Luca Forcucci

Luca Forcucci (CH/IT) is an artist and composer with a focus on perception, subjectivity and consciousness, which he explores through performances, electroacoustic compositions, installations, photography and texts.

He has collaborated with dancers in Brazil and California, with choreographers, with musicians playing indigenous instruments in Southern Africa, with musicians playing contemporary music, with turntabilists, with poets in the previous century (with Jalal of the last poets, opening for Gil Scott Heron, or with Whitman McGowan in San Francisco). He records sonic material during expeditions in the Brazilian Amazon, Shanghai, the Swiss Alps and the Norwegian fjords among others. He also regularly collaborates with neuroscientists on questions regarding the perceptive properties and the field of possibilities of the first-person experience.

Forcucci’s music is published by Subrosa in Bruxelles, Universal music, Cronica Electronica in Porto, Glistening Examples in the USA, Elektramusic in France, Syrphe in Berlin, on his very own label LFO Editions, and now by the Japanese label mAtter. His work won numerous prizes and is presented worldwide on a regular basis like Festival Ars Electronica Linz 2021, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía 2020, EPFL Artlab 2018, ISEA 2018 Durban, ISEA 2017 Manizales Colombia, Red Bull Station São Paulo, Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica Rio de Janeiro, The Lab San Francisco, Festival Multiplicidade Rio de Janeiro, Presences Electroniques Festival Geneva, Biennale of São Paulo on the invitation of Sarah Washington and Knut Aufermann, Akademie der Künste Berlin, Miller Gallery Pittsburgh USA, MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts Rome, Rockbund Museum Shanghai, Swatch Art Peace Hotel Shanghai or House for Electronic Arts Basel.

He studied electroacoustic music with the Swiss composer Rainer Boesch in Geneva, and was produced, by Al Comet, a former member of The Young Gods. He conducted also his research at the INA/GRM in Paris, and he achieved a PhD in Sonic Arts in the UK with research about mental imagery and sonic architecture.