Dr Luke Print

Luke Print is a researcher, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist, and a tutor on the Leeds Junior Conservatoire Music Technology Course.

Luke's teaching work centres on facilitating students in finding their own means of integrating music technology into their practice and musical identity. For example, his theory of 'Universal Expressive Language’ encourages neurologically diverse groups of students to collaborate by identifying combinations of measurable physical phenomena, embodied senses, lived experience, and linguistic markers to create isomorphic nodal points of social reference together as a cohort.

In 2025 Luke completed a doctorate at the University of Huddersfield in education studies, specialising in neurodiversity and mental health. His research utilises quantum dynamics, systems theory, and neuroqueer theory to outline a neurologically domain specific philosophy of meaning making. The work focuses on the system of academia, the ethico-onto-epistemological performances of neurodivergent bodyminds within that system, and how these performances materialise knowledge. Luke’s genealogical approach considers the policies, mechanisms and apparatuses which produce the system of academia and the modern university. For example, the manner in which EDI, access and outreach, and teaching and assessment practices functionally account for the lived experience and innate modes of presentation of neurodivergent learners.

His previous post-graduate research specialisms include practice and performance in the context of disability, coding FM and physical modelling synthesis in Max MSP, human interfacing to convert live EEG readouts to audio visual installations, and experimental integrative compositional approaches to hardware synthesis and sampling.

Luke has worked as an active musician for over two decades, and began academic studies at Leeds Conservatoire in his late twenties. He has performed and toured internationally in bands and as an electronic artist, alongside studio based remixing and production work, and worked as a session bass player. Luke has been signed and released by several international labels, and in 2020 signed a publishing deal with EMI. He has run his own studio for over fifteen years, both in the UK and Melbourne Australia, and a record label with almost a hundred releases on the roster. After receiving funding support from the Artist Development Fund at the Conservatoire, he started a company in 2020 producing sample based VST instruments built from his personal collection of analogue and digital synthesisers. The library is installed in all of the Mac labs at the Conservatoire, and available for free download for all students and staff.