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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 is the founder and director of the experimental music ensemble ARCO.

Eden Box is an album of songs, dances and vérité recordings written and produced largely on the edge of a South German forest. They all play with the process of mediating, editing, and reframing raw acoustic materials, many of which were captured outside and on the hoof. The album title is a reference to the 20th century British artist of the same name (well, their pseudonym) whose naive style brought together ideas of nature, man’s place with it, and christian iconography into strange symbolist compositions.

Additional performers and collaborators:
Binghi (Isheja Cheryl), Adam de la Cour, Monika Czyżyk, Margaret Luck, Chihiro Ono, Benedict Taylor, Athina Vahla.

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Written, recorded, and produced by Neil Luck. Mastered by Simon Davey at The Exchange. CD artwork Kapha by Monika Czyżyk. Book and case design by Joseph Kohlmaier at Cours de Poétique. Recorded and produced at Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart, EMS Stockholm, Colourscape Clapham, at home in London, and in the woods of Tonbridge.

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Sensible Activities is an essay, and an illustrated book of musical-sensory exercises to be enacted alone or in groups, outdoors. They all relate to an ongoing live project of Neil’s that has manifested as a series of walks and excursions with willing participants and musicians in various countries around the world.

Several of these activities link directly with particular tracks on Eden Box; track 2 features a prototype activity offered by Athina Vahla during a nighttime walk just outside Stuttgart. Track 3 is a demonstration of leaf blowing (p. 34), and track 6 is an encrusted recording of Neil’s ensemble ARCO testing "Internal Snore Monologue" (p. 20). There are many more indirect and abstract connections, and we consider this CD and book part of the same body of work. It is all, in the end, music.

​Produced and published by Cours de Poétique, whose Extended Scores series responds to the embodied, interdisciplinary, and discursive nature of contemporary music and performance practice by combining essays, documentary material, sound, and moving image with working scores in print and online.

Each copy of Sensible Activities includes access to documentation of the original performances, audio and video content, drawings, and bonus material, and a digital copy of Eden Box.

Eden Box / Sensible Activities is an album and book co-publication by Neil Luck. It is released by and produced in collaboration with Accidental Records and Cours de Poétique. It brings together a body of work from the last two years, broadly exploring contemporary, personal, and mediated ideas around the “pastoral” and the “folkloric”, that has manifested in music, performance, writings, radio, and images. It is then an album, a score, a document, an essay, an archive, an object.

Phantom Circuit is a show of strange and wonderful sound waves - featuring music that is alien, electronic, exotic, essential.

This time, the focus is on stoner rock, or variations thereof, that explore misty night-time moods. Featuring music by Sleep, Melvins and Earth.

Come On, Come Down! explores adventurous night music for the sleepless. The series covers a broad spectrum of genres, from ambient and noise through to jazz, post-rock and contemporary classical. Each episode is thematically linked and aims to highlight a specific mood, artist or movement. Listen out for the occasional live session.

This episode is dedicated to academic Soviet music, its avant-garde and national currents. You will hear some stunning works by Russia's major experimental composers – Sofia Gubaidulina, Galina Ustvolskaya, Faraj Karayev and Alfred Schnittke.

Almost half of the programme, however, is dedicated to music with an equally complex narrative by composers from Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, digitised from rare LPs from my own collection. The programme concludes with an intricate and exotic late-Soviet piece by Siberian composer Boris Mourashkin, which he characterises as ‘bio-energetic’.

Uzbekistan-based DJ and boss of the experimental TOPOT label Eugenie Galochkin presents rare vinyl rips from the Soviet Melodia label. Melodia has released music from all around the world: from obscure Baltic electronica and free jazz from Siberia; to synth-pop from Tajikistan and academic avant-garde from Ukraine. The series will explore how national and cultural characteristics are embedded in musical language.

A selection of new experimental music and sound work from the international underground network Unexplained Sounds, curated by Raffaele Pezzella (Sonologyst).

A circumambulatory attunement to the River Lea where it rises amidst chalk fields. Leagrave to the south-east and Marsh Farm to the west. Beneath unfurling clouds, horses graze the long grass growing atop Waulud's Bank, a neolithic earthwork reverberating with ongoing community.

We follow the river along the glacial ridge and Icknield Way, past Linbury Meads and water meadows on into Luton before returning once more to the river's source.

In both live performance and a monthly broadcast Littoral Transmissions evoke estuarine, marshland, boggy sonic impressions with an extended focus on our local River Lea as it passes through London.

This piece finds us in contrary flow, with an extended meditation on the Lea's emergence and its co-minglings of land and water, featuring field recordings and improvisations made in situ, combined with later responses recorded downstream.

Littoral Transmissions meander through the sonic landscape of the River Lea from Stonebridge Lock to Leamouth. Recordings from the field converge with layers of sound to create an aural impression of the navigation.

Featuring:

Steffan Cennydd (Theatr Cymru’s “Romeo a Juliet” 2025; Criminal Record; Gwledd; Craith; Yr Amgueddfa etc).

Richard James (Evolution of Beauty; Hotel Et Al; Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci; BAFTA Cymru and Welsh Music Prize Nominee etc).

Michael Umney (Winner, New York Festivals Radio Awards 2025; Winner, URTI Radio Grand Prix 2024
etc).

Ed Baxter (Resonance Radio Orchestra; Statue of Liberty Big Band; BASCA Composer of the Year 2013 etc).

Special guests include members of Tai Haf Heb Drigolyn.

Supported by The Colwinston Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation, The Leche Trust and Unity Theatre Trust.

Live from The Hanging Gardens, Llanidloes, Wales: Rough for Radio, an evening of radio-art, presented by Resonance FM. In this unique show, four artists present radiophonic experimentation, dramatic monologues, cinema for the ear and short-form sound art. They also present roughs from their work in progress, “Rhwng dwy afon: Taith i feddwl y tir / Between two rivers: a journey into the mind of the land,” made with local people around the sources of the Severn and Wye.

An immersive psychosonic space, where sounds converse, collide and converge, featuring works, selections, edits, experiments, new music, non-music, archival objects, abstract artefacts, sound(system) and A/V art, pop, trash, noise, voice, and the associated mediums, processes and techniques that make up the ongoing audial investigations of Agents of the Culture Industry & OVT, all presented for art not profit.

Ambient, folk, ritual, electronic, dub, free jazz and exploratory works selected by BroodingSideOfMadness.