JOHN DUNCAN

JOHN DUNCAN was born in the United States, currently lives and works in Bologna. His audio releases The Crackling (1996 with Max Springer), Tap Internal (2000), Palace of Mind (2001 with Giuliana Stefani), Fresh (2002 with Zeitkratzer), The Keening Towers (2003), Phantom Broadcast (2004) and Nine Suggestions (2005 with Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen) are all considered by critics and composers alike to be benchmarks in the field of experimental sound and contemporary music.

Duncan's events and installations have recently been held at O'Artoteca in Milano, The Atlantic Waves festival in London, Palazzo Appiani for PX2 in Piombino, the IPCA Ecomuseum for Eco e Narciso in the province of Turin, Villa Delle Rose in Bologna, MUTEK in Montreal, The Compound in San Francisco, Teatro Piccolo Jovinelli in Rome, the NoorlandsOperan in Umeå, Fylkingen in Stockholm, the Watari Museum of Art in Tokyo, Galleria Nicola Fornello in Prato, the 2003 Gothenburg Biennial, and Quarter in Florence. His work in performance has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Osterreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona (MACBA); and Museum of Tokyo (MOT).

Duncan participated in the first Activating The Medium festival in 1998, and published his collaboration with CM von Hausswolff entitled Our Telluric Conversation through 23five in 2006.

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