Duncan Chapman

Duncan Chapman is a composer and sound artist who regularly works with leading music organisations all over the world. Recent projects include co-directing large-scale participatory performance projects for Casa da Música (Porto) and at the 2018 Sonophilia festival in Lincoln. Other projects include: “Dark Januaries”, an annual personal composition project with Isabel Jones; Performances with Supriya Nagarajan (Manasamitra) for the “lullabies” project in the UK and at the Ultima Festival (Oslo); the Kamppi “Chapel of Silence” (Helsinki) and orchestration of Indian lullabies (Iceland Symphony Orchestra). Duncan is also currently involved in touring “White Cane” (Salamanda Tandem). Recent solo performances include “Lead: Gold” at Listen to the Voice of Fire: Alchemy in Sound Art 2017 (National Library of Wales), “Sonifying myself” at The Music of Sound, a sonification symposium 2017 (Oxford University) and gigs at Weird Garden (Lincoln) and the X-12 all night drone music festival in Gainsborough. “Piddocks” was released on the Linear Obsessional label in October 2018 and an album on the same label is due out in 2019. Current projects include: a performance project for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ongoing work with De Montfort University on the pan-Eu Interfaces project and mentoring two composers (for Sound and Music) writing pieces for the Paraorchestra.