sound designer/composer/author/educator
biography:
Andrew Duke has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music since 1987. His music is consistently referred to by the media and listeners alike as continuously presenting a unique and distinct sound; quotes: Andrew Duke creates music that sounds like it has a reason for living (The Wire, UK); He often seems to be inventing new genres (Cyclic Defrost, Australia); a unique producer with a strong perception and approach of his own to electronic music (Koert Notario, Courthouse Int'l Audio, The Netherlands); Andrew Duke renews my faith in the world of slow-mo techno (Igloomag/Microview, USA); Andrew Duke reinvents himself almost with every release (All Music Guide, USA); Andrew Duke puts his soul into his experimental music (The Halifax Daily News, Canada); The man behind the East Coast electronic music scene, Duke displays a different facet of his skill with every release (Exclaim, Canada). Two PSAs he scored for the national Racism: Stop It! campaign were recognized with awards in March 2005. His Sprung album (released on Frances Bip-Hop label in 2002) was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the 2003 annual Canadian Independent Music Awards. He has been commissioned for 55+ remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah, Pink Floyd, Chicks On Speed, Heavy Meadows, and David Kristian), has licensed 125+ tracks to compilations, and regularly tours his live PA.
other activities:
Duke has been writing about music since 1981 (published in Computer Music, Magic Feet (UK), Vice, XLR8R, Urb, ei, Streetsound (US), Exclaim, The Coast (Canada), and others) and his articles have been reprinted internationally in languages including French, German, Italian, Polish, and Serbian; from 1987-2004 he hosted Andrew Duke's In The Mix (a weekly radio/internet show syndicated at one point to over 35 million weekly listeners worldwide), produced artists at his Cognition Sound studio, and produced events across Canada. He formed the Cognition Audioworks label in 1990 after operating Incognito Musique and Digitalis Recordings (1987-1990). Cognition Audioworks' online home is the Cognition site: cognitionaudioworks.com (ranked as an "essential" website and one of the Top 200 sites on the net, music-related or otherwise, in The Wire, October 2000). Duke has been a jury member for Canadas Junos (the equivalent to Americas Grammys; 2000, 2001, 2006), Indies (2001), DJ Olympics (1998-2005), and Dig Your Roots (2002, 2003); he was a panelist at MUTEK_Intersection (2003). He is a member of the Guild of Canadian Film Composers as well as Halifax's Upstream Orchestra and Grrrilla Orchestra (led by Paul Cram). Duke has served on the Board of Directors for the National Campus and Community Radio Association. He is also a music software educator and a visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally.
print/online:
Dukes music and sound design has received international recognition in the press, with features published and/or scheduled in Germany (Newempire, Ableton, Native Instruments), Turkey (Basatap), the UK (Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Jockey Slut, Absorb), France (Coda, Clarknova), Belgium (Ultra), The Netherlands (Het Parool, Wreck This Mess), Italy (The Vibes), Spain (Go), Poland (Syntezatory), Finland (Phinnzine), Belarus (MG), Macedonia (Urban, Fakezine, Star6_789), Chicago (Thousand Words), Boston (Weekly Dig), Toronto (!earshot, Chart, Eye, Umbrella, Subway), Montreal (Mirror, Hour, Voir, Ici, Nightlife), Ottawa (Xpress), Vancouver (Discorder), Edmonton (See), Winnipeg (Stylus), St Catherines (Pulse Niagara, Freq), Saint John (Nightwaves), Sydney (title tbc), and Halifax (The Herald, The Daily News, The Coast, Soundcheck, Idiot, and The Gazette).
