As part of The Forest residency events programme we present an evening of live music by musician-in-residence Luke Abbott. Luke has been at Wysing since 4 November, composing new work in response to the metaphor of The Forest.

Luke’s recent single Modern Driveway was a Drowned in Sound single of the week and his music has been remixed by the likes of Gold Panda and Etienne Jaumet. Join us for a special event on Saturday 1 December, 6-8pm, for a live performance from Luke and a DJ set by Sam Willis, one half of the electronic duo Walls. Writer-in-residence Patrick Coyle will also make a contribution to the evening.

Luke Abbott’s bleary-eyed efforts are that special thing; slow-builders that earn the right to their ambling pace. It seems to me his work is an exercise in patience rather than self-denial, though he isn’t one for cheap tricks, stateliness is the word, I think. ‘Modern Driveway’ however, is especially impressive in the way it has you thinking almost immediately of Coen Brothers' roads, or lights that sing hazily in the distance, that you want to pull towards you, by sheer will. All of which tortured prose indicates that I am a bit drunk on him – not least because I finally went to Holkham last weekend, and it was as rare, bleak and emptily beautiful as music that good, and named after it, should be. Wendy Roby, Drowned in Sound