Joseph Kohlmaier

Neil Luck

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Neil Luck, Sensible Activities. An Oblique to Eden Box, 2024. Spread showing Neil at work.

Neil Luck and Joseph Kohlmaier have collaborated on numerous projects, events, commissions and publications since 2011. Neil is a musician based in the UK whose work often explores the pathos and interaction between live human performance and multimedia, and attempts to frame the act of music making as something curious, or weird, or useful, or spectacular in and of itself. Neil’s work takes a range of forms from music-theatre, to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings. Neil is the founder and director of the music-theatre ensemble ARCO, and a co-founder of artist cooperative squib-box. He performs with artist Jennifer Walshe in the duo WACK. Independently, he has also worked with and written for people and ensembles in the UK and abroad, and presented work at music venues, festivals, and galleries internationally including Tate Britain, Tate Modern,  Venice Biennale, ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, MATA Festival (NYC), BBC Proms, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), in Vilnius and Aarhus Capital of Culture festivals, and Tokyo Experimental Festival. His music has been released on several labels including Entr'acte, Nonclassical, Accidental Records, and squib-box. Neil has been recent resident at Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), Mahler Lewitt studios (Spoleto, Italy), and at Kinosaki Arts Centre (Japan).

Last updated March 2026

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Residencies

  • Post Disaster Rooftops, Taranto (Italy), 10 March – 29 May 2022. With Neil Luck, Marie Hamilton, Sara Rodrigues, and Aga Beaupré.

Teaching Programmes and Workshops

  • Field Studies 2015, School of Art, Architecture and Design, 30 March – 2 April 2015. With Helen Frosi, Melanie Pappenheim, Stefan Kraus, David Toop, Ed McKeon, Helen Mallinson, Neil Luck, Adam de la Cour, and Iris Garrelfs.

Publications as Editor or Publisher

  • Neil Luck, Sensible Activities. An Oblique to Eden Box (London, Cours de Poétique and Accidental Records, 2024)
  • Neil Luck, Bloody Sirens (London, Entr’acte, 2018)

Projects with Musarc

  • Pfeiffertag. Musarc Folk Meet on a Midsummer Day until Dusk, St Paul’s Bow Common, 24 June 2023. With Jan Hendrickse, Neil Luck, Lin Chiwei, and Patricia Auchterlonie.
  • The End of the World Service. Musarc in the Land of Remorse, Post Disaster, Taranto, Italy, 27–29 May 2022. With Sara Rodrigues, Neil Luck, Aga Beaupré, and Mela Boev.
  • Musarc at BBC Proms with Neil Luck, Battersea Arts Centre, 27 June 2019. With Neil Luck.
  • ODRATHEK: How to Make Music in the Cthulucene, The Workshop SE1, 11–13 May 2018. With Rebecca Jagoe, Edka Jarząb, Jenny Moore, Célia Gondol, Benedict Drew, Jenna Sutela, Rie Nakajima, Volkmar Klien, Neil Luck, Esther Venrooij, Lore Lixenberg, Alex de Little, Sarah Kate Wilson, Claudia Molitor, Amina Abbas-Nazari, Amber Priestley, Karin Hasselberg, Heleen Van Haegenborgh, MORE: Collective, and Allon Kaye.
  • NO WAY. Musarc Winter Konsert, Christ Church Spitalfields, 16 December 2017. With Alex de Little, Jessica Smulders-Cohen, Jacopo Belloni, Orlando Gough, Neil Luck, and Stuart Mellor.
  • To Mill Two Queens, MK Gallery, 30 June 2017. With Sarah Kate Wilson, TONGUE, Neil Luck, Piper Haywood, Toby O’Connor, and Simon Wright (curator).
  • Do Disturb. Musarc at Palais de Tokyo, 21–23 April 2017. With Sam Belinfante, Ben Hadley, Neil Luck, Sarah Kate Wilson, and TONGUE.
  • Visually Similar Images: Musarc Winter Konsert, Truman Brewery, 16 December 2016. With Anton Lukoszevieze, Sarah Kate Wilson, and Neil Luck.
  • On Repetition: Musarc Folk Meet on a Midsummer Day until Dusk, Truman Brewery, 11 June 2016. With Neil Luck, Anton Lukoszevieze, and Lin Chiwei.
  • Drivetime Underground. With Neil Luck at ResonanceFM, 4 June 2016. With Neil Luck.
  • Musarc Christmas Concert 2015, St George’s Bloomsbury, 19 December 2015. With Pavel Büchler, Pselodux, Alex de Little, Neil Luck, and Claudia Molitor.
  • Musarc and Entr’acte present: Bloody Sirens, Extra City Antwerp, 15 October 2015. With Neil Luck and Allon Kaye.
  • Musarc Folk Meet on a Midsummer Day until Dusk I, The Round Chapel, 20 June 2015. With Melanie Pappenheim, Alex de Little, and Neil Luck.
  • How to Construct a Time Machine, MK Gallery, 21 March 2015. With Melanie Pappenheim, Neil Luck, Stefan Kraus, and Simon Wright (curator).
  • On Air II, 20 June 2013. With Neil Luck, Melanie Pappenheim, Hayley Newman, and Hannibal Andersen.
  • Chambers III, School of Art, Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University, 7 April 2011. With Neil Luck and Bob Harbison.
  • On Air, St Stephen Walbrook, 1 June 2010. With Neil Luck, Benjamin Oliver, and Tom Chant.