Michael Lukaszuk

Canada °1989
research interests: computer music, new media art, Algorithmic Composition, post-digital, Instrumentality
affiliation: University of New Brunswick
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Michael Lukaszuk is an artist and researcher with interests in computer music, improvisation and exploring algorithmic media in culture. He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen's University and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. In 2024/2025 he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in New Media Art at Umeå University, and he currently serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor in Music at The University of New Brunswick (Fredericton, Canada).

His music has been repeatedly presented at events such as The International Computer Music Conference and The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and has received awards from organizations such as the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (Jeu de Temps Awards) and the SOCAN Foundation (Hugh Le Caine Awards). His research can be found in journals of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society, the Canadian Electroacoustic Community and the Australasian Computer Music Association, along with multiple proceedings of the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA).

 

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  • Strumming Bit Strings: Exploring Digital Instrumentality and Liveness in Electroacoustic Music through the Transformation of Guitar Sounds (2025) author(s): Michael Lukaszuk published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition explores how different technologically mediated presentations of guitar sounds work as materials to form an acousmatic electroacoustic composition. By juxtaposing processed guitar recordings with computer-generated realizations of guitar sounds, this work considers how composition can be used to engage with changing interpretations of instrumentality and liveness that stem from new music technologies. This includes the notion that such concepts can be an integral part of a sound work that uses fixed media. Here, listening to the boundaries between real and virtual guitars is more than just a technical feature. It informs stylistic choices and references different genre trajectories in electroacoustic music. The featured piece, "Obsession", is used to discuss changing approaches to dealing with the abstraction of source material, hybridization, and algorithmic procedures as aspects of acousmatic music. Additionally, the piece serves as an investigation of the guitar as a unique electroacoustic instrument. Download Accessible PDF
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