compilations:
Dukes music has been compiled with such artists as Acid Jesus, Autechre, Balil, Bangkok Impact, Daniel Bell, The Black Dog, Blectum From Blechdom, Coil, Convextion, Cray, Dabrye, Greg Davis, Sean Deason, Deep Chord, Vladislav Delay, Dntel, Duul Drv, Luke Eargoggle, 8-Bit Rockers, Morgan Geist, Global Communication, Jan Jelinek, O. Lamm, Languis, Legowelt, Hakan Lidbo, Francisco Lopez, Luisine, Mannequin Lung, Matmos, Multiplex, KK Null, Klangstabil, Alan Oldham, Pacou, Phthalocyanine, Pita, Proem, Rechenzentrum, Reload, Safety Scissors, Jeff Samuel, Sawako, Schneider TM, John Selway, Sender Berlin, Si-Cut.db, Todd Sines, Mikael Stavostrand, Sutekh, Swayzak, Sybarite, John Tejada, Thievery Corporation, Twerk, Ultra Milkmaids, Ricardo Villalobos, V/Vm, Stewart Walker, Geoff White, Benjamin Wild, and Zip.
discography and filmography (selected):
scoring and sound design for film, television, video, web, theatre, and radio:
upcoming: sound design for Audiobase/Stockhouse Media (USA), Loopmasters/Big Fish Audio (UK), Psyclist (film, Pyrrhus Productions, Luxembourg), Ohrmong (film, Stefan Bauer, Germany), Fear Process (film, Damien Trainor, Halifax), Wittgenstein (web installation, David Clark, Halifax), title tbd (documentary, Sobaz Benjamin, Halifax), title tbd (documentary, Darryll Walsh, Halifax), Fire & Fog (film, Tim McDonough, Saint John); 2006: sound design for MMMNNNRRRG (website for indie comics label from Portugal), Sound Ideas (Canada), Computer Music/Future Publishing (UK); 2005: sound design for Sound Ideas (Canada), Computer Music/Future Publishing (UK), Music Tech/Anthem Publishing (UK); sound design featured on Native Instruments (Germany), Freesound (Spain), Archipel (Canada) sites; The Stereotype, Racism Learned, and 2 others (Anti-Racism PSAs, Sobaz Benjamin, Halifax, Canadian Heritage, Viewfinders, Much Music, CTV, and CBC); 2004: Likewise (web installation, David Clark, Halifax), One True Measure (film, Jason Levangie, Halifax), The Iceman (film, Joel Maillet, Halifax), Passing Through People (film, Tim McDonough, Saint John), The Other Game (film, Rob Calnen, Halifax); 2003: Sheldon Haunting (film, Simon Naylor, Halifax), Petra (play, Theatre Direct Canada, Toronto); 1996: Let Sleeping Armadillos Lie (play, Keile Legge, Halifax); 1995: Local Music Scene (documentary, Andrea Simmons, Halifax); 1987-present: various radio spots (CKDU, Halifax). Dukes sound design has been used in promos for TVs Survivorman (Discovery Science and Outdoor Life Network channels, 2006), and his music has been licensed for television and radio productions, most recently BBC TV Channel 4 and CBC TVs Sex Traffic (nominated for 14 Gemini Awards; Redlight Productions, 2005) and CBC TV's Snakes & Ladders (Political Productions, 2004). He placed 2nd in the competition to score Aliant's 2003 Here. For You. television and radio advertising campaign.
albums:
upcoming: Consumer Vs. User (Phthalo, USA), Wet (Le Son 666, Canada), Andrew Duke + I8USymbiotic (Pertinence, Canada), Andrew Duke Ensemble (Bip-Hop, France), split CD with Akumu (Cohort, USA), We Owe Roland (pHinnMilk, Finland), Remembering Jason Trenholm (label tba), From The Deep End (label tba); 2005: Second Opinion (Phoniq, Canada), Dead Air Alive (Petite Sono, Canada), Oscar The Grouch (or, Yes, The Dog Ate It!) (Polygon Network, Canada); 2004: Just Because You Can Doesnt Mean You Should (Cognition Audioworks, Canada); 2003: Take Nothing For Granted (Cognition Audioworks, Canada; licensed to Acid Fake, Macedonia); 2002: Sprung (Bip-Hop, France), More Destructive Than Organized (Cognition Audioworks, Canada; licensed to Bake/Staalplaat, The Netherlands), 7402 (split with Hypo) (Tsunami Addiction, France), Physical and Mental Health (Dial, USA), Highest Common Denominator (Piehead, Canada); 2001: Sit/Stand: Live Humidity; 1996: Ginga; 1995: Numeric; 1994: Ashes and Ceremony; 1993: Drowning In Oxygen and Communion (all Cognition Audioworks, Canada).
