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John Duncan

	artista : John Duncan - Kontakt Der Jünglinge - CM von Hausswolff
	titolo : -
	etichetta : Die Stadt
	formato : CD
	packaging : plastic sleeve
	cod. nr. ds104
		2007
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A compilation of live recordings specially released for a Die Stadt label night feat. All artists, at ARGOS in Brussels on 18. October 2007. The John Duncan recording was made at The Compound , San Francisco on 21 July 2007. Kontakt der Junglinge (Asmus Tietchens & Thomas Koner) 'Montreal Solution 1' is an excerpt from their live performance at Mutek Festival, Montreal on 28 May, 2003. The final track on this CD is by C.M. Von Hausswolff and was recorded at 'Easy To Swallow', All Tomorrows Parties, SEOne Club, London, cursted by Russel Haswell, on 2 June 2005. Released in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies.

Track listing:
1. JOHN DUNCAN »Live at the Compound« 24'25
2. KONTAKT DER JUNGLINGE »Montreal Solution 1« 18'45
3. C.M. VON HAUSSWOLFF »Circulating Over Square Waters (Framed Nature)« 15'15
Total playing time: 58'25

Prezzo : € 16,50

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	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : Work 1975-2005
	etichetta : Errant Bodies Press
	formato : book + CD

	cod. nr. ebp 0-9772594-2-0
		2006
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Contributions by Daniela Cascella, Leif Elggren, Cosey Fanni-Tutti, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Mike Kelley, Brandon LaBelle, Paul McCarthy, Tom Recchion, Takuya Sakaguchi, Giuliana Stefani.
102 pp w/full color and b/w plates, many published for the first time.
Design by Marco Brollo (Stun Shelter).
Audio CD of early to recent solo tracks long out of print:
CREED
RIOT
TRINITY
CRUCIBLE
THE GOSSAMER DISPATCH
Over the last 25 years John Duncan has defined himself as an artist through unceasingly engaging and often challenging projects. From his days in Los Angeles working within the performance cultures of the late-70s, to periods spent in Japan and Amsterdam working with experimental sound, film, and radio, to his current residence in Italy, Duncan's practice has matured into multi-media installations and performances. Investigative and probing, the artist's works have been continually at the forefront of experimental cultures gravitating around noise music, and lend greatly to defining in what way sound may speak toward extreme physical experience while rendering often surprisingly beautiful depictions. As the contributions to this monograph testify, Duncan's art has the ability to enthral and terrify. Spanning his career, John Duncan documents many important projects, seeking to represent through a critical and intimate portrait of the artist his uncompromising work.
Monograph with selected artworks, audio, installations and performances from John Duncan's periods of work in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Amsterdam and Scrutto di San Leonardo, Italy. Descriptions of Duncan's most significant events, illustrated with photos and drawings, many of which will be published for the first time.

Prezzo : € 21,75

	artista : John Duncan & Carl Michael von Hausswolff
	titolo : Our Telluric Conversation
	etichetta : 23five
	formato : CD
	packaging : cd+booklet
	cod. nr. 23five008
		2006
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23five Incorporated proudly presents Our Telluric Conversation -- the second collaborative album from John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff. This is an album which Duncan describes as having been galvanized by magnetism. In a semantic sleight of hand, Duncan and Hausswolff reveal magnetism through a duality of meanings. One on hand, they speak of the physical phenomenon of charged objects that exert an attraction or repulsion upon other objects; yet on the other, magnetism can be defined the psychological influence wielded by charismatic individuals. Our Telluric Conversation maps out the complexities that emerged through the collaborative pursuits of these venerated sound artists.
The tools that the two employed for Our Telluric Conversation are common to their respective catalogues of recordings, with Duncan bringing his shortwave, data streams, and uncanny use of the human voice while Hausswolff employed oscillators, sonar, and wire tapping microphones. The album opens with the mechanical rotation of modulated sonar, providing a hypnotic pulse which slowly submits to an obstinate surge of rumbling noise, that in turn collapses into focused white-noise turbulence and tone-bent SSB transmissions. All of this abruptly detours with a protracted spoken narrative from Hausswolff who whispers a Pynchonesque text about a maggot-infested individual who seeks to remedy his affliction by communing with cobras and geckoes. Afterwards, Duncan and Hausswolff entertain the seduction of the long-form drone constructions; however, their sublime minimalism is so brilliant in its beauty as to be piercingly acute through the purity of honed sinewaves. The final entry from their Conversation is the perfect marriage of the established Duncan and Hausswolff aesthetics, with a spare low-frequency hum deadening the sonic architecture before a static charge of crackled ether supplements the auditory smoldering.
Our Telluric Conversation stands as a bold, expressive piece of sound art, confident in its multiplicity of perspectives caught in a constant flux of attraction and repulsion. The recording comes with a 40 page booklet with an interview between Duncan and Hausswolff about their histories, ideas, and methodologies; furthermore, the packaging is completed by a curiously tactile O-card, which has been embossed with braille and covered with a rubbery coating.
For almost a quarter century, John Duncan has constructed a radical body of sonic provocation through noise, field recordings, installation, and perhaps most notably shortwave. His interests have long been grounded in the psychological implications of sound, and how it has the ability to bring ecstasy, hostility, empathy, abjection, etc. to the listener. Always questioning himself and the world around him, Duncan remains one of the most dynamic artists of the contemporary era.
Carl Michael von Hausswolff is a Swedish composer currently working in Stockholm. His work involves studies of electricity, frequency, intonation and even paranormal activities within the framework of a challenging conceptual ideology of sound. Hausswolff's audiovisual installations have been shown at biennials in Istanbul and Johannesburg, and his music has been performed throughout Europe and North America. He is also co-monarch (with Leif Elggren) of the Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland.

Prezzo : € 19,80

	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : First Recordings 1978-1985
	etichetta : Vinyl-On-Demand
	formato : 3xLP + DVD
	packaging : box
	cod. nr. vod33
		2006
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John Duncan and his early tape-recordings (Station Event, No, Probe, Gain and Dark Market Broadcast) for the first time on Vinyl in a nice deluxe and embossed 3-LP-Box with Booklet and DVD (Prayer, 1982).

LPs:
Dark Market Broadcast
Composed for live broadcast on Dark Market Over Pirate FM Radio Code, Tokyo, 1985.
Recorded and broadcast from studio Unomori, Tokyo.
First released on C60 cassette by Cause & Effect, USA.

Station Event
BDR ensemble live on Close Radio over KPFK, Los Angeles, 1978.
Improvised live in separate studios, with the performers unable to hear between them, mixed with listeners' responses.
First released on C60 cassette by AQM, Los Angeles.

No
Broadcast live on Close Radio over KPFK, Los Angeles, 1978.
Performed in KPFK's open stage studio as guards block station staff and visitors from entering the event area.
First released on C30 cassette by AQM, Los Angeles.

Probe
Composed for Assemblée Générale n°5 compilation 1984/85.
First released on C30 by Ptôse Production.

Gain
Recorded at studio Unomori, Tokyo, 1984.
First released on side A of a C60 cassette by AQM, Tokyo.

DVD : Prayer
Video (1982) released as "Prayer" video, AQM303 (1982).

DVD : Phantom
Video (1985) released on "Testament" video, RRR (1987).

All recordings mastered from the original cassette masters.

Prezzo : € 75,00

	artista : John Duncan - Paolo Parisi
	titolo : Conservatory (San Sebastiano)
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : book + CD

	cod. nr. aq09
		2005
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Full color 64 pp. paperbound catalogue with installation audio CD mounted in separate cover, both inserted in paper box.

Installation audio CD:
John Duncan: shortwave, processing

Catalogue:
Texts (English/Italiano) by Daniela Cascella, Pietro Gaglianò, Giovanni Iovane, & Sergio Risaliti.
Published in occasion of the exhibition: Paolo Parisi & John Duncan / Voyager_1 / "Conservatory (San Sebastiano)" Quarter / Centroproduzione Arte / Firenze / dicembre 2004 / gennaio 2005

Prezzo : € 39,00

	artista : John Duncan - Mika Vainio - Ilpo Väisänen
	titolo : Nine Suggestions
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. aq08
		2005
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John Duncan: shortwave, processing
Mika Vainio: oscillators, processing
Ilpo Väisänen: oscillators, processing
Composed by John Duncan, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. Processed and mixed in Barcelona, Berlin and at Scrutto by John Duncan, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. Mastered at Scrutto by John Duncan.

