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The more one immerses oneself in the recording, the more one comes to appreciate Forcucci’s attention to detail and how artfully he’s arranged the sounds – Textura Evoking an impending danger by means of his orotund heavy “voice” and his effect on sonic sphere which seems to be covered by a sort of camouflage mantle – ChainDLK The music generates feelings associated with the sense of loss and the act of creation, things that, usually, anticipate the rising of new times – Neural

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28.01.2023

NEW CD out on 21.03.2023

Terra is a composition for cello, percussions, live electronics, fragments, drifts, and territories.
Territorial sonic fragments were collected while drifting between Los Angeles, Recife, Beirut, and then reassembled here and there in no particular order.

21.12.2022

New paper, just out of the oven: In 2015, after having successfully passed my PhD, I was invited for an art & science residency named Scientific Delirium, Madness (!!!) in the Silicon Valley, by the Djerassi Foundation and Leonardo / ISATS. I spent one month in a beautiful landscape with the Pacific ocean on the horizon, and with very talented artists and scientists (13). During that time, I worked on a composition involving the body of a dancer as the sonic source, a sculpture inside a tree with a sculptor, and I developed the initial ideas for my very own lab, www.ubqtlab.org. Since then, the project, LASER NOMAD, has traveled over four continents. I finished a paper about the story of this project that can be find here, and it will be published later on print.

https://direct.mit.edu/leon/article-abstract/doi/10.1162/leon_a_02354/114426/LASER-Nomad-Roadmaps-for-Art-and-Science-Research?redirectedFrom=fulltext

12.12.2022

Back from ten days of research, concerts, talks and lecture in Japan where we welcomed the vinyl of THE ROOM ABOVE in collaboration with mAtter, a great project and it sounds fantastic ! You can order your copy here. We celebrated the release with a concert at the CUBE in TOKYO, with also a dance performance and incredible DJ’S sets all along the night.

27.10.2022

On my way to Yerevan in Armenia to work on a project about Fermentaton in the context of the Cyland festival. A site-specific project including a sound installation and a performance.

10.08.2022

After two years and counting of iatus, the field research starts again. Just arrived in Accra, and already building bridges for the continuation of a project started 12 years ago, and which occupied much of my time between southern Africa since 2015 and Brazil since 2008. Thanks to Pro Helvetia Johannesburg – Swiss Arts Council for the opportunity. Stay tuned ! picture Lorenzo Pusterla

01.06.2022

New records out https://matterlabel.bandcamp.com/album/the-room-above / Limited edition of 300 vinyls and digital / The Room Above was recorded in the church of the Helvetic Circle in Genoa, in the 2020 lockdown. I played the church’s organ in the present moment, with no score, over four consecutive days, possibly inspired by long sonic walks in the surrounding mountains and along the Ligurian coast. The intrinsic architectural sonic spatial identity of the building entered the recordings. The cumulation of sonic spaces – those initially present, those of field recordings, those of future concert venues, and those imagined by the listener – lead to a sonic moiré, a polyphony of spaces. Such a sonic moiré is the perception of several strata of spaces, as is comparable to the perception emerging from Marcel Duchamp’s rotoreliefs between the work and the perceiver, in a cinematic experience for the mind. It will be premiered in concert on June 15th/ 7.30pm at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona during ISEA (international Symposium of Electronic Arts) 2022.

13.05.2022

Next June 13th 15th 2022 at ISEA 2022 in Barcelona, we are presenting THE ROOM ABOVE, a multichannel electroacoustic piece. The organ of the Helvetic Circle’ church in Genoa was recorded, sampled and reworked with its resonances in the architectural space and leading to a sonic moiré, a polyphony of spaces. Also, an experimental laboratory work in cognitive sciences is combined with the concert in the performance space.

12.01.2022

Starting the year with an interview with musicologist Wioleta Zochowska for Elektramusic

19.10.2021

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03.06.2021

It is out ! Such a pleasure to publish my chapter (almost a book per se) in such a great context, with great authors. This is my second publication with Springer Press! The title, Sonic Imagination: Body, Visual Mental Imagery, and Nomadism, refers to practice-led research in a context of art & science and with an attempt to build a plural and non western vision by developing a nomadic lab.

https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030725068#aboutAuthors

02.03.2021

Super exciting panel on interdisciplinary practices in the arts at the New York University of Shanghai of Friday March 5 at 3.15pm CST (China Standard Time). The event is public and accessible through Zoom. Link below.

