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Andrew Duke news July 6, 2005:
trying to do these updates monthly, but get so busy that it doesn't always happen;
now have a page on myspace.com

scoring/sound design news:
--completed sound design commissions for Sound Ideas (Canada; the world's largest publisher of professional sound effects and royalty free music) and Computer Music (UK)
--sound design featured on Freesound Project (Spain), Native Instruments (Germany), and Archipel (Canada)

album news:
--Versions Plus (Cognition Audioworks) now serviced to select international radio and net stations; this is a promo-only release of recent remixes I've done (of Vancouver's House Of Orange, Fredericton's Gary Flanagan, Halifax's Heavy Meadows, England's Phonopsia, Macedonia's Sound 00, and Vancouver's Souns), remixes of my material by others (including Montreal's I8U and David Kristian), and some recent music in a variety of styles
--Second Opinion (dubby material using field recordings; up and down tempo styles) now out on Montreal's Phoniq; check it out here

compilation news:
--did track for Montreal's Le-Son 666 label (a noise compilation)
--did track for Exquisite Corpse 4 on Xiphoid Process (USA); http://xiphoidprocess.com/ec4/
--East Coast A Go-Go (VVVU Music, Canada) compilation now available with one of my tracks included
--Exquisite Corpse 3 (http://www.minimism.com/ec3) now available with one of my contributions
--did track for Atlantic Film Festival's 2005 Music & Image compilation CD (out in September)

collaboration news:
working with Luis Ortiz (Klitekture, Barcelona Spain)

interview news:
--The Idiot magazine (Halifax) feature now out
--recently interviewed by Electric Atlantic; this feature soon come

live news:
--live sets online from Ottawa (Trio Bistro), Toronto (Labyrinth Lounge), and Montreal (CKUT and Hemisphere Gauche) now online in the listen section

Andrew Duke upcoming live performances:
July 15 @ Atlantic Jazz Festival (Halifax NS) with Andrew Duke Ensemble
July 20 @ Atlantic Jazz Festival (Halifax NS) with Upstream Guerrilla Orchestra
September 2 @ One World Cafe (Halifax NS) with Dan Murray, FDH, and Stokast

April 7, 2005:
so busy in March that I didn't have a chance to do an update

scoring/sound design news:
--2 of the 4 Anti-Racism PSAs I scored (titled "Leave Out Violence" and "Stereotypes") have won awards in the annual national Racism: Stop It! competition and are airing nationally for the next 6 months on TV in Canada: CBC, CTV, Much Music, and Much More Music (they can be viewed on http://www.pch.gc.ca/march-21-mars/hands-mains/10videos_e.cfm)
--scored Stefan Bauer's Ohrmong (he's from Germany; will be released on DVD on Austria's Chmafu)
--scored, sound designed, and produced Sierra Club ad
--Tim McDonough's Passing Through People (I did some sound design for that film and am scoring his upcoming film, Fire & Fog; he's from Saint John) played March 30 in New York;
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
http://www.newfilmmakers.com/calendar/050330.html
--CBC TV will rebroadcast the two part mini-series Sex Traffic Sunday April 17 and Monday April 18 from 8-10pm; two of my songs are featured on the program; I am unsure if/when Sex Traffic will be rebroadcast on BBC TV
--I was recently asked by a major video game company to submit a demo re: scoring a game they are currently developing; will find out what they think of my demo submission in about a month or so; cross your fingers for me! Hey, if Amon Tobin can do it...

album news:
--reviews are starting to come in for my Dead Air Alive album out now on Montreal's Petite Sono; here's one from The Netherland's Vital Weekly that made me smile:
"It's not easy to outline the concept behind this new Andrew Duke CD, but it's part of a bigger work dealing with radio and sound, of which Dead Air Alive is the third part. In radio broadcasting terms, 'dead air' is the sound when there is a lack of broadcast, which Duke considers an oxymoron, since no broadcast doesn't mean no sound. In this one hour opus he works exclusively with the sound of no sound on the air. The input is, hard to believe upon hearing, an hour of jazz music. The long, stretched out static sound has no resemblance to jazz, and maybe to some people, nothing to do with music at all. A very minimal piece of work here, with perhaps subtle changes, but for the bigger part hoovering at Lopezian silence. If the name Andrew Duke only rings bells when it comes to rhythmic, techno-based music, then Dead Air Alive proves otherwise (but then you may not have heard his More Destructive Than Organized on Bake Records). Duke is a multi-faceted talent, proving to do very nice rhythmic stuff but at the same time, he is also capable of producing a more than excellent piece of microsound, along the lines of Francisco Lopez or a less musical, but no less intriguing Stephan Mathieu. Great ambient music here." (Frans de Waard)
--my Second Opinion album (a total contrast to Dead Air Alive in that Second Opinion is rhythm-based) is forthcoming on Montreal's Phoniq, just have to sort out the cover art

