Luka T. Zagoričnik

Born on 12th of May 1975, Kranj, Slovenia. For more than 18 years Luka Zagoričnik has been writing about music, organising concerts, sound events, giving and organising lectures home and abroad, preparing radio shows, moderating TV shows, working as a journalist, writing reviews, articles and essays for various Slovene and foreign magazines and publications.

For more than 15 years he has been working for one of the oldest independent radio stations in Europe, Radio Študent, where he has been also musical editor for 5 years. He is currently editor of internet based music magazine Odzven, which is part of Slovene music information centre SIGIC.

He has been writing for musical monthly magazine Muska, for biggest Slovene newspaper Delo and weekly magazine Mladina among others.

For many years he has been working as a moderator, journalist and music critic for national Slovene television RTV Slovenija and for six years he organized lectures and sound events of contemporary experimental music and sound art in a sound series Bitshift in Galerija Kapelica in Ljubljana. He co-ran a show about experimental and contemporary classical music ‘Glasni novi svet on III. program of Slovene national radio- Program ARS and a show of experimental music ‘Godbeni Imperializem’ on independent radio station Radio Študent. I

n 2015 he curated cd of Slovene experimental music ‘Experiment Slovenija’ for SIGIC. He is also one of the curators of festival Sonica and series of sound art exhibitions, sound performances, symposiums at cultural organisation MoTA- Museum for Transitory Art in Ljubljana and abroad (Wroclaw, London, Venice, Trieste, Berlin, …). The organisation is dedicated to research and presentation of contemporary art practicies from the fields of installations, performances, audio-visual and multimedia arts and is part of international network of festivals SHAPE.

He has been running independent label for experimental music L’Innomable since 2005 with more than 20 releases of international artists and organizing concerts in Ljubljana.

As a freelancer he lectures regular on topics of experimental music, free improvisation, sound art, contemporary art and sound theory. He had given lectures in Slovenia, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovakia. Most recently he edits bilingual internet magazine for improvised music Centralala.si.