Lukas Hoevelmann-Koeper (Hövelmann-Köper) is a composer and doctoral researcher at the Royal College of Music in London, where he has been awarded an RCM scholarship. His PhD research, supervised by Dr. Haris Kittos and Prof. Robert Adlington, investigates music composition as a site of material transformation, challenging traditional models of creative agency through a rigorous philosophical and practice-based exploration of sonic materiality.

Departing from anthropocentric frameworks that position the composer as autonomous subject, his research develops a methodology that treats composition as an experimental interface between human and inhuman forces. Drawing on the philosophical approaches of Gilles Deleuze, Nick Land, Ray Brassier, and François Laruelle, his research explores composition as a process of material reconfiguration that exceeds human intentionality.

The practice-based component of his research comprises two complementary compositional investigations: one exploring computational systems as sites of material agency, emphasizing technological glitches and algorithmic unpredictability; the other tracing material flows and transformations in acoustic environments with minimal technological mediation.

Lukas’ compositions have received numerous awards and have been performed internationally by acclaimed orchestras and ensembles such as the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. Under the adjudication of Unsuk Chin, his orchestral piece ‘Quantum Vacuum’ won second prize at the prestigious Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in 2018. Other successes include awards at the German Music Competition (DMW), the Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition of the University of Graz, the Indonesian Orchestra and Ensemble Competition and others. From 2017 to 2018, Lukas was artist-in-residence at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai.