John Duncan is an artist who lived and worked in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Amsterdam. Currently he lives and works in Bologna. He occupies himself with performance art, installations, contemporary music, video art and experimental film. He regularly uses short-wave radio and voices in his work. His work can be very confrontational at times.
Track 1
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Entry
Playing time: 0:26
Album Title: Send
Label: Touch
Catalogue#: TO:20
Format: CD
Country of publication: England
Year of publication: 1993
Track 2
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Untitled
Playing time: 0:59
Album Title: Volume: Bed Of Sound
Label: MoMA
Catalogue#: PS 1
Format: CD
Country of publication: US
Year of publication: 2000
Track 3
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Pass
Playing time: 2:21
Album Title: Incoming
Label: Streamline
Catalogue#: Streamline 1005
Format: CD
Country of publication: Germany
Year of publication: 1994
Track 4
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Priority
Playing time: 2:50
Album Title: Send
Label: Touch
Catalogue#: TO:20
Format: CD
Country of publication: England
Year of publication: 1993
Track 5
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Live At Anti Club, Los Angels 1-9-86 (Excerpt)
Playing time: 4:48
Album Title: Journey Into Pain
Label: Beast 666 Tapes
Catalogue#: BST007-1-4
Format: 4x Cassette
Country of publication: Japan
Year of publication: 1987
Track 6
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Trinity
Playing time: 9:52
Album Title: A Fault In The Nothing
Label: Ash International
Catalogue#: ASH 2.6CD2
Format: 2x CD Compilation
Country of publication: England
Year of publication: 1996
Track 7
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Change (Excerpt)
Playing time: 4:40
Album Title: The Mind Of A Missile
Label: Heel Stone Records
Catalogue#: Stone 003
Format: CD Compilation
Country of publication: Germany
Year of publication: 1996
Track 8
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Trespass
Playing time: 4:42
Album Title: Send
Label: Touch
Catalogue#: TO:20
Format: CD
Country of publication: England
Year of publication: 1993
Track 9
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Split Second
Playing time: 10:14
Album Title: Tulpas
Label: Selektion
Catalogue#: SCD 024
Format: 5x CD
Country of publication: Germany
Year of publication: 1997
Track 10
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Flare
Playing time: 3:42
Album Title: Incoming
Label: Streamline
Catalogue#: Streamline 1005
Format: CD
Country of publication: Germany
Year of publication: 1994
Track 11
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Mass
Playing time: 2:32
Album Title: Klaar
Label: Extreme
Catalogue#: XCD 006
Format: CD
Country of publication: Australia
Year of publication: 1991
Track 12
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Scramble
Playing time: 4:02
Album Title: Seek
Label: Mort Aux Vaches
Catalogue#: none
Format: CD
Country of publication: The Netherlands
Year of publication: 1997
Track 13
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Stress Chamber
Playing time: 2:38
Album Title: Unbecoming
Label: Freedom In A Vacuum
Catalogue#: VACCD.01
Format: CD Compilation
Country of publication: Canada
Year of publication: 1993
Track 14
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Purge (Excerpt)
Playing time: 3:28
Album Title: Dark Market Broadcast
Label: Cause And Effect
Catalogue#: geen
Format: Cassette
Country of publication: US
Year of publication: 1986
Track 15
Artist: John Duncan
Title: Move Forward, Film Soundtrack (Excerpt)
Playing time: 2:05
Album Title: Pleasure Escape
Label: B-Sellers
Catalogue#: ISBN4-938198-13-4
Format: Cassette C46
Country of publication: Japan
Year of publication: 1985
Explanation per track:
The CD Send was recorded in Tokyo between 1985 and 1992 in Tokyo and at Steim in Amsterdam. Trespass was composed in collaboration with Bram Angstrom.
Untitled (2000) is a piece of his CD Tap Internal which was broadcasted at the exhibition Bed Of Sound at MoMA.
Live At Anti Club is the recording of a concert of Duncan in Los Angeles in 1986.
Trinity is a "field recording" which is recorded at KK6 in Amsterdam and at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in Stanford, California.
Split Second is from the compilation CD Tulpas which pays full attention to the method of working of Ralf Wehowsky (later on more about that).
Scramble is a live recording made for the VPRO programme De Avonden.
Stress Chamber is a recording of his installation with the same name which exists of 3 independent engines which bring the walls of a sea container to vibrate at the resonance frequency of the sea container itself. Spectators may go in one by one and are locked into the sea container to subsequently be exposed to the frequencies. The premiere of the installation was at the Absolute Threshold Machine Festival in Amsterdam. Initially the organisers didn’t want to let the installation take part of the festival since the vibrations were so fierce that spectators could have experienced it as an instrument of torture. When finally it could take part of the festival, the installation created such long lines of spectators the festival had to stay open longer.
Move Forward is the soundtrack of the film with the same name. The piece which will be broadcasted in this programme is a piece of the tape of the People’s Temple Shortware Broadcast.
