His work grows from decades of research from the ground up into harmony, rhythm and sound synthesis through close listening and the development of his own compositional strategies in code. In his music, each element is selected from listening to hundreds of alternatives, in pursuit of a specific aesthetic and concentrated clarity.
His electroacoustic works are built from his own extensions to Xenakis's stochastic synthesis, developed in SuperCollider and C. He is the author of a widely cited article on Xenakis's stochastic synthesis published in Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press, 2009), and co-author of a chapter on stochastic algorithms for composition and non-standard synthesis in The SuperCollider Book (MIT Press, 2025).
Luque's works have been performed across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia, at venues and festivals including X100 (Iannis Xenakis centenary festival) at Kraftwerk in Berlin, Gaudeamus Muziekweek in Amsterdam, the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music in Australia, Stanford University's CCRMA and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. Performers include the Schönberg Ensemble, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and soloists such as Garth Knox and Dante Boon.
His awards include the Compass Composition Prize from the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Schönberg Ensemble's Max5 Chamber Music Composition Prize.
He lives in Madrid, where he directs the Master in Electroacoustic Composition at Centro Superior Katarina Gurska and curates the new music festival VANG at CentroCentro, Palacio de Cibeles. He is a regular workshop leader at the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
He holds a PhD in Musical Composition from the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Jonty Harrison and Scott Wilson; a Master's degree with Distinction in Sonology from the Institute of Sonology at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, where he studied with Paul Berg and Kees Tazelaar; and a Master's degree in Composition from the Conservatory of Rotterdam, where he studied with Klaas de Vries and René Uijlenhoet. In 2003 he studied with Klaus Huber at Centre Acanthes in France.
