Name: music composition, fan clubs, and roller coasters
Start: 2023-06-22T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-06-22T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Chalmers Performance Space

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music composition, fan clubs, and roller coasters

Ever since Luke Nickel was a child, he has dreamt of creating roller coasters. Now, in his music composition practice, Luke has found countless ways to transform these speed machines into music, such as using simulated roller coasters as digital instruments or using footage of real roller coasters as video scores.

In this lunch-hour talk, Luke asks: what does it mean to be a fan of something, and how does being a fan of roller coasters relate to making chamber music? He will delve into the cringe-y-ness of fan culture, the power of fan objects to change history, and the challenges of creating a fan club chamber music performance.

To hear the world premiere of Luke’s “Leviathan Coasterclub” come out to 918 Bathurst for Thin Edge New Music Collective’s Reverb II”

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Luke Nickel (b. 1988) is an award-winning Canadian audio visual artist, virtual roller coaster designer and independent researcher currently living in Bristol, UK. Nickel’s work takes the form of experimental sound compositions, videos, simulated roller coasters and illustrations. His work knots together themes of memory, transcription, queer identity and gravity. He has collaborated with internationally-established soloists and chamber ensembles such as Mira Benjamin, Heather Roche, Quatuor Bozzini, and EXAUDI and shown work in festivals such as Sound Forms (Hong Kong) and the HCMF.About his work, scholar Jennie Gottschalk writes that “there is an unusual quality of rawness” (Experimental Music Since 1970).In addition to his artistic work, Nickel has received a Ph.D from Bath Spa University and actively publishes on topics such as orally-transmitted experimental music, Éliane Radigue and roller coasters. Nickel also co-founded and curated the Cluster: New Music + Integrated Arts Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada from 2010-2020.