EPs:
upcoming: Who Is John Galt? (Acid Fake, Macedonia), and title tbd (Centuries, Macedonia); 2005: Inbox (Sinergy Networks/Klitekture, Spain); 2003: Environmental Politics (and/OAR, USA); 2001: 09X90 (licensed to Tiln, USA), 2000: Erosion, 1996: Orchestral Suite for 707, 727, & Strings; 1995: RZ Tracks; 1994: Schotoma and Lucidril (all Cognition Audioworks).
compilation appearances:
upcoming: Atlantic (Divorce, Canada), East Coast Chill (VVVU, Canada), Now/ thats; (what) I [call. {nothing! (souRce research, UK), Colored Lights (Kikapu/Breaking Tension, Canada), A Tribute To Floyd (TV5, Norway), Snakes & Ladders DVD (CBC TV, Canada), Star6_789 Part 2 (Centuries, Macedonia), Periferia (Hushush, Canada), While The World Waited Volume Two (Samsa, USA), Sex Traffic DVD (CBC TV, Canada), Soundtoys Vol. 2 (Bip-Hop, France), Voices In My Head (Worthy, Canada), Dark Sky Remix Project (GB Productions, Poland), CTNERMX Vol. 2 (pHinnMilk, Finland), Music Industry Association Of Nova Scotia (MIANS, Canada), One-Minute Vacations: The Second Year (Quiet American, US), East Coast Filmscapes (VVVU, Canada), Nightwaves: Compilation Vol. 2 (Eleven Wave, Canada), and yet-to-be-titled compilations on Pertinence (Canada),Vinyl Republik/Maximum/Universal (Canada), Le Son 666 (Canada), Art Konkret (Germany), Stratagem (Canada), Contexterrior (USA), Khyber (Canada), Qlipothic (USA), Salvation (Canada), Archipel (Canada), and 12times50 (UK); 2006: Breaking Down The Barriers (Afe, Italy); 2005: East Coast A Go Go (VVVU, Canada), The Last Signal (Independent Opposition, US), Living Music 2005 (Centrediscs, Canada); 2004: SamplicityOne Step Further (Syntezatory, Poland), C-works (Locus Of Assemblage, UK/Zeromoon, USA), The Polygon Minute (Polygon Network, Canada), Il Programma De Religione (Boyarm, USA), Fifty Fifty (Halifax Skatepark Coalition, Canada), Looping Spork Part 2 (Tuningspork, USA), Poetry And Chaos (Chmafu, Austria), 10 Below (Petite Sono, Canada), Stasisfield: Year 2 (Stasisfield, USA), CTNERMX (Delta B, UK); 2003: Anomalous Silencer no.6 (Napalmed, Czech Republic), Recovered Patience (Chmafu Nocords, Austria), Phonography.org 4 (Phonography.org, USA), Zenial Reworked (Vivo, Poland), The Best Of CKDU Live (CKDU, Canada), SFEECD10 Sfeericle (Canada), CTNERMX Vol. 1 (pHinnMilk, Finland), Lambda (Megahertz, Germany), Pop Life Vol. 16: Extension of Electro: White Spaces Converge (Contact, Japan), and Stars From Worthy Skies (Worthy, Canada); 2002: Save Your Fork, Theres Pie! (Piehead, Canada), Installment: 05 (Masstransfer, USA), 45 Seconds of: (Simballrecs, USA), Waveforms: Halifax Electronic Music (Cognition Audioworks), File Sharing (12times50, UK), Compilation 002 (Acid Fake, Macedonia), Try Again (Tsunami Addiction, France), Halifax Pop Explosion (HPX, Canada), Bip-Hop Generation vol.5 (Bip-Hop, France), UnseenA Worthy Compilation (Worthy, Canada); 2001: Integral Components (Component, USA), Looping Spork Part 1 (Tuningspork, USA), NSCAD 2001: Sound Compilation (NSCAD, Canada); 2000: Nightwaves: Compilation Vol. 1 (Eleven Wave, Canada); 1999: East (Impulse To Injury, Canada) and Halifax Experimental Music Festival (PA, Canada); 1995: Digital Sects 2 (Matrix, USA) and Surreal Sound Vol. 2 (Surreal Sound, Belgium); 1994: LVXVRIA II (Enlightenment, UK); 1993: Collection 3; 1992: Collection 2; 1991: Collection 1 (all Cognition Audioworks).
