He's actually very influential on me. It's enough to be a wierdo, a good salesman of casual music notes, a recycler of someone else's ideas, a career man suddenly bitten by the art-tarantula In such a scene, a true artist such as John Duncan lives at certain levels, almost as an unknown to those who are used to buying records basing their decision on organized ad campaigns. Duncan is truthful because all that he does is sincerely directed at the core of the soul: he is a performer of events that are as distinctive as possible, he creates environments and installations, directs films.
And he produces important music, much better and more stunning than most of the trash that the postindustrial avant-garde feeds to their public. The music greats have the highest opinion of Duncan: Jim O'Rourke has quoted some of Duncan's records among his absolute favorites.
Here, then, we're talking about an artist who has really devoted his life to creativity, study and continuous evolution, both artistically and as a human being.
Strangely enough, Duncan lives in Italy: he has his own reasons as he explains in the interview , but I cannot avoid thinking about the oddness of the situation; a land that, as far as evolution is concerned is for sure the least in the world, is now hosting a person whose researches have opened many roads, some of which have yet to be noticed.
This article is my personal homage to one of the musicians that I most admire, and with it I would like to stimulate curiosity in those who still do not know John. In the video installation CAST is made. As can be seen, an artist who doesn't know rest Music "'My music is not made to be described', says Duncan.
