Luc Döbereiner

Luc Döbereiner is a composer, musician and researcher whose work explores the fragility, contingency and materiality of sound. Through his music, he investigates the entanglement of social, technological and compositional systems, investigating processes of sonic becoming, liminality and the relationality of sound. His work explores how meaning and identity are both dissolved and constituted in sound. Taking various forms, including collaborative and solo performances, fixed media works, and written scores for choirs, soloists, and ensembles, his music frequently incorporates adaptive generative processes and sound synthesis algorithms. Döbereiner views synthesis as a processual form of computational becoming, where perceptual forms emerge from material encounters. Influenced by a wide range of genres, including early experimental computer music, medieval and renaissance polyphony, noise, improvisation, and sound art, his music is characterized by continuously evolving forms, states of fragility, noise, and turbulence. Originally from Berlin, Luc Döbereiner has performed in experimental music venues across Europe. He has collaborated with ensembles such as LUX:NM, Eklekto Percussion, KNM, Schallfeld, AuditivVokal and Vertixe Sonora. He studied at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and holds a PhD from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. Alongside his creative work, he has taught at institutions including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, the University of the Arts Berlin, the Bern University of the Arts, and the Free University of Berlin. He has also been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield and the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz and served as a professor of AI in composition and sound synthesis at the University of Music Trossingen. Döbereiner is part of the duos End of Text together with Ludvig Elblaus and NOR together with Martin Lorenz.