remixes:
upcoming: The Architect, Desert Planet, House Of Orange, Hrdvsion, David Kristian, Massaccesi, Tena Palmer, Maja Ratkje, Sleepless Nights, Sound 00, and Souns; 2003: Eta Carinae, Cornucopia, Marufura Fufunjiru, Gary Flanagan, Galerie Stratique, Heavy Meadows, Loam, Nemezis, O.S.T., Phonopsia, Seed, Syntix, and Zenial; 2002: Aaliyah, The Blameshifter, Chicks On Speed, Club Telex Noise Ensemble, Mister Nobu, Lederhosen Lucil, and Pink Floyd; 1995: Sublevel and Forkboy; 1994: Scott n Joey; 1993: DJ Hardkore
collaborations:
upcoming: Akumu, Clinker, Jesse Dangerously, Mike Donovan, Duul_Drv, Emisor, Every Kid On Acid, Kompleksi, Larvae, Alex Pearson, Psychosomatic Climax Machine, Scanner, Tonne, and Voodoo Apostles; 2003: Loam, Massaccesi, Naw, O.S.T., and Zenial; 2002: Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks, Kim Cascone, Dalglish, I8U, Monolake, and Polmo Polpo
sound installations:
2002: HRM H2O at Signal & Noise: Festival of Video & Sound (Video In Studios, Vancouver), Make Believe Ballroom Hour at Closet Gallery (The Khyber Centre For The Arts, Halifax), Dead Air Alive at Dalhousie Art Gallery (Dalhousie Arts Centre, Halifax); 2001: Ground Fault (outdoor location, San Francisco)
online presentations:
currently: Aesova.org/tiln, ChemicalPictures.net/Likewise, LatLonSnd.com, Microsound.org/Madrid, Microsound.org/stoneripple, NewMusicCanada.com, QuietAmerican.org, Stasisfield.com
live appearances:
in Vancouver, Edmonton, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Ottawa, Kingston, Hamilton, St Catherines, London, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Fredericton, Saint John, Moncton, Halifax, and Sydney at various festivals (MUTEK dans la rue, New Forms Festival, Atlantic Jazz Festival, Spring Fever, Networkings Festival, Pop Explosion, East Coast Unauthorized, and Experimental Music Festival) and venues with artists including Mitchell Akiyama, Akumu, Annalyze, Battery Operated, Bleupulp, Eloi Brunelle, Champion, Clinker, The Paul Cram Orchestra, Deadbeat, DIberville, Jimmy Edgar, Gary Flanagan, Foal, Frivolous, Greg Gow, GrannyArk, Holzkopf, I8U, Tomas Jirku, Robin Judge, Junior Boys, David Kristian, Loscil, Alain Mongeau, Dani Oore, Arthur Oskan, Naw, Pheek, Joe Silva, Sneak-Thief, Steb Sly, Szkieve, Amon Tobin, Tobias Van Veen, and Xingu Hill.
Andrew Duke is available for print, radio, and net interviews, live bookings (performances as well as demos/workshops), scoring, sound design, and remixes.
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Thank you.
with my wife Jennifer and our first child:
baby daughter Ava Sophia Duke
born Wednesday March 28, 2007 1:20am
7lbs 8ounces; 21 inches
my wife Jennifer with our "boys" Oscar and Grover 12 June 2006
with my best friend Jason Trenholm in St. John's Newfoundland