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : Z'EV - John Duncan - Aidan Baker - Fear Falls Burning
	titolo : -
	etichetta : Die Stadt
	formato : 2x7"
	packaging : cardboard sleeve
	cod. nr. ds85
		2005
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Released in conjunction with a live concert on the 2. October 2005 in the «Lagerhaus» Bremen. The 2 x 7 inch feat. four exclusive tracks for this project. Z'EV provides another intense mix of material which partly originates from a live recording from the «Atonal Festival» in Berlin back in 1983. Side B feat. John Duncan with a strange static sound/noise piece, whereas both Aidan Baker on Side C and Fear Falls Burning (a new project by Vidna Obmana) on Side D give fine examples of their slowly building drone scapes. The discs come in a full colour fold-out cover.
Track listing:
Side A:
1. Z'EV «Elementonal» 5'01 (45rpm)
Side B:
2. JOHN DUNCAN «OFFFFFFFF» 5'01 (45rpm)
Side C:
3. AIDAN BAKER «Drone Four (excerpt)» 10'06 (33rpm)
Side D:
4. FEAR FALLS BURNING «The Beautiful Decline (excerpt)» 9'47 (33rpm)

Prezzo : € 16,20

	artista : John Duncan - Edvard Graham Lewis
	titolo : Presence
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : doublefold paper cover
	cod. nr. aq07
		2004
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Latest release in the collaboration series by John Duncan this time with Edward Graham Lewis (Wire).
John Duncan: processing, shortwave, field recording
Edvard Graham Lewis: voice, words, field recording

When you listen to a form of music crossing a giant disruptive discharge and an oppressive mantra of modifying stases, there's a good chance of John Duncan's involvement. Continuing his work on vocal treatment and shortwave - see his releases with Elliott Sharp and Asmus Tietchens for reference - this time Duncan pairs his effort with E.G. Lewis' voice and field recordings. "Fall" finds the couple in a febrile state during a morass of cosmic radiowave boost joined by sepulchral stabilizating choirs from urban ruins. In "Cycle", a long-sighted image of dark incandescence shakes ears to the point of hopelessness, while you're looking for a solution to all this perception derangement. "Purpose stimulated" and "Step" present Lewis reciting his lyrics, mangled by Duncan's processing or whispered in a large hall setting. This is high-gauge sound art, where lapidary glances and forsaken imaginary landscapes macerate the remnants of our illusions. Yet, right then, our purification from recycled intelligence begins: cheap ideals and borrowed philosophies don't belong here. [Massimo Ricci . Touching Extremes]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : John Duncan - Elliott Sharp
	titolo : Tongue
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : gatefold paper cover
	cod. nr. aq06
		2004
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John Duncan: voice, shortwave, processing
Elliott Sharp: voice, processing
CD in special gatefold paper cover
Photos by Giuliana Stefani

"As Joan LaBarbara titled her ancient LP, "Voice is the original instrument" - so what happens when you open that instrument bringing out its components? This question is answered by Duncan and Sharp in "Tongue": using voices as source plus shortwave and processing as coagulant, John and Elliott hallmark your listening space with plumbeous halos of slowed harmonics and intense confluences of spectral deflagrations. The tracks where the vocals are evidently recognizable are absolutely spectacular in their power - imagine enormous Tuva singers bursting out in a hell of rotors; on the other hand, shortwave and treatments often bring a complete timbal deforestation, rearranging the ear's domain according to unpredictable leaderships and patterns. Again, gurgling guttural beast utterances get modified, losing their identity through artificial leakages while the strength of tampered low frequencies makes way to the total reassertion of a stationary, fearful status quo. Mind-bogglingly innovative, this music is going to resist the hard test of passing time: it must be considered an important stepping stone in both artists' history." [Massimo Ricci - Touching Extremes]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : John Duncan - CM von Hausswolff
	titolo : Stun Shelter
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : box
	cod. nr. nifo-01
		2003
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CD and 50 page catalogue with photographs of the installation by Ela Bialkowska in a plastic DVD box.
Released by Galleria Nicola Fornello and Allquestions.
"John Duncan and Carl Michael von Hausswolff have been operating in an ever-changing creative sphere for more than twenty years, expressing themselves through diverted codes, overdone to the point of absurdity, yet subtly tacit and keenly mingled. The rhythm of their art stems from a strong vision, from an aesthetic journey resulting from extreme and accurate personal experiences; the variability of the rhythm represents the unbalance caused by doubt as the element that unceasingly questions certainty. Their activities spread out in countless directions, taking in conventional style in order to immediately subvert it. The subversion mostly involves the conventional perception and contextual location of expressive forms, complying with the need for a boundless creative fluency.
For the exhibition in Prato, the artists have agreed to arrange their works in the same exhibition space: a strong impact and a finely expressed sensitivity are features of these two installations. John Duncan's See is a video installation made up of four separate and simultaneous projections of sequences taken from the John See Series, a series of adult movies he directed in 1986-87 during his stay in Japan. On entering the dark exhibition space, the viewer is assailed by immense flashes of images and sound cut-ups... In those moments in which the sound is softer, a voice emerges, whispering Japanese phrases until it is drowned once again by the wave of louder sounds. Carl Michael von Hausswolff's Thinner & Low Frequency Bar / Glue & High Frequency Lounge consists of two bars made of steel and glass on which lie bottles and cans containing volatile substances... glue and thinner. On the bar two oscillators produce frequencies varying in intensity, whose sound penetrates the ears altering normal perception levels. Both works fill the space perfectly, one by means of strong images (See), the other through the substances shown. The attention level is at its maximum in attempts to grasp the Japanese whispering (See) and the ghost-sounds of the oscillators (Thinner Bar...), defying the threshold of audibility as they act on the unconscious." * Daniela Cascella [extract from the catalogue]

