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Luca is a maker. Field recordings are his main source material and he combines different disciplines to draw stories, ideas and reflections on the environment we inhabit. He trained in classical music and visual art in Italy. He moved to London in 2006 and studied towards a BA(Hons) in Music and Performing Arts at the University of East London. He completed a MMus in Studio Composition at Goldsmiths College in 2012. He completed a PhD in Musical Composition at the University of Aberdeen in 2018.

‘Nasciuti’s swells and shimmers were imbued with a richness of timbre and concealed harmony, always in flux. The piece had that slightly Arabic quality that to me always sounds like magic, and assisted by a few carefully placed narrative elements (the sound of footsteps on gravel) it seemed of speak of an innocent curiosity, like a child in awe of the things most of us call mundane’. Sam Ludford - Live at Power Lunches

‘Luca Nasciuti’s beautiful palindromic soundscape, performed surrounded by large packing boxes recalled the electronic drone music of artists such as Jacob Kirkegaard and Ben Frost. However, Nasciuti’s source—the recorded silences of empty or deconsecrated churches—lent the piece a structural integrity all of its own. This is sound art of a distinctive character’. Jonathan Gilhooly - Live at Atomino Festival



Selected music performances



​12.05.2019 Caffeine Underground, NYC | 30.11.2018 Dronica Festival, The Old Church, London, UK | 22. 07. 2018 Cafe Oto, London, UK | 14.05.2017 Cafe Oto, London, UK | 28.08.2016 Glad Cafe, Glasgow, UK | 02.04.2016 Electric Nights, Athens, GR | 29.09.2015 Radical DB, Zaragoza, ES | 05.09.2015 Musica Dispersa, London, UK | 08.07.2015 Inter, Stereo Cafe Bar, Glasgow, UK | 20.05.2015 Raflost Festival, Reykjavik, IS | 12.04.2015 The Listening Club - St. John's Sessions, Peckham Pelican, London, UK | 05.03.2015 Timespan Museum, Helmsdale, UK | 01.03.2015 Soundscapism, Banshee Labyrinth, Edinburgh, UK | 14.06.2014 Felix Poetry festival, Antwerp, BE | 22.09.2013 Sonic Arts Waterford, IE | 06.06.2013 The Green Door Store, Brighton, UK | 06.12.2012 Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, UK | 09.07.2011 The Long Drone, Raven Row Gallery, London, UK | 23.20.2010 Hidden Door Festival, Edinburgh, UK | 28.09.2010 Atomino Art Festival, Chrimmitshau, DE | 09.07.2010 D21 Leipzig, DE | 03.07.2010 headphone Festival, Labsound Gallery, Vasternorrland, SE



COLLABORATIONS



2019 | Elsewhere - with choreographers Daniele Albanese and Eva Karczag

2019 | It's About Time - with Marysia Lewandowska

2018 | Cinema Island - with artist Marysia Lewandowska

2010 - 2017 | Filmpoem - with artist and film-maker Alastair Cook

​2017 | Comet Perfume - with film-maker Jack Friswell

2016 | VON - with choreographer Daniele Albanese

2013 | Ringing Forest - with artist Juan Delgado
2012 | Epoché - with choreographer Marie Brenneis
2012 | 13X2 - with choreographer Jessica Bravo-Pena
2011 | The Kingdom - with artist and choreographer Marie Brenneis
2010 | with Freefall Theatre, director: Kate Sagovsky
2009 | Feral - with Sketty Productions, director: Toby Clarke



selected dance PERFORMANCES



27.10.2019 - Elsewhere - Festival Exister, Milan, IT | 30.10.2019 - Elsewhere - Teatro Due, Parma, IT | 24,25.08.2018 VON solo - Festival Les Brigittines, Brussels, BE | 11-12.11.2017 - VON - Dock11, Berlin, DE | 16.09.2017 - VON - Torinodanza Festival, Turin, IT | 09.09.2017 - VON- Festival Ammutinamenti, Ravenna, IT | 24.02.2017 - VON - Festival Les Hivernales, Avignon, FR | 9.08.2012 - Epoché - Deptford Town Hall, London UK | 10.05.2011 - The Kingdom - Goldsmiths University of London, UK | 17.09.2010 - Ear Me Now, Netil House, London, UK | 09-11.09.2009 – Pandora - The Space, London, UK



