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WACK is Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck. WACK is a duo of changeable meanings, flexible proportions, unpredictable semiotics, a pile of objects. WACK is an experiment in technological occultism, using arcane and modern sound recording technologies, voices, percussion, dreaming, telepathy, and mounds of texts to divine meanings, messages and narratives from the detritus of everyday informational noise. WACK invites the audience to dredge gnomic readings of real and artificial matter from new and old words, deep audio files and deeply personal belongings.
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Neil Luck is a musician based in the UK. His work takes a range of forms, from music theatre to concert works, radio, public projects and recordings, and he is the director of the experimental music-theatre group ARCO. Luck works with and writes for individuals, ensembles, and himself internationally.
“The most original compositional voice to emerge from Ireland in the past 20 years” (The Irish Times), composer and performer Jennifer Walshe was born in Dublin. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast and performed all over the world, and she has worked extensively with AI. A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance, her third solo album, uses AI to rework canonical works from early Western music history and was chosen as an album of the year in The Irish Times, The Wire and The Quietus. Walshe is professor of composition at the University of Oxford and has been profiled in The New Yorker.