Prezzo: € 18,00 offerta! disponibilità immediata - in stock

	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : Infrasound - Tidal
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : cd
	packaging : copertina apribile - fold-out cover
	cod. nr. aq-05
		2003
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Tidal
This recording represents a period of nearly three centuries, based on the tidal spectra published by the Australian National Tide Tables. The sound is that of the tidal pattern at 60 'standard ports' around the Australian mainland. The Australian National Tide Tables specifies the magnitudes of the 22 most important tidal components. Each port has a characteristic frequency spectrum. Most components have a period of approximately 12 hours (semi-diurnal) or 24 hours (diurnal). There are also components with longer or shorter periods which occasionally make significant contributions to the spectrum. The spectra have been transposed so that 1 year is compressed into 1 second.

Seismic
Recorded at Kalamunda, Western Australia; 3 to 28 May, 1998, using seismometers oriented north-south and east-west to produce a stereophonic image similar to a crossed figure-8 microphone array. Data and notes supplied by seismologist Arie Verveer:
The big explosion is a magnitude 7.4 earthquake from southeast Taiwan.
Just after the main event you can hear the echoes bouncing off Earth's inner core.
Magnitude 7.5 3 May Southeast Taiwan
Magnitude 4.8 11 May Indian nuclear test
Magnitude 6.6 13 May New Britain region, Papau New Guinea
Magnitude 6.6 21 May Minahassa Peninsula, Sulawesi
Magnitude 6.0 23 May Mindanao, The Phillipines

Barometric
This recording was made over a period of 48 years, beginning on 1st July 1951. The barometer for one channel was in Williamtown Air Force Base (near Sydney), and the other in Laverton Air Force Base (near Melbourne). Data supplied by the Australian Bureau of Meterology, with the generous assistance of Simon Hayman. * Densil Cabrera 1998

Densil Cabrera and I have yet to meet face-to-face. Our collaboration began in 1998, when Densil posted an offer to an audio chat list, open to anyone curious to hear and possibly work with tidal recordings he'd made. I responded that same day, intrigued to hear how tidal measurements would sound, more than with their value as scientific research. When his CDr arrived, I accepted the audio sources as 'pure' sound, and sent him a message offering to work with them as such. Densil agreed, and we kept in contact by email.

While working on this project, listening to the sources, checking Densil's website, I tried to deduce something about his character, why he'd chosen to record these sounds, why he'd chosen to share them openly with anyone. Aside from a few technical images from his audio research, these recordings were all the evidence there was available to form an impression of who I was working with. They seemed to imply a person as fascinated with the technical processes of making the recordings -- designing and building the recording equipment, making the tests, writing the software -- as he was in the results. Clearly he was seeking some sort of contact with someone outside of his immediate colleagues and friends, but he appeared not to be interested in knowing anything at all about who I was. It was a conscious decision on my part to accept these limits of his interest, to focus entirely on what the sources had to offer. At the same time, for me this added a human dimension -- isolation, separateness, the monotony of repetitive research, impermanence -- to the marine, atmospheric and geological basis of the audio sources.