20.01.2021

New record out ! Ultra limited edition of 10

Vinyl with print on archival paper signed and numbered

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life moi
-Werner Herzog

De Rerum Natura emerges from field recordings in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest I recorded in November 2008 at the Mamori Art Lab. The environment is dense with sonorities; it absorbs and influences the beholder/listener while soundwalking, spotting locations or recording. The ears and the mind are fully dedicated to listening, leading to vivid mental imagery. The sonic does not carry its reality within itself but is comparable to a symbol that triggers ‘virtual’ reality in the mind of the listener.
The Amazon rainforest is so remote that one can concentrate only on the recording task with absolute dedication. The experience is so intense that the sounds become deeply engraved into one’s mind. The powerful images created by the sonic environment while recording and Deep Listening create the composer’s initial mental images. The final resulting imprint is the story told by the Amazonian space

22.11.2020

I am honored to be part of the Leonardo community https://www.leonardo.info/led/24 #deeplistening #sonicarts #mentalimagery #sonicarchitecture

17.11.2020

This week, I am part of the ELIA Biennale at the Zürich University of the Arts in Switzerland. ELIA is a globally connected European network that provides a dynamic platform for professional exchange and development in higher arts education https://elia-artschools.org/page/ELIABiennialHomepage

The artists-in-labs (AIL) program has a long history of bringing together artists from various disciplines with scientists from diverse research institutions. These cross-border and transdisciplinary collaborations are intended to engage opportunities that expand contemporary knowledges and artistic production.

#art #artist #science #swissartistsinlab #zhdk #switzerland #ubqtlab #lucaforcucci #artandscience #neuroscience #research

12.10.2020

New Collaboration with the French Label Elektramusic for the release of Bodyscape

The piece is part of the exhibition

curated by Francisco López / 14 October – 11 January 2021

29.06.2020

This week i should have been in New York for the electroacoustic music festival to present my piece Alerta! Well, I am not there but as many things went online, this festival too. So you can find the piece in the concert number 13

22.06.2020

In the Autumn of 2018, i was in the Nordeste of Brazil for research. At the Federal University of Bahia, we organised an art and science Laser Nomad art talk with Dr Paola Barreto and Dr Bárbara Carine . So great to find it transcribed here in the Metamorfose Journal ! A conversation between Science and Art: about epistemologies & poetical and political imaginations – Salvador,November 29, 2018. #artandscience #technology #poeticalandpoliticalimaginations #epistemologies #ufba #ihacdigital https://portalseer.ufba.br/index.php/metamorfose/issue/view/2021


26.01.2020

The piece Bodyscape is selected by Francisco Lopez to be presented at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid for the exhibition Audiosphere: Social Experimental Audio, Pre- and Post-Internet. It will be held from May 27th to September 14th with many other artists. I believe this is a milestone for sonic arts curation.

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05.01.2020

The track E from the album B(L)(E)(E)(N)DINGS is included within this excellent and important compilation on the syrphe label.

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24.10.2019

Curation of a pavilion for The Wrong Biennale

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29.09.2019

Finalist of the Luigi Russolo Prize 2019

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19.09.2019

New chapter published in Tanz der Dinge/Things that Dance

Johannes Birringer / Josephine Fenger (Hg.) Editors

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05.07.2019

Leonardo Laser Talks in Berlin on July 18 6.00pm / talking about dreams and realities

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06.05.2019

New series of podcasts from my project ubqtlab.org in collaboration with creative disturbances available here with the iconic Phill Niblock 


18.04.2019

New album is out (Bis) / Bodyscape

released on Glistening Examples Recordings (CD)

available as a beautiful limited signed and numbered edition of 10′ Dubplate and Print on archival paper

on my bandcamp site


07.03.2019

New Album is out ! B(L)(E)(E)(N)DINGS

available as a beautiful limited signed and numbered edition of 10′ Dubplate and Print on archival paper

on my bandcamp site


03.01.2019

New paper published on Organised Sounds at Cambrigde University Press.

Proprioception in Visual Mental Imagery of Spaces while Deep Listening


28.11.2018

8.11-17.12 During six weeks I am working on a research tour including concerts, talks and collaboration with Federal University of João Pessoa, Federal University of Pernambuco, and Federal University of Bahia.