SELECTED SCREENINGS



12-19.11.2018 Lift-Off Sessions, Online Streaming | 08-12.11.2017 Aesthetica Short Film festival, York, UK | 29-30.09.2017 - Mr Mov Festival Brescia, IT |19.07.2014 - Festival of Love, Poetry International with Poetry Society, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK | 11-14.06.2014 - Felix Poetry Festival, Antwerp, BE | 14-18.03.2012 - StAnza International Poetry Festival, St. Andrews, UK | 21-23.10.2011 - Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK | 04-12/24-28. 08.2011 - Not In My Name - Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scottish National Library, Edinburgh, UK



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS



14-19. 11. 2018 Abu Dhabi Artfair, UAE | 02.07-16-.07.2016 - Company, group show curated by Florida collective, Edinburgh, UK | 14.01-14.02.2014 - Jerwood Open Forest, Jerwood Space, London, UK - A/V exhibition with artist Juan Delgado, group show | 16.08-08.09.2013 - Suden Radio, Radio Papesse, Villa Romana, Florence, IT and Deustche Bank Kunstalle, Berlin, DE | 24-25.05.2013 - Spazio Ersetti, Udine, IT | 15-17.07.2011 - Hilltown New Music Festival, IE | 25.10-16.11. 2010 - Soundgate Festival, Aalborg, DK



Residencies



2017 - Barbican Creative Lab, London, UK - with film-maker Zeynep Dagli

2016 - RSPB Scotland

2016 - Teatro Petrella, Longiano, IT - with Daniele Albanese / Stalk dance
2015 - Fljotstunga Travel Farm, IS
2013 - North Light Arts, Dunbar, UK - Walking a Line, summer residency
2009 - Battersea Arts Centre, London, UK, and Oval House Theatre, London, UK - with Sketty Productions
2009 - Newington Dance Space, London, UK - durational performance with dance



workshops



29-30.09.2016 - Luminate. Bowden Park Centre, UK - Filmdom workshop

03.09.2016 - Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, UK - Soundwalk workshop

06.04.2015 - Timespan Museum, Helmsdale, UK – Soudwalk Workshop
04.10.2014 - Beacon Arts centre, Greenock, UK - Filmpoem Workshop
19.07.2014 - Southbank Centre, London, UK - Filmpoem Workshop
22.09.13 - Sonic Arts Waterford, Waterford, IE - Soundwalk Workshop
04.08.13 - Dunbar Town House, UK - Filmpoem Workshop
07-14.08.2009 - Newington Dance Space, London, UK - Performance Making Workshop



CONFERENCES



30.06.2017 - Sound + Environment, Hull, UK

27.11.2015 - Kinesis and Stasis, Barbican Centre, London, UK
05-07.04.2015 - True North Conference, Timespan Museum, Helmsdale, UK
24.10.2014 - Sonophilia, Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK
04-07.09.2013 - The Noises of Art: Audiovisual Practice in History, Theory and Culture, Aberystwyth University, in collaboration with The Courtauld Institute of Art London
12-15.03.2013 - Espacios Sonoros, 19th Computer and Electronic Music Days, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, ES



PublicationS



Current - Contributing writer, CLOT magazine

2014 - Deus Ex Machina, Filmpoem Album, Issue 149
2012 - CNPTN New Sound by Concept and Design, Issue 04



curating



Current - The Field Recording Show - Co-produced with Kate Carr

2015-2016 - Programming Committee Member, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK
2013 - Sonic cueB, experimental music festival, cueB Gallery, London, UK – Supported by Sound and Music, Heinrichsen
Foundation, and The Gane Trust
2012 - Silence and Noise, experimental music performance, Power Lunches, Dalston, London, UK



Teaching & Learning



Current - Toronto Metropolitan University in Cairo | Assistant Professor in Media

2022 - SAE London | Lecturer in Audio

2020-2021 - German University in Cairo | Lecturer in Media

2018 - 2020 - The National Gallery, London | Workshop facilitator

2019 - 2020 - Tate Modern & Tate Britain, London | Workshop facilitator

2018 - 2020 - Middlesex University | Visiting Lecturer in Music

​2015-2017 - University of Aberdeen | Visiting lecturer in Music