The inherent linearity of the scientific data represented in these sounds has deliberately been destroyed, modified into material -- data, if you like -- that operates on several levels at once. According to the time scale represented in several of these recordings, it could be said that the entire process involved in producing this work, spanning five years, took a matter of seconds to complete. And in that time, I still know as little as ever about Densil. * John Duncan 2003

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	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : Phantom Broadcast
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : gatefold paper cover
	cod. nr. aq04
		2003
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"The shortwave radio spectrum is dappled with anomalous crackled repetitions, pulsed datastream grit, and other synthetic transmissions of encrypted information. Far less sensational than the thoroughly disturbing phenomenon of numbers stations, these strange sounds are often referred to as utility signals, as they may be used to transmit information from remote weather stations, specify GPS co-ordinants, or communicate between air traffic controllers. Yet, without the proper equipment to translate and analyze these broadcasts, utility signals are unintelligible garblings that leave their origin, recipient, and meaning up to the listener's wild speculations.
Throughout his career, sound artist John Duncan has often manipulated shortwave radio broadcasts (especially these utility signals) in order to exacerbate the psychological condition which renders the unreadable other as alien, antagonistic, conspiratorial, and haunted. However, his recent investigations into the chromatics of shortwave have taken a noticeable conceptual turn away from confrontationalism and towards an electronic transcendentalism, where Duncan has replaced fear of not knowing with the recognition of the potential for beauty to emerge from such sounds.
Duncan composed PHANTOM BROADCAST from a single shortwave transmission, not giving any specifics as to its nature because they were neither clear nor relevant. As with all of his shortwave explorations, he has announced that he has worked on PHANTOM BROADCAST mostly through contextualization rather than electronic signal processing (although some reverb and downpitching are self-evident). This is a little hard to believe as the album opens with a magnificent ringing that appears less as radio noise telegraphy and more as a heavenly choir of baritone vocalists modulating between a small range of sustained notes behind an equally endless metallic bell tone. Throughout the 48 minute piece, Duncan unveils gradual shifts appearing as reverberating masses of air that elegantly rise and fall with an occasion flickerings around the edges. PHANTOM BROADCAST should stand as one of Duncan's greatest pieces, rendered as a majestic reflection of the Minimalist orchestral timbres found in Ligeti's Lux Aeterna.
As seen in the collaboration with the classically trained German ensemble Zeitkratzer, Duncan has speculated that his work may be shifting beyond the scope of electronic composition and towards chorale productions. Judging from this successful transformation of shortwave into such a production, his future as a composer looks bright. My vote for best record of 2002." [Jim Haynes - The Wire January 2003]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : Da sich die Machtgier...
	etichetta : Die Stadt
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. ds65
		2003
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A new CD by John Duncan which is completely based on recordings of Asmus Tietchens voice. Edition of 1000 copies in digipack cover with insert.
Playing time: 66:05 min.
Track list:
1. 'Freih zein hoern macht...' 19'36''
2. 'Tauf sind mit andere namen' 13'45''
3. 'Das Ich macht...' 2'44''
4. 'Aber...' 30'00''

John Duncan about 'Da sich die Machtgier...':
ASMUS TIETCHENS proposed that he and I work together years ago -- many years ago. For a variety of reasons it didn't happen , and at this point I don't remember any of them. Finally we agreed to start: I asked him to send a recording of his voice and said I'd work with it, send him the result and continue from there -- figuring that he would add to my gestures, then I'd add to his, ect., until we were both satisfied. Asmus sent recordings of him reading two excerpts from texts by E.M. CIORAN. Asmus had already processed his voice on both tracks, which are left more or less intact here on track 3. After eighteen more months I started working on them, and a couple of weeks afterward send him the results. Asmus liked what he heard, said he felt it was already finished -- and since he hadn't participated directly in the composing process, he couldn't accept credit for involvement in it. We still disagree on this, but it's useless to insist that someone accept what he doesn't feel he's earned. So although I remain convinced that Asmus deserves to be acknowledged as an equal, we've agreed that this project would be credited to me alone.