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24.10.2018

30.10 -1.11 Presentation of lectures, workshop and concert about listening, nomadism, and visualization at University of California Riverside.


11.06.2018

During the last months, I worked on a new collaborative project named LASER Nomad with Leonardo/ISAST.  The first result is a conference and festival of electroacoustic music with the South African college of music at the university of Cape Town. June 18-20.


03.06.2018

Starting a 10 days tour in South Africa on June 14, from Kalashnikovv Gallery in Johannesburg to ISEA 2018 Durban.


09.05.2018

looks like my work is travelling more than me, and to places where I never been: while I am cosy in my Berliner studio, next month, my piece Blending (seas from south and north hemispheres) will be in Reykjavík.


09.04.2018

Music for Brainwaves is a performance involving EEG data, listening, architecture and embodiment. Paper published by Body, Space and Technology Journal.


21.03.2018

Two Poles, an electroacoustic piece blending waters from the South and North hemispheres during the Anotações Sonoras: Espaço, Pausa, Repetição Exhibition at oMuseum in Porto from March 23 to end of June.


06.03.2018

Voices from the Coalmine, an electroacoustic piece based on autism, will be presented within res·o·nant, a sound installation from Mischa Kuball, as a 60-second-long sound clip – so-called Skits at the Jewish Museum in Berlin from March 23 to Summer 2019.


01.03.2018

Two Poles is an electroacoustic piece that was presented at Gallery Nord in Berlin, it will be presented next Spring and Summer.


18.01.2018

The loop is closed with Bodyscape presented at EPFL Artlab. The research started in 2009 at the Brain Mind Institute with a residency.

20.10.2017

Awarded a six month residency in Berlin / Starting January 2018 for a new research


25.09.2017

Traveling to Bangalore from 05 to 12 october for a tailored TedX and I will be developing new projects with new partners. This is my first time in India !


03.08.2017

Keynote for the ISSTA International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology (ISSTA 2017). Dundalk / September 7-8


10.07.2017

Radio show recorded at Pan African Space Station – the sound of 21st century Afriglobalism. Cape Town / April 2017


23.06.2017

New paper Out now by yours truly (english, portuguese and spanish) on the French/Swiss Poet Blaise Cendrars in Brazil. Journal Pragmatize, n.12, 2017 “Leituras do mundo: formas de expressão criativas e comunicativas”, Latin American Journal of Cultural Studies / University Federal Fluminense / Brazil


22.06.2017

Talk for the 50th anniversary of Leonardo Journal / Rio de Janeiro / Brazil


11-18.06.2017

Performance and talk at ISEA 2017 / The international Symposia of Electronic Art Manizales / Colombia


05.05 – 05.06.2017

Performance / Exhibition / Research In Lofoten and Oslo (NOTAM)


04.04-04.05.2017

Research in Southern Africa (Mozambique, Swaziland and South Africa)


04.04.2017

New Album Release (limited tapes available)

Realities, appearing as multiple layers and folds in which memories, cognitions, perceptions are coined and ready to emerge.

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Luca Forcucci – The Waste Land (Cassette on Crónica)

How to root your field recordings symphony firmly in INA-GRM territory? Well, let’s start with the rumbles of a passing train, in homage to Bernard Parmegianni… Or, do we hear something different than carriages on tracks? Luc Forcucci’s The Waste Land navigates the thin line where aural realities and sonic distortions and manipulations are crossing, merging, converging. He plays tricks on the memory for sound(s); cognitions thereof and the perception of space and time by inviting the ear towards examination of familiarities, while – at the same time, even – layering these habitual aural surroundings with alien noises, crackling static and displaced or disembodied emergences in multiscapes of sounds.
Following the lead of the ‘Giants of the GRM’ Forcucci dives deep into the sound matter at hand. The composer was invited to produce a soundtrack for a documentary movie. But, he didn’t have any information as to the nature of the moving picture. Forcucci was only given around six minutes of field recording to work with. And that too came without any further context. Deep listening brought forth images which formed a mental movie for Forcucci. The Waste Land is his soundtrack for exactly that inner motion, aurally pictured.
Forcucci manages to project clear images out of the fogs of sounds he juxtaposes. With Voices from the Coal Mine he works the resonant properties of real, tactile spaces into recombinant virtual ‘rooms’, taking cues and inspiration from Alvin Lucier. The piece also ushers in vibrant and touching memories of the miners and their voices – stretched out, drowned out, purified to base resonances. The deep darkness of Forcucci’s sonic excavations brings to mind Pietro Riparbelli’s explorations of resonance and reverberations.
With the last work on the tape Forcucci’s ear bridges nature on the coast of Normandy (matter of factly recorded and presented like Chris Watson) and urban flâneur sound walking through the city of Paris (not unlike BJ Nilsen’s London work Eye of Microphone). Reporting and observation with Forcucci’s keen ear – again – questions the listener’s habitual modes of hearing verging on listening and therewith anchors itself firmly and with bravura in the formidable lineage of the INA-GRM. (SSK)
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March 12 2017

