Luke Nickel is an award-winning Canadian interdisciplinary artist, composer and researcher currently living in Berlin. His works knot together themes of memory, transcription, translation, queer identity, technology and impossible roller coasters. In addition to orally transmitted music compositions, he creates traditionally notated musical works, audio-visual performances, installations, videos, texts and techno. He has created work with internationally established soloists and chamber ensembles such as Mira Benjamin, Zubin Kanga, Quatuor Bozzini and EXAUDI. About his work, Jennie Gottschalk writes: “… there is an unusual quality of rawness. The players are participating in an oral, folkloric tradition without any sense of irony or flippancy” (Experimental Music Since 1970).
As of: December 2025