"For thousands of years, the appetite for power being dispersed in countles tyrannies, great and small, which have raged here and there, the moment seems at hand when that appetite must finally collect and concentrate in order to culminate in a single power, expression of that thirst which as devoured, and still devours the globe, last word of all our dreams of mastery, the consummmation of our hopes and abberations. The sattered human herd will be united under the guardianship of one pitiless shepherd, a kind of planetary monster before whom the nations will prostrate temselves in an alarm bordering on ecstasy. The universe brought to its knees, an important chapter of history will be closed. Then will begin the disintegartion of this new reign and the return to the primal disorder, to the old anarchy; the smothered hates and vices will reappear and with them the minor tyrants of the bygone cycles. After the Great Slavery, mediocre ones. But as they emerge from their monumental servitudes, the survivors will be proud of their shame and, incomparable victims, will celebrate its memory. -- E.M. Cioran, 'Learning from the Tyrants'

Prezzo : € 18,60

	artista : John Duncan - Zeitkratzer
	titolo : Fresh
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : gatefold paper cover
	cod. nr. aq03
		2002
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Duncan's usual base materials are treated 'electronic' sounds taken from non-musical sources -- shortwave signals, or the emissions of a linear particle accelerator, for example. Zeitkratzer is a ten piece featuring conventional strings, percussion and brass, plus one member credited with electronics. The music works its surprises by filtering acoustically produced drones and objectified sounds through an electronic aesthetic. The results have an oddly removed effect. Zeitkratzer and Duncan appear to share an interest in the sheer plasticity of acoustic sound, and the pursuit of this interest takes them into some remarkable spaces. "NAV-FLEX", originally for shortwave signals, is dominated by wavering strings and breathy saxophone coalescing into an unstable drone. Making a point of its circularity, its principal looping sound is set against the shifting textural material collecting at its periphery. Its forward movement, such as it is, derives from the mobility of its marginal elements. "TRINITY" is even better: full of suppressed menace, it mixes episodes of surging, pitchblending drone with harsh noise that then modulates into distressed accordion tones. Three minutes from the end the tension is diffused, as the piece dissolves into insubstantial gusts of breath. Under Duncan's conducting, the ever resourceful zeitkratzer have pulled off two more provocative feats of sonic transposition.
[Will Montgomery, The Wire]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : John Duncan - Francisco Lopez
	titolo : NAV
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : 2xCD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. aq02
		2001
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Data files
Shortwave

Double CD in doublefold digipak cover released by .absolute. and Allquestions

Not content with the material that won them an Honorable Mention at the 2000 Prix Ars Electronica, Duncan and López have completely recomposed this work to two CD's, NAV-FLEX (Duncan) and NAV-gate (López), by adding each others' sources to their own.
"With two names like these, it's guaranteed. The first of the two CD's, NAV-gate, presents Lopez and Duncan chiselling vibrations that are often suspended at the limit of the audible, and it's true that playback via headphones brings discoveries to the ear that speakers not in a setting of total silence don't catch. The color of the sound seems dark, galactic, in a limbo that contains spirits now ready to make the leap to the center of the earth, to know once and for all the origin of its continuous tremors. A few percussive touches seperate the parts, and in the end you'll find yourself disoriented, needing to understand yet aware of invisible forces new to us. The second disk, NAV-FLEX, starts off from a sort of electroacoustic 'lightning', a dry flash of frequencies that start together as a chord, but then are divided, chasing each other and almost disappearing, only to return and show themselves in the distance, meteorites not flying wild but driven by the same great centripetal force that sends the mind and body to absolute unity: the achievement of perfection." [Massimo Ricci]

Prezzo : € 30,00

	artista : John Duncan & Peter Fleur
	titolo : The Scattering
	etichetta : Edition...
	formato : CD
	cod. nr. xxxii
		2001
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data files and shortwave, that's all it takes for john duncan and peter fleur to instantly incinerate whoever tries to open the creaky door to their electroacoustic secrets. "the scattering" alternates acid textures with a subterranean low pulse projecting the music directly to the crossing of your conscient/altered states, often violently surprising with long silent pauses followed by sudden discharges. the rumble of a thousand bottled thunderstorms opens fleur's "aggregate", only to transform itself into an evil factory producing ultra-high frequencies and metallic laminates of scorching abrasiveness (curiously, all of the above seems to attract birds around my place; it's not the first time they start chirping loud while i listen to particular recordings). duncan's "threshold" closes this work starting from silence itself, slowly bringing up rippling currents of almost imperceptible shortwave emissions that inexorably affirm their power in the desolate border area where a concentrate state of shock, aural electrocution and yet again that incredible sense of belonging to nowhere meet. mind you, this record is not useful for mass appreciation and its impact on nerves is potent; to me, it's an essential page of modern art. -- massimo ricci, touching extremes

