Curd Duca (born 14 March 1955) is an Austrian musician, composer and producer of

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

Life and work

Duca has played (1982–1991) in the experimental groups "Auch wenn es seltsam klingen mag / even though it may sound strange)","8 ODER 9 / 8 OR 9" and "Skin" ( accordion, guitar, vocals, percussion). Starting in 1992, he has been working mainly on solo projects with electronic instruments (analog and digital synthesizers, computer). Duca is known for his work with

audio samples In sound and music, sampling is the reuse of a portion (or sample) of a sound recording in another recording. Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sounds or entire bars of music, and may be layered, equalized, sped up or ...

that are altered, cut-up and "re-contextualised" (''cut-up artist'' – Spin Magazine). The audio is taken from

analog Analog or analogue may refer to: Computing and electronics * Analog signal, in which information is encoded in a continuous variable ** Analog device, an apparatus that operates on analog signals *** Analog electronics, circuits which use analo ...

sources (

acoustic instruments Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means. While all music was once acoustic, the retronym "acoustic music" appeared after the adven ...

orchestras An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families. There are typically four main sections of instruments: * bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...

, vocals,

noise Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...

bird calls Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. In non-technical use, bird songs are the bird sounds that are melodious to the human ear. In ornithology and birding, songs (relatively complex vocalizations) are distinguished by func ...

, et al.) and mostly used without beats.

Rhythm Rhythm (from Greek Greek may refer to: Greece Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group. *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family. **Proto-Greek language, the assumed ...

ic structures are created, originally by loops, more recently by micro-cuts and improvisation with parameters of "granular synthesis". From 1996, Duca's albums were released on the experimental/techno label

Mille Plateaux ''A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia'' (french: link=no, Mille plateaux) is a 1980 book by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. It is the second and final volume of their collaborativ ...

. 20 years later, the German label Magazine rediscovered Duca, releasing his "Waves" trilogy between 2020 and 2022.

Albums

* ''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

, Frankfurt 1996) * ''elevator 1'' * ''elevator 2'' (vocals: Carin Feldschmid) * ''elevator 3'' (vocals: Carin Feldschmid) – (LP, CD

, Frankfurt 1998 – 2000) * ''Waves 1'' (LP, CD Magazine, 2020) * ''Waves 2'' (LP, CD Magazine, 2021) * ''Waves 3'' (LP, CD Magazine, 2022)

Compilations

* ''Modulation & Transformation'' 3 (

) * ''Modulation & Transformation'' 4 (

) * ''Clicks & Cuts'' (Mille Plateaux) * ''The Wire Tapper'' 5 (The Wire Magazine, London) * ''The Eclectic Sound Of Vienna 2'' (Spray) * ''Mind The Gap vol 20'' (Gonzo Circus) * ''In memoriam – Max Brand'' ()

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Duca, Curd 1955 births Living people Austrian electronic musicians Experimental musicians