Concert at Spektrum / Berlin

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October 14 – December 4 2016

In residency in the Lofoten Islands. Preparing new projects for 2017…. and walking the walk… a lot.

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October 11 2016

Presenting recent works at Laser Zurich / sponsored by Leonardo the International Society for Arts, Sciences, and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST)


Outcomes of the one month scientific delirium madness 2.0 residency in San Francisco California, conducted from June to July 2015. Published in Leonardo Journal June 2016.


May 11 – July 2 2016

In Sao Paulo in residency at the Red Bull Station working on new projects and presenting work in Brazil until end of July.


April 18 – May 6 2016

In Olso developing work at NOTAM with support from Vandaler Residency


Interview for the Swiss Radio and a Swiss TV for Bodyscape.

Presented on January 22 2016 at Centre Dürrenmatt in Neuchâtel / Switzerland

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Interview in art / science America Bodyscape

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Projects developed in California during the Summer (July and August) 2015 at Djerassi Foundation with Leonardo Journal 

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Honoured to be part of this residency organised by Djerassi Foundation and Leonardo Journal. ‘Our admission panel has selected the 2015 residents from over 225 applicants.


L. Forcucci, 2014, A l’Ecoute du Bruit, In Barbanti R. and Mariétan P. (eds.) Sonorités 9 2015, Nimes: Champ Social Editions

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From the series ‘I can’t go Back to Yesterday Because I was a Different Person Then.’ Picture Published in Transnational Dialogues Journal / November 2014

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Touching the Audience Published in Proceedings of the Electroacoustic Music Studies Network Conference / Electroacoustic Music Beyond Performance / Berlin / Germany / June 2014

 Max Neuhaus, Listeners at Water Whistle III , St. Paul YMCA, 1972

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TRACES / 2014 / Digital Print on Archival Paper / ZKU Berlin / Germany / July 2014 ZKU_LucaForcucci_001


Capture d’écran 2013-02-27 à 03.46.40 Released on Subrosa records  1. Fog Horns 2. L’Ecume des Jours 3. Winds After 12 hours of flight and some sleep deprivation, I landed in San Francisco in Spring 2011. Because or thanks to my state of consciousness, a distinct and beautiful sound appeared. It took a while to understand if that was real or just my imagination: The sound of the fog horns. Later, after emerging from my own fog, I drove thru Big Sur to Los Angeles on the Highway one. The sound haunted me while driving and I quickly heard it again when back in San Francisco. I went closer to the horns, (sound) walked and recorded sonic material on the coast. The results are imaginary landscapes recombined as a road movie. The material was then composed in Berlin during the summer of 2012 at the studio of T.U. University in Berlin and at Atomic Baby studio, where turntables, scratch, cuts and echoplex (by Goo Le Gooster) and electronic cello (by Michael Kott) were added.

18.05.2020

Delighted to somehow start again. Next month, June 2, I will give a talk about my research linking sonic arts and neuroscience with Jo Wei, Curator, researcher, and founder of Pan Bio-art Studio. All welcome ! (It s online and safe)

16.03.2020

Alerta ! is a poem of the Brazilian author Oswald de Andrade about dictatorship during the 1960-1980’s in Brazil, resistance and love; the composition is a process based work: The poem told by the composer Jorge Antunes was recorded in Recife (Br); graphic scores were then given to a cellist (Noémy Braun), and a percussionist (Lucas Gonseth) in La Chaux-de-Fonds (CH); the resulting material was recorded and recombined, brought forward in Switzerland, in Portugal, in the USA, until its unknown final form.

02.03.2020

The recent compositions Alerta ! will be presented mid June at the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival 2020. The work is based on a poem from the Brazilian author Oswald de Andrade.