Prezzo : € 16,20

	artista : John Duncan - Giuliana Stefani
	titolo : Palace Of Mind
	etichetta : Allquestions
	formato : CD
	packaging : doublefold paper cover
	cod. nr. aq01
		2001
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"PALACE of MIND is a collaborative effort between Duncan and Italian mathematician Giuliana Stefani. In this work, he returns to the architectural metaphors, which he previously explored on 1996's THE CRACKLING, a documentation of the aural properties found within SLAC, Stanford University's titanic particle linear accelerator. PALACE of MIND follows a labyrinthine architectural schematic which parallels not only the minute circuitry of the computer but also the rhizomatic synaptic connections of the brain. With the movement from an irritable data-stream purity to the gossamer haze of shortwave distortion to gaping drones of treated vocal vibrato, Duncan and Stefani have set a trajectory deep into the heart of their sonic architecture. Each room is saturated with an anxiousness for what may be on the other side of the door. It is not Duncan firing a gun at your head, but an interlocking network of chambers that resonate and breathe with a profound beauty. Dare it be said that John Duncan has created something holy?" [Jim Haynes - The Wire]

Prezzo : € 17,40

	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : Tap Internal
	etichetta : Touch
	formato : CD
	packaging : jewel case
	cod. nr. tone11
		2000
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"Have you ever asked yourself 'What is the sound of energy?' John Duncan has been trying for years to explain the composition of matter through sound, and not everyone can understand this -- but once the door is opened everything suddenly becomes easy. Tap Internal is beautiful and, in classic Duncan style, cruel -- in that it puts you in contact with our deepest psyche and lays it bare, turning the auricular membrane inside out, leaving an indelible mark of new frequencies that are beautiful to abandon yourself to. But watch out: just at the moment of hypnosis the scenario is completely convoluted and the sound becomes coarse and varied, cuts the air and tries to attack. The nightmare begins again, and once more the brain is forced to change its attitude, define a new reaction to the input. The beauty and uniqueness of John Duncan's music is fully captured in this continuous change of situations, dynamics, sounds and emotions which is, in a word, the microscopic photography of life itself."

Prezzo : € 18,00

	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : Seek
	etichetta : Mort Aux Vaches
	formato : CD
	packaging : custom cover
	cod. nr. mavduncan
		1997
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SEEK is new work, composed for radio broadcast over VPRO feature "de Avonden", produced by Berry Kamer and Jan Hiddink. Sources for SEEK include shortwave radio and computer-generated audio. "l'Attesa" ("The Wait") was composed with Ciro Iamarco in Amsterdam, a year before his death. Ciro chose the title.

USA composer John Duncan, now living in Italy (after spending time in Japan and The Netherlands) produces work that is most extreme and rumoured by - a true controversy of it's own. Performances involved dead animals, porn films and the audience naked in locked rooms. His audio work involves shortwave, computer and field recordings. He has been recording with Andrew McKenzie, Zbgniew Karkowski and Bernard Guenther.

Prezzo : € 16,20

	artista : John Duncan - Bernhard Günter
	titolo : Home, Unspeakable
	etichetta : Trente Oiseaux
	formato : CD
	packaging : slim jewel case
	cod. nr. toc964
		1996
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This long awaited and highly acclaimed collaboration features one single piece inspired by Samuel Beckett's libretto for Morton Feldman's chamber opera "neither". The combination of the distinctive styles of the two artists has resulted in music that you have never heard quite like this before ...
"Best record of 1996!" Jim O'Rourke in THE WIRE.

Prezzo : € 13,80

	artista : John Duncan
	titolo : John See Soundtracks
	etichetta : RRR
	formato : CD

	cod. nr. rrrcd18
		1996
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CD including the full soundtrack from "Move Forward" and all the soundtracks from the limited-edition picturedisc LP "The John See Series" released on RRRecords.

Tracklisting:
1 Breath Choir (10:43)
2 Aidayuki Passion (0:50)
3 Breathchoir Mix (4:54)
4 Inka (5:03)
5 Power Love (3:23)
6 Move Forward OST (24:09)

Prezzo : € 9,90