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Lukas Ligeti

Moving easily between avant-garde electronica and traditional African music, Vienna-born but New York-based composer and percussionist Lukas Ligeti wears many hats nowadays. Find out what makes this unique figure (and son of Gyorgy Ligeti of “2001: A Space Odyssey” fame) tick, as WNYC’s exclusive The New Americans Portrait series continues with a broad sampling of his styles, and with his confessions and insights into music-making.