Christian Duka is