I first met Luke in 2008 after being introduced to his apparently now dormant musical project Dizzygiggles by a mutual friend. I gave him a copy of The Mishukis’ Everyone’s Too Stupid and he reciprocated by sending me a double-sided CD of his songs ingeniously fashioned from two CDs hand-glued together, with a personalised sleeve written on what appeared to be toilet paper. Since my old toploader died I can’t play it anymore, but it’s still a treasured possession.
Back then he was, like me, working in a market research callcentre; these days he’s studying Sound Art at RMIT. Last year he produced an audio collage intended to convey the ambiance of a football match which was played over the loudspeakers at the MCG as part of Sports Club 2: The Arena for Next Wave.
More recent projects include calculating the metrics of a bag of chips, painstakingly re-rendering page one of the September 12, 2001 edition of the New York Times at 8x life-size in colour pencil, producing an album of original sound pieces based on The Telegraph’s laughably pretentious track-by-track review of the new Radiohead album, etc, etc, etc, etc. His phone seems to be a fairly significant tool of his practice, which of course we like.