Luca Forcucci is an artist, composer and wanderer.
He focuses on improvisation, sonic in the arts, perception. This includes numerous music compositions and collaborations with musicians, dancers, and poets. His interest relates to live electronic improvisation, electroacoustic music, experimental and audiovisual projects. His portfolio focuses on large scale sonic and visual installations, and long-term collaboration with neuroscience to investigate mental imageries triggered by his work. His research involves, too, transcultural dialogues through field work in Southern and Western Africa, and Brazil for the combination of ancestral technologies and knowledge with contemporary ones.
His work is regularly presented in well regarded contexts like
Akademie der Künste Berlin 2024, New York Experimental Intermedia Festival 2023 (on the invitation of Phill Niblock), Cyfest Festival 2022 Yerevan, International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2022 Barcelona, Ars Electronica 2021, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival 2020, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo Palermo 2019, ISEA 2018 Durban, Festival Ciclo de Música Contemporânea Salvador de Bahia 2018, ISEA 2017 Manizales, Municipal Art Center Hélio Oiticica Rio de Janeiro 2016, Festival Multiplicidade Rio de Janeiro 2016, The Lab San Francisco 2015, MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts Rome 2014, Shanghai RockBund Museum 2012, House of Electronic Arts Basel 2012, Palais de Tokyo Paris 2010.
Luca Forcucci achieved a PhD in Music, Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University in the UK, and a MA in Sonic Arts from Queens University of Belfast. Forcucci’s background includes architecture and neuroscience. He conducted his research at Radio France GRM/INA in Paris, TU Electronic Music Studio Berlin, NOTAM in Oslo, Brain Mind Institute in Lausanne. He studied electroacoustic music with Swiss composer Rainer Boesch. Al Comet, former member of The Young Gods, produced his early work. He went to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil and the Limpopo Region in South Africa for field recordings with biologist and composer Francisco López.
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