Luciana Peycere Parente

Doctoral Student

Luciana is a composer, performer, director and researcher. Her compositional work combines vocal and instrumental sounds with a creative and critical approach to technologies, unfolding across different art forms, namely instrumental theatre, contemporary opera and sound art. 2024 features performances of her work by Line Upon Line percussion at Winter Composer Festival (Austin) and by the ensemble Proxima Centauri at Festival MÀD (Bordeaux) as well as the exhibition of her sound installation The Listening Canvas at NIME (Utrecht).

She was a 2023 laureate resident at Cite des Arts Paris where she exhibited her sound installation Brève anti-histoire des sons trouvés. 2022 highlights include the performance of her multimedia opera Film Performance at Tête-à-Tête: The Opera festival (London), the performance of her work Dessus-dessous by Ensemble 2e2m at Music of the Americas (NY) and the award of an Innovation Grant by OperaHack (San Diego Opera, US).

She has presented her research at NIME 2024 in Utrecht including a paper in the Conference Proceedings, the RMA 150th Anniversary Conference, Darmstädter Ferienkurse Open Space, IRCAM Forum Workshops, RMA/BFE Research Students Conference, JJCAAS, and Beckett in Central Europe Conference upon which she contributed an article for the upcoming issue of the journal Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd‘hui.

Her teaching activity recently took place at London College of Communication (UAL), Elephant and Castle’s Community Music Ensemble, the School of Creative Technologies (UoP), the Outreach department of the Festival d’Aix (France), Trinity Laban’s Learning and Participation department and the MA Music Theatre at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London).

Luciana is a doctoral student in Composition at the Royal College of Music. Her practice-based research looks at applying new materialists methodologies to compositional practices to devise creative participation as well as interactions with technologies, which aims at developing new ways to make meaning with sound. In 2020, she obtained a MA in Composition and Theory from Bern University of the Arts (Switzerland).

Faculties / departments: Research