LEWIS HENRY COOK
GLASGOW-BASED ARTIST, MUSICIAN, PRODUCER AND EDUCATOR
Lewis Cook is a Glasgow-based electronic musician and composer working across performance, recording and collaborative projects. He performs solo and as part of Free Love, and is co-director of the Glasgow Library of Synthesized Sound (GLOSS), a community-based electronic music space. His work spans live performance, installation contexts and participatory sound environments.
SELECTED WORKS
SOUND WORKS & RECORDINGS
Free Love
Inside – Lost Map Records, 2023
https://lostmap.bandcamp.com/album/inside
Love Is Love – 2021
https://freelovenrg.bandcamp.com/album/love-is-love
Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony Volume One – 2020
https://freelovenrg.bandcamp.com/album/full-ashram-devotional-ceremony-volume-one
Extreme Dance Anthems – Optimo Music, 2019
https://freelovenrg.bandcamp.com/album/extreme-dance-anthems
Luxury Hits – Full Ashram, 2018
https://freelovenrg.bandcamp.com/album/luxury-hits
Visitations – Lost Map Records project series
https://lostmap.bandcamp.com
Happy Meals
Full Ashram Devotional Ceremony (Volumes IV–VI) – So Low / Optimo Music, 2017
Fruit Juice – Night School Records, 2016
Apéro – Night School Records, 2014
https://freelovenrg.bandcamp.com/album/ap-ro-2
Solo & Alias Releases
Lugh – IMBOLC
Live performance recording, 2025
Lugas Europ – Horse Manure
Solo electronic release, 2025
Henri Claudel – Technopoly
Cassette, Singapore Sling Tapes, 2016
https://singaporeslingtapes.bandcamp.com/album/technopoly
The Cosmic Dead
Core member during the group’s formative touring and recording period.
Selected releases include:
Inner Sanctum – Evil Hoodoo Records, 2013
Easterfaust – Sound of Cobra, 2014
Live at the Trades – Was Ist Das?, 2014
Orbiting Salvation – 2013
Psych Is Dead – Riot Season, 2017
LIVE PERFORMANCE & DURATIONAL WORKS
Sleep Garden
Durational performance environment curated and hosted by Happy Meals.
12-hour programme combining live sound works, installation, food, rest space and participatory activities.
Kinning Park Complex, Glasgow.
FORM! Seasonal Gatherings
Recurring live compositions created for movement, meditation and ritual contexts in Glasgow.
IMBOLC
Live electronic performance presented as part of the FORM! DEEP REST programme, Glasgow, 2025.
COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCE / INSTALLATION
F.A.R.M. (Full Ashram Resonant Module)
Durational audio-visual performance installation combining live synthesis, tape process, voice and projection.
Collaboration with Suzi Cook and Kyalo Searle-Mbulu. Presented at Platform, Glasgow.
SELECTED PRODUCTION, REMIX & COMMISSIONED WORK
Patience – Night School Records
Producer and engineer on White of An Eye, The Pressure, Dizzy Spells and The Church.
Apostille – Night School Records
Producer on Prisoners of Love and Hate and Choose Life.
Django Django & Charlotte Gainsbourg – “Waking Up”
Remix and accompanying music video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI3Dqmvln7Y
VIDEO WORKS
Bottle Smashing – Prostitutes
Music video released via Diagonal Records
Director
Bones – Free Love
Music video
Director and editor
VISUAL ART & DESIGN
Cook has produced artwork, visual identity and design work for numerous musical and cultural projects, including:
Artwork and visual direction for Acid Waxa Records
Artwork for Solarophones release (Them There Records)
Artwork and visual identity for Happy Meals releases
Artwork and visual identity for Free Love releases
Visual identity, artwork and design for Glasgow Library of Synthesized Sound (GLOSS)
SELECTED FESTIVAL & TOURING PROGRAMMES
Free Love
Selected appearances include:
UK and European Tours supporting
The Flaming Lips, James Holden & The Animal Spirits, Liars
Glastonbury Festival – Beat Hotel stage; Pussy Parlour stage
Green Man Festival – Wales
Connect Festival – Edinburgh
Pop-Kultur Festival – Berlin
Valkhof Festival – Netherlands
Simple Things Festival – Bristol
Big City Festival – Glasgow
Alongside an ongoing UK and international touring programme.
Happy Meals
Selected appearances include:
IndieMarch Festival – Bangalore, India, 2016
Supersonic Festival – Birmingham
Incubate Festival – Netherlands
Bestival – UK
The Great Escape – Brighton
Alongside touring across the UK, Europe and internationally.
The Cosmic Dead
Extensive UK and European touring programme during the group’s formative period, including international tours associated with early releases.
CURATORIAL & ORGANISATIONAL PRACTICE
Cook is co-founder and director of the Glasgow Library of Synthesized Sound (GLOSS), the UK’s first artist-led, non-profit electronic music library. Through this work he develops workshops, recording programmes, performances and collaborative projects that expand access to instruments, studio practice and experimental sound.
