Kaj Duncan David

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Kaj Duncan David is a composer and performer of electronic music living in Berlin. His varied compositional practice is rooted in computer music production techniques. Many of his scored pieces are minimalist explorations of gestalt relations between sound and light in concert settings, involving musical interconnection between instrumental performance and light/video. In larger theatre/music projects he exploresthemes at the meeting point between speculative philosophies and science fiction. He also makes music and designs sound for dance performances. Sometimes elements from all these undertakings end up in an album like All Culture Is Dissolving.selected stipends / residencies / awardsProgetto Positano / Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung (2022)fellow of the JUNGE AKADEMIE / Akademie der Künste Berlin (2019)stipend in support of continued artistic practice / Berlin Senate Department of Culture (2019)Special Recognition Award for the work Up Close and Personal / Danish Arts Council (2019)Talent Award / Carl Nielsen and Anne-Marie Carl Nielsen Foundation (2018)regular stipends in support of continued artistic practice / Danish Arts Council (2017-2022)Make Sound Residency / Inter Arts Centre Malmö (2017)studiesstudies between 2006 and 2016 in music, sound art, electronic music and scenic composition at Goldsmiths College [London], Det Jyske Musikkonservatorium [Aarhus] and the Hochschule für Musik [Dresden].Mentors in composition: Simon Steen-Andersen, Manos Tsangaris and Franz-Martin Olbrisch.

The text was taken from the website of Kaj Duncan David.

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