Lukas Ligeti is a Brooklyn based musician composer who is trying to carve his own path while following in the footsteps of his father. He was born and raised in Vienna and attended an international high school which exposed him to many musical styles and instruments. However, Ligeti had a very limited early musical education, consisting primarily of private piano instruction at the age of nine. After high school he enrolled at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna as a classical percussion student. In 1998 he moved to New York where he found like minds in the multicultural experimental scene. He now lives in a loft in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Ligeti received a commission from the Goethe Institute and subsequently led a workshop in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. He helped found a playing ensemble called Beta Foly and then worked with the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. His composition technique is heavily inspired by African music, as was his Hungarian born father, although Ligeti junior admits to taking this even further. He relates to the story telling nature of African griots.
In 2005 he was a featured artist at the Unyazi Electronic Music Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. His performance included the use of the marimba lumina, which was designed by the American Engineer Don Buchla. He is currently working on a piece for solo violin with electronics with New York violinist Todd Reynolds. He is also working on a piece for solo marimba lumina, an electronic drum, commissioned by a consortium of American percussionists. He recently gave a one-man concert at a West Village club, Le Poisson Rouge. It was primarily a procession based performance and included the use of multicolored mallets and a marimba lumina. The music was a meshing of West African melodies and rhythms. The club is popular with tourists in New York who find their way to it from their 5 star New York hotels.
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