Curd Duca


Curd Duca is an Austrian musician, composer and producer of electronic music.

Life and work

Duca has played ","8 ODER 9 / 8 OR 9" and "Skin". Starting in 1992, he has been working mainly on solo projects with electronic instruments.
Duca is known for his work with audio samples that get altered, cut-up and "re-contextualised". The audio is taken from analog sources and mostly used without beats. Rhythmic 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.
Genre / style : instrumental, electronic, lounge, ambient, sample-based, contemporary, experimental, clicks & cuts, cinematic, electro-acoustic...
Moods: melancholy, eerie, nocturnal, hypnotic, laid-back, mellow, trippy, ethereal...

Albums

De-bug, Spex, Die Zeit, skug, Der Standard, The Wire, actuel, nova, Spin, CMJ, Grooves, Zürcher Tagesanzeiger, Wired, et al.

Concerts

Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Zürich, London, Barcelona, New York, Miami, Luxembourg, , et al.

Various

Music for films: Flaming Ears, The Subversion Agency, et al.
Music for exhibitions: telepolis, Installation Hedy Lamarr, Videos by Ingeborg Strobl.
Works for ORF Kunstradio / Art Radio: voices / cut-up hitler, net/language
He has been involved with the school of poetry, Vienna as a teacher and lecturer for sound poetry.