Curd Duca

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Curd Duca (born March 14, 1955 ) is an Austrian musician, composer and producer of electronic music. From 1982 to 1991 he played in the music groups "Even if it sounds strange", "8 OR 9" and "Skin" (accordion, guitar, vocals and percussion). Since 1992 he has been working mainly on solo projects using electronic means (synthesizers, computers).

Working method

Curd Duca works primarily with samples - digitized sound material that he changes, cuts and “re-contextualizes” (“cut-up artist” - Spin Magazine). Analog sources such as natural instruments, orchestras, language, noises and bird calls serve as the starting point. The edits on the computer are mostly not changes in the sound, but manipulations of the time level - originally through loops, later mainly through cuts and manual improvisations with parameters of "granular synthesis" .

Publications

  • easy listening 1
  • easy listening 2
  • easy listening 3
  • easy listening 4
  • easy listening 5 (LP, CD Normal, Bonn 1992–1997)
  • switched-on wagner - "Richard Wagner compositions transformed beyond recognition" (CD Mille Plateaux , Frankfurt 1996)
  • elevator 1
  • elevator 2 (vocals: Carin Feldschmid)
  • elevator 3 (vocals: Carin Feldschmid) (LP, CD Mille Plateaux, Frankfurt 1998–2000). The subtitle of this album gave its name to an electronics festival: "digital analog"

Compilations

  • Modulation & Transformation 3 and 4 (Mille Plateaux)
  • Clicks & Cuts (Mille Plateaux)
  • The Wire Tapper 5 (Wire Magazine, London)
  • The Eclectic Sound Of Vienna 2 (Spray)
  • Mind The Gap vol 20 (Gonzo Circus)
  • In memoriam - Max Brand (CD rhiz)

Reviews

de-bug (Berlin), spex, Die Zeit (Hamburg), skug, Der Standard (Vienna), The Wire (London), actuel, nova (F), Spin, CMJ (USA), Zürcher Tagesanzeiger (CH), Wired (Japan), et al

Solo concerts

Duca gave various solo concerts, a. a. in Vienna (rhiz, flex), Berlin (Volksbühne / Roter Salon), Munich (ultrasound), Zurich (Rote Fabrik), London (sprawl), Barcelona (Sonar), ACNY New York, Miami (MLP) and at the Donaueschinger Musiktage .

Miscellaneous

  • Music for films: Red ears tear through ashes (Scheirl, Pürrer, Schipek, world premiere 1990 in New York), The Subversion Agency (Mark Boswell, 2004), etc. a.
  • ORF Kunstradio: "voices / cut-up hitler" (1998), "netz / sprache" (1999, with Armin Medosch)
  • Music for exhibitions: telepolis (Luxembourg, 1995), installation Hedy Lamarr (ars electronica, 1998), “Dark Matter” by Eva Grubinger in “baltic”, Gateshead, GB (2003), videos by Ingeborg Strobl (2007).
  • Teaching assignments and lectures (“digital poetry”) at the School for Poetry (sfd), Vienna.

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Die Zeit - Review elevator 2
  2. ↑ Die Zeit - Review elevator 3
  3. ^ Donaueschinger Musiktage 2016 - Composers
personal data
SURNAME Duca, Curd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician, composer and producer of electronic music
DATE OF BIRTH March 14, 1955