compilation news:
--track forthcoming on Polygon Network's Delauney Triangulation and upcoming hip hop project for Love Africa

remix news:
--remixes completed for Poland's Eta Carinae, Macedonia's Sound 00, and Vancouver's Souns

collaboration news:
--collaborated with vocalist Tena Palmer while in Ottawa in mid-March
--2 collaborative tracks with Buenos Aires' Emisor will be released on France's Bip-Hop, two others will be released on Montreal's Hushush; Emisor is performing at this year's Mutek festivals in Mexico and Montreal

interview news:
--Turkey's Basatap magazine interviewed me a while back and this issue has now been published
--new CKDU interview (from the show Inside The Musician's Studio) now online (http://andrew-duke.com/listen.html)
--interviewed by Halifax's The Idiot for their debut issue; interviewed by Cape Breton's Michael Weak (publication info tba)
--will be interviewed soon for a feature on the website TechHouselist.org

live news:
--sets now online performed at Sydney's Maple Leaf and Halifax's Sub Rosa, Stage 9, Khyber, and Reflections (opening for Junior Boys); http://andrew-duke.com/listen.html
--Ottawa, Toronto (with Greg Gow, Arthur Oskan, New York's Annalyze, and Jeff Payne), and Montreal live sets to come (forgot to record Kingston set; Ableton Live and Native Instruments Reaktor workshop there went very well)
--Andrew Duke upcoming live performances:
April 18th @ QEH (Halifax NS) with Upstream Guerrilla Orchestra
April 19th @ Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (Halifax NS) with Upstream Guerrilla
Orchestra
May 5th @ ATV/ASN (Halifax NS) for Breakfast Television with Upstream Guerrilla
Orchestra
May 5th @ NSCAD (Halifax NS) with Upstream Guerrilla Orchestra
May 6th @ Mount St. Vincent's (Halifax NS) for Atlantic Band Festival with Upstream
Guerrilla Orchestra
May 7th @ Mount St. Vincent's (Halifax NS) for Atlantic Band Festival with Upstream
Guerrilla Orchestra
May 14 details tba (Halifax NS)
May 15th @ North Street Church (Halifax NS) for Spring Fever Festival with Upstream
Guerrilla Orchestra

February 18, 2005:
Just a quick update this month as I've
got tons of stuff on my hands right now.
Here's what up with me sound-wise lately:

***upcoming live performances:
(please say "hello" if one of these is in your area
and you make it out for the show; you can
check http://andrew-duke.com for venue updates, and
feel free to email me if you need more information about any
of these performances)
February 18 @ Sub Rosa (Halifax NS) for Future Fusion
February 19 @ Maple Leaf Lounge (Sydney NS) for ECU with Windom Earle and Special Noise
February 22 @ Stage 9 (Halifax NS) with The Sleepless Nights
March 7 @ The Khyber (Halifax NS) for Audio Deviance
March 8 @ Sackville High (Sackville NS) with Upstream Guerilla Orchestra
March 17 @ venue tba (Ottawa ON) with Jason Pelletier
March 18 @ Labyrinth Lounge (Toronto ON) for We Don't Suck with Greg Gow, Arthur Oskan,
Trevor Wilkes, and more
March 19 @ Modern Fuel Gallery (Kingston ON) for performance and music software
(Ableton Live and Native Instruments Reaktor) demo/workshop
March 20 @ l'Hémisphère Gauche (Montreal QC)
March 21 @ venue tba (Quebec City QC)
April 12 @ Maritime Museum Of The Atlantic (Halifax NS) with Upstream Guerilla Orchestra
April 19 @ Maritime Museum Of The Atlantic (Halifax NS) with Upstream Guerilla Orchestra
http://andrew-duke.com/bookings.html and http://andrew-duke.com/course.html for live performance and
music software demo/workshop/tutoring bookings

***scoring and sound design:
--will be doing the sound for the forthcoming film from director Tim McDonough
--just found out that the Anti-Racism PSAs I scored for director Sobaz Benjamin
will be also airing at the Viewfinders International Film Festival For Youth
(http://www.atlanticfilm.com/view/); if my schedule permits, I will be performing
at the launch party for the PSAs' showing

**available for free download/stream in the "listen" section:
(http://andrew-duke.com/listen.html)
--interview: Elling Lien (Radio Free Polygon radio show on CKDU 97.5 FM
in Halifax NS) talking with me about the music industry, live performances
vs. faked ones, the Oscar The Grouch album, and lots more
--album: still available in the listen section is the "Oscar The Grouch (or Yes,
The Dog Ate It)" album (500+ listens so far), as well as an EP, a tribute to
Jhonn Balance (of Coil), and numerous live sets in a variety of styles

