Luca Manning (aka LuLuLu) invites you to submerge in her co-created ecosystem of sound.

Exploring sound as an embodied force is pretty much the underlying pulse of what I love to do.

I feel deep within a period of transition in my life at the moment ; and so I resist the agony of fossilising my experience whilst still growing (a reference for any other girlies who enjoy having their heart ripped to shreds by Anaïs Nin’s diaries).

At the moment I make bleepy bloop music, sound design on a range of collaborative projects, sing medieval chant with Idrisi Ensemble, attempt to speak Gàidhlig and enjoy cooking yum food.

I was born and grew up in Glasgow, Scotland. I feel very fortunate to have been brought up in an environment where music was celebrated (I have a vivid memory of my mum coaxing me in to spending my pocket money on Björk's debut record when I was young) and my granny paid for me to get piano lessons from a young age. In my teens, I discovered Jazz and immersed myself in this tradition which led my move to London to study a jazz degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. 11 months ago, I opened up the daunting grayscale world of Ableton and took a step into the unknown in which I have not yet looked back. I like to explore the sensorial wonder of sound ;  bringing together the corporeal resonance of the human voice and the otherworldly atmospheres evoked through processing and experimentation. Working in improvisatory processes with extended technologies allows me to sing in abstract registers and express the ineffable without being pulled into didacticism. Working in sound allows me to stay with the trouble, to sit deep within organic chaos, connection, awe and agitation. I take inspiration from many places…everything from little mushrooms growing in the ground to the incredible artists that surround and inspire me. I am fascinated by the idea of change as a granular process of messy multidirectional decomposition, remoulding and reshaping ; like clouds quietly shapeshifting above us… I think about all the ways in which this manifests in my own transitions and how change is so deeply needed in the world today… I use a lot of granular synthesis in my music… often noting that I feel at home in states of flux. I am interested in the potentials held in sound to rewild our imaginations.

Right now feels like the beginning of a long and perhaps never-ending journey of experimenting, learning, playing and this fills me with wonder.