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Curd Duca (born 14 March 1955) is an Austrian musician, composer and producer of electronic music.

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Life and Work [link]

He has played (1982–1991) in the experimental groups “Auch wenn es seltsam kingen mag / even though it may sound strange)“,“8 ODER 9 / 8 OR 9“ and “Skin“ (accordion, guitar, vocals, percussion).[1] Starting in 1992, he has been working mainly on solo projects with electronic instruments (analog and digital synthesizers, computer).

Curd Duca is known for his work with audio samples (i.e. snippets of digitized audio material) that get altered, cut-up and "re-contextualised" (cut-up artist - Spin Magazine). The audio is taken from analog sources (acoustic instruments, orchestras, vocals, noise, bird calls, et al.) and mostly used without beats. Rhythmic structures are created, originally by loops, more recently by micro-cuts and improvisation with parameters of "granular synthesis".[2] From 1996, his albums were released on the experimental/techno label Mille Plateaux.

Genre / style (All-Music.com database): instrumental, electronic, lounge, ambient, sample-based, contemporary, experimental, clicks & cuts, cinematic, electro-acoustic ...

Moods: melancholy, eerie, nocturnal, hypnotic, laid-back, mellow, trippy, ethereal ...

Albums [link]

  • easy listening 1
  • easy listening 2
  • easy listening 3
  • easy listening 4
  • easy listening 5 (LP, CD Normal, Bonn 1992 - 1997)
  • switched-on wagner - "Richard Wagner compositions transformed beyond recognition" (CD Mille Plateaux, Frankfurt 1996)
  • elevator 1
  • elevator 2 (vocals: Carin Feldschmid)
  • elevator 3 (vocals: Carin Feldschmid) - (LP, CD Mille Plateaux, Frankfurt 1998 - 2000).

Compilations [link]

  • Modulation & Transformation 3 (Mille Plateaux)
  • Modulation & Transformation 4 (Mille Plateaux)
  • Clicks & Cuts (Mille Plateaux)
  • The Wire Tapper 5 (The Wire Magazine, London)
  • The Eclectic Sound Of Vienna 2 (Spray)
  • Mind The Gap vol 20 (Gonzo Circus)
  • In memoriam - Max Brand (rhiz)

Reviews [link]

De-bug, Spex (Berlin), Die Zeit (Hamburg), skug, Der Standard (Vienna), The Wire (London), actuel, nova (F), Spin, CMJ, Grooves (USA), Zürcher Tagesanzeiger (CH), Wired (Japan), et al.

Concerts [link]

Vienna (rhiz, flex), Berlin (Volksbühne / Red Salon), Munich (Ultraschall), Zürich (Rote Fabrik), London (sprawl), Barcelona (Sónar), New York (ACNY), Miami (MLP), Luxembourg (Mudam), et al.

Various [link]

Music for films: Flaming Ears (Scheirl, Pürrer, Schipek, first screening 1990 in New York), The Subversion Agency (Mark Boswell, 2004), et al.

Music for exhibitions: telepolis (Luxembourg, 1995), Installation Hedy Lamarr (ars electronica, 1998), "Dark Matter" by Eva Grubinger at baltic, Gateshaed, GB 2003), Videos by Ingeborg Strobl (2007).

Works for ORF Kunstradio / Art Radio: voices / cut-up hitler (1998), net/language (1999, with Armin Medosch)[3]

He has been involved with the school of poetry (sfd.at), Vienna as a teacher and lecturer for sound poetry.[4]

External links [link]

References [link]

  1. ^ https://www.sra.at/person/5253
  2. ^ https://www.angbase.com/interviews/curd_duca.html
  3. ^ https://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/ducabio.html
  4. ^ https://sfd.at/lehren-und-lernen/faculty/curd-duca

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Quiet Nights

Quiet Nights may refer to:

  • Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album), a 1964 jazz album by Miles Davis and Gil Evans
  • Quiet Nights (Django Bates album), a 1998 jazz album by Django Bates
  • Quiet Nights (Diana Krall album), a 2009 jazz album by Diana Krall
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    Quiet Nights (Diana Krall album)

    Quiet Nights is the tenth studio album by Canadian jazz singer-songwriter and pianist Diana Krall, released on March 31, 2009 by Verve Records. The album marks Krall's first work with arranger Claus Ogerman since 2002's Live in Paris, and her first studio work with Ogerman since 2001's The Look of Love. In 2010, the title track earned Claus Ogerman the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s).

    The album's title comes from the English-language title of the bossa nova standard "Corcovado", written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and first made popular in the early 1960s. The title track is one of three selections written or co-written by Jobim. Krall had previously included the Jobim-penned "How Insensitive" ("Insensatez") on her 2006 release From This Moment On, and performed Jobim's "The Boy from Ipanema" with Rosemary Clooney on the latter's 2000 album Brazil.

    Commercial performance

    Quiet Nights debuted at number three on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 24,000 copies in its first week. Five weeks later, the album peaked at number two with 11,000 units in sales. In the United States, it sold 104,000 copies to debut at number three on the Billboard 200 and at number one on the Top Jazz Albums, becoming Krall's ninth number-one album on the latter chart. In mainland Europe, the album reached the top spot in Hungary, Poland, and Portugal and charted inside the top five in Austria, France, Greece, Norway, and Spain, as well as on the pan-European chart. It also debuted on the New Zealand RIANZ chart at number two. In late 2009, Billboard ranked Quiet Nights at number twenty-five on the Top Jazz Albums decade-end chart of the 2000s.

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    Quiet Nights (Miles Davis and Gil Evans album)

    Quiet Nights is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, and his fourth album collaboration with Gil Evans, released in 1964 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 2106 and CS 8906 in stereo. Recorded mostly at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in Manhattan, it is the final album by Davis and Evans.

    Background

    Keeping to his standard procedure at Columbia to date of alternating small group records and big band studio projects with Gil Evans, Davis entered the studio with Evans to follow up the latest studio LP by the working quintet, Someday My Prince Will Come. In 1961, Davis had also released his first live albums, two independent LPs entitled Friday Night at the Blackhawk and Saturday Night at the Blackhawk, in addition to the studio set. Another live set from 1961, Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall, also with both the quintet and a large ensemble conducted by Evans was issued in 1962.

    The genesis of this Davis/Evans album, however, encountered far greater difficulties than its three predecessors. Bossa nova had recently become a commercial success in 1962 with the single "Desafinado" from the album Jazz Samba by Stan Getz, and Columbia executives may have pressured Davis and Evans to attempt something similar with this album. Sessions were also protracted over long stretches of time.

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    Curd Duca

    ALBUMS

    Elevator 3: Digitalanalog Mood Music

    Released 2000

    Elevator 2: Electro-acoustic Mood Music

    Released 1999

    Elevator: Electronic Mood Music

    Released 1998

    Easy Listening 5

    Released 1997

    Easy Listening 4

    Released 1996

    Switched-On Wagner

    Released 1996

    Easy Listening 3

    Released 1994

    Easy Listening 2

    Released 1993

    Easy Listening

    Released 1992
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    Quiet Nights

    by: Diana Krall

    Quiet nights of quiet stars, quiet chords from my guitar
    Floating on the silence that surrounds us
    Quiet thoughts and quiet dreams, quiet walks by quiet streams
    And a window looking on the mountains and the sea, how lovely
    This is where I want to be, here with you so close to me
    Until the final flicker of life's ember
    I who was lost and lonely believing life was only
    A bitter tragic joke, have found with you
    The meaning of existence, oh, my love
    This is where I want to be, here with you so close to me
    Until the final flicker of life's ember
    I who was lost and lonely believing life was only
    A bitter tragic joke, have found with you
    The meaning of existence, oh, my love




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