John Duncan

John Duncan was born in 1953 in Wichita, Kansas. He studied at CalArts with Allan Kaprow. He is widely recognized for his work in performance, music, and installations based on emotional responses to sensory deprivation and stimuli. His work has performed and shown at Ars Electronica, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; the Osterreichisches Museum für Augewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna; Museo de Arte Contemporano, Barcelona; and Museum of Tokyo (MOT).

His 1996 projects THE CRACKLING, composed with Max Springer from field recordings made at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California, and HOME: UNSPEAKABLE composed with Bernhard Günter, are considered by critics and composers alike to be landmarks in experimental sound. NAV, his audio project with Francisco Lopez, received a 1999 Prix Ars Electronica award for digital music.

“TAP INTERNAL
Outside going in
Inside going in
The machine is guided to tap itself
Seduce the listener”