**interviews:
--Sue Carter Flinn talked to a number of music industry professionals
on the Canadian east coast (including myself) for her article on the
state of today's music industry in this week's issue of Halifax's weekly,
The Coast; the article can be read online for the next week here:
http://thecoast.ca/feature.html#article2
--and sort of on the interview tip, I'm flattered to find that I will be featured in
Virgin's next edition of their Encyclopedia of Popular Music

**collaboration news:
--Emisor ( Leonardo Ramella from Buenos Aires, Argentina) and I have completed
two tracks to be released on a forthcoming compilation on Montreal's Hush Hush
(http://hushush.com)
--forthcoming collaborations with Alex Pearson and Voodoo Apostles

**remix news:
--have recently remixed House Of Orange (best known for his work on Stickman
Records); along with Mitchell Akiyama, Loscil, and Granny'Ark, I'll soon be
remixing Vancouver's Souns for a release on Kikapu; also will be remixing
David Kristian, Hrdvsion, and The Sleepless Nights in the future

January 21, 2005:

***scoring and sound design:
--just finished scoring 4 anti-racism PSAs
directed by Halifax's Sobaz Benjamin; should
be showing on Canada's CBC, CTV, and
Much Music in the coming months; recorded
quite a broad range of songs--from instrumental
hip hop to instrumental heavy metal

***interview about the Take Nothing For Granted
album and future projects:
--The Vibes (Italy) http://www.thevibes.net/interviews/dukeint.html
--forthcoming interview in Batatap magazine (Turkey)

**added 4 free downloads to the "listen" section
(http://andrew-duke.com/listen.html)
--album (19 tracks): "Oscar The Grouch (or Yes,
The Dog Ate It)" recorded live in Halifax (The Khyber, Salvation)
and Saint John NB (UNBSJ) in 2004 and 2002
--EP (9 tracks) "09X90"
--Translucent In The Stars (a tribute song to
Coil's Jhonn Balance who passed away late in 2004)
--live performance @ JP Blues & Jazz Club Halifax NS
5 January 2005 (downtempo/funky material);
upcoming live performances are listed on the main
page at http://andrew-duke.com

**live performance news:
--I'm continuing my work with the Upstream Guerrilla
Ensemble (2 X vocalists, violin, trumpet, alto/soprano/
sopranino/tenor sax, 3 X flute, clarinet, acoustic and
electric bass, drums, and me on laptop) and we're doing
a series of gigs for the various high schools in the Halifax area
starting in February; I will try to get a recording of one of these
shows and put it online

**new album available:
--"Dead Air Alive" is out now on Montreal's Petite Sono
(http://petitesono.com/catalog.html)

***album news:
--just got the mastered version of Consumer Vs. User,
which will be out on Pasadena California's Phthalo
(http://phthalo.com) as soon as the artwork (by Shawn
King) is done; the album was mastered by Mark
"Vapourspace" Gage--a real thrill because he recorded
one of my favorite electronic music classics ("Gravitation
Arch of 10/Io") way back in the early days on Richie
Hawtin's Plus 8 label
--have recorded a whole bunch of songs for my
forthcoming "Remembering Jason Trenholm" album
(label tbd); probably about 3 album's worth of material,
actually; the pieces are recorded in tribute to my best friend
of 29 years who passed away January 1, 2004

**compilations recently released with tracks from me on 'em:
--The Last Signal (Independent Opposition/USA)
http://independentopposition.com/thelastsignal.html
--Samplicity--One Step Further (Syntezatory/Poland)
http://www.syntezatory.pl/
--Il Programma Di Religione (Boyarm/USA)
http://boyarm.com
--Poetry and Chaos (Chmafu Nocords/Austria)
http://nocords.net/
interestingly, a presentation of this compilation cd
(a presentation of each track, information about
how it was recorded and the artist involved, etc)
will be made at the upcoming Phonem Electronic
Music Festival in Istanbul, Turkey

**collaboration/compilation news:
--through the "power of the internet" I'm currently
working with Emisor ( Leonardo Ramella from Buenos Aires,
Argentina) on two tracks to be released on a forthcoming
compilation on Montreal's Hush Hush (http://hushush.com)

***remixes now available:
--two remixes I did for Halifax's Heavy Meadows (a dub
mix and a funky house mix) were just released on
Heavy Meadows--"Remixes" (Dependent Music/Canada)
http://heavymeadows.ca/
It's a limited release, so if you can't find it for purchase,
please email the band via their site.
--the remix I did for Puerto Rico's Cornucopia has just been
released on Cornucopia's ".c. works" double CD (Zeromoon/USA)
http://zeromoon.com/

And recordings from myself and my Cognition Audioworks
(http://cognitionaudioworks.com) label will soon be available
for purchase digitally on legal download sites such as Apple's
iTunes, eMusic, MSN Music, Musicmatch, Napster, Rhapsody,
Sony, andeven Starbucks soon through the digital distribution
service IODA (http://iodalliance.com)