Adam Łukawski

I am a music composer and computer programmer, working and innovating at the nexus of computer-assisted music composition and posthuman artistic research. My work, deeply engaged with aleatoric and generative methods, explores the integration of AI and blockchain technologies for creating novel compositional frameworks and enhancing musical interactivity.

I am a doctoral fellow in the MetamusicX research group at the Orpheus Institute in Ghent, Belgium and a PhD candidate at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts of Leiden University, The Netherlands. As part of my work in these positions, I am developing a concept of 'Performative Transactions', describing a new technologically-oriented method for composing agential systems (posthumanist agential assemblages) in music with the use of Artificial Intelligence and blockchain technologies. As a lecturer, I participate in numerous international scientific and artistic events. My course Posthuman Creativity Labs: Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain in Music has now been successfully taught in various forms at several music institutions, including Conservatorium van Amsterdam, Iceland University of the Arts, and others. I co-edited (with Paulo de Assis) a book Decentralized Music: Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research (CRC Press / Taylor & Francis). Besides working on musical scores for acoustic, electro-acoustic and electronic setups of musicians, I am also experimenting with novel forms of music expression, for example in developing music software, or in the form of blockchain-based generative music NFTs.

I studied music composition at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and at Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London, with Julian Anderson, Richard Ayres, and Willem Jeths. I wrote works for ensembles including Exaudi Vocal Ensemble (click here to listen to their release of my "Hypnagogia" by Donemus Records), Maat Saxophone Quartet, Score Collective, and often collaborated in an interdisciplinary context with graphic artists, dancers, choreographers and theatre directors. Some of my works are published by Donemus Publishing in The Hague and were programmed for The Dutch National Opera & Ballet in Amsterdam (Opera Forward Festival), Muziekgebouw aan't IJ in Amsterdam, Splendor Amsterdam (Gesti Festival), Muziekhuis in Utrecht (Gaudeamus Festival), Concert Hall of The Polish Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Warsaw (In Modo di Lutosławski), Barbican Milton Court in London, London Contemporary Dance School (The Place), Ehrbar Hall in Vienna.

As a computer programmer, I gained experience working for several start-ups and at the Polish Information Processing Society.

Recent work:

Together with Martin Zeilinger, we are currently working on convening a conference Decentralised Creativity and Agential Systems in Music to be held at Orpheus Institute, Ghent on 17-18 November 2025, including keynote speakers: Timothy Morton (Rice University), Artemi-Maria Gioti (Mozarteum University), Victoria Ivanova and Eva Jäger (Serpentine Galleries), Primavera De Filippi (CRNS Paris and Harvard University). Read more about the conference here (click). The call for submissions is now closed, registration for participants will open at the end of August 2025.

Also recently, I was commissioned by Festival Chamber Music at Lundsgaard to write a new work for piano and strings with the use of Artificial Intelligence tools, which will be premiered on August 7th 2025 in Lundsgaard, Kerteminde, Denmark. The work is titled Ani(mate) and will be performed by the members of Trio Con Brio Copenhagen, Marmen Quartet, Enrico Pace, Hélène Clément, Michael Germer, Andrej Bielow, and Jonathan Swensen. The second performance will take place on August 12th 2025 at Mogens Dahl Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark.