in 2006, he was composer-in-residence at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Lukas traveled to Uganda in 2007 to collaborate with that country's premier music/dance/theater group, the Ndere Troupe, and in 2008, he taught composition at the University of Ghana at Legon (Accra). Lukas’ band Burkina Electric, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, combines African traditions with electronic dance music and has been touring internationally.

Recent highlights include a month-long curatorial project in March 2009 at The Stone in NYC; a solo concert as part of the Whitney Museum’s Composer Portrait Series; touring in support of his electronic percussion solo CD Afrikan Machinery (Tzadik Records); and an American Composers Orchestra commission and world premiere of “Labyrinth of Clouds” with Lukas on solo marimba lumina.

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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CageCabarrett

CageCabarrett



Nov 21 2009 5:13 PM


FREE DOUBLE ALBUM DOWNLOAD! ! !


Click in the covers' albuns for a free download - 14 soundscapes of pure frequencies ! ! !


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String Theory Recordings

String Theory Recordings



Nov 17 2009 1:28 AM

Coming Soon! String Theory Recordings presents, STRR002: Dubclot "Yout Man", in stores November 24, 2009. Featuring 4 mixes of Breakbeat dance music. Including mixes from Dubclot, Beat Mavericks, and James Nao. STRR002-promo-1
RAFAËL

RAFAËL



Nov 14 2009 9:35 PM

Tomorrow in NY // I do a performance at the Play with Fire Festival at 1717 Troutman come!!!! Is free!!! http://playwithfirefestival.wordpress.com/ http://leafar.be
Cuca Medina

Cuca Medina



Nov 11 2009 6:59 PM

Thanks for the add, Lukas!
Best regards!!
CM


Cassandra of Wishing Well Entertainment (Music)

Cassandra Pamachena



Nov 9 2009 11:09 PM

Keep ROCKIN!!!!  xo

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String Theory Recordings

String Theory Recordings



Nov 6 2009 8:39 AM

Check out the debut release on String Theory Recordings, STRR001: CC Rock_String Theory , in stores November 10, 2009. Featuring 4 mixes of House music (Progressive, Deep, Tech). Including mixes from CC Rock, Aleksus Sanchez, Locklear & Poppin, and RioTGeaR. STRR001 promo 1
Cassandra of Wishing Well Entertainment (Music)

Cassandra Pamachena



Nov 5 2009 8:03 PM

Have a great day and weekend!!
SubtleNoiseMaker

SubtleNoiseMaker



Nov 4 2009 5:12 PM

new cacophonator II in stock, with soundinput and feedbackpoti.
click pic for more info
Two White Monsters Around a Round Table

Two White Monsters Around a Round Table



Nov 4 2009 12:01 PM

Thanks for the friendship.
regrets from Porto
Monsters
Beverly Rego

Beverly Rego



Nov 4 2009 3:18 AM

thank you for the add
best from caracas
Carsten Lindholm

Carsten Lindholm



Nov 3 2009 9:33 PM

Thank YOU
Great work!
Carsten
drifting box celebration

drifting box celebration



Nov 3 2009 9:26 PM

merci d'avoir accepté l'invitation
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Nov 3 2009 8:44 PM

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Nathalie

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Nov 3 2009 7:31 PM

It's my pleasure !
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Oct 30 2009 11:36 PM

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Oct 27 2009 1:34 AM

dos Amigos Tees...

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Oct 27 2009 12:47 AM

Hi Friend....Sending you "Crow House", ....hope you like it,

check the links if you can......and have a festive weekend.

Love From
dos Amigos
XXX
Peyj


dos Amigos Tees...

dos Amigos Tees...



Oct 20 2009 2:17 AM



Wishing you a wonderful week!
XXX
Peyj
dos Amigos Tees
yoshi hampl

yoshi hampl



Oct 15 2009 3:40 PM

GOOD NEWS for you all this fall!!

special  offer!

feel free
to order my latest CD "WATER DEALER" for € 12,99 / $ 19,37(shipping included) at our shop
 http://www.iapetus-store.com
the first 40 persons who will order the CD and pay via PayPal will get the bonus CD "Dubaware Soundsystem" for free!!  prosperous time for you...







dos Amigos Tees...

dos Amigos Tees...



Oct 13 2009 9:24 PM

Hi,
Checking in with our latest Autumn Tee design and wishes for a wonderful week.
XXX
Peyj
dos Amigos

La Miss Eto'o Dancer/Choreographer

La Miss Eto'o Dancer/Choreographer



Oct 9 2009 3:44 PM

Hi Lukas,
I am stopping by your page to wish you a great weekend. Are you in NY? Any performance updates?
Peace and love,
Eto'o
Golden Lab Records

Nick Mitchell



Oct 8 2009 11:26 AM

Bridget Hayden CDR (ROWF16) out now

Recorded at The Bowling Green pub in Manchester on 17th November 2008, when Bridget was on tour with Marcia Bassett, this is a maximal 25-minute set of epic guitar brutalising and deep, moaned vocal incantations. Employing a bow and 'metal' effects pedals, the resulting cacophony is orchestral in scope, rendering almost unreliable the memory of one woman and her instrument. Somewhat akin to Bassett's duo with Matthew Bower, Hototogisu, the deeply layered tones created by Hayden offer, upon first exposure, a somewhat icy auditory experience, but as the recording settles in, the richness and sheer breadth of sound wraps around you like a feather quilt and shifts your perception almost 180 degrees. A truly magnificent set from this former Vibracathedral Orchestra member.

Limited to 80 copies with sleeves printed on recycled paper using soya based ink

Pay by Paypal to goldenlabrecordings@hotmail.co.uk

£5.99 (UK)

£6.99 (Europe)

£7.99 (USA/Canada/R.o.W.)

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Oct 4 2009 11:11 AM

Sound Theater Mushin

Sound Theater Mushin



Sep 30 2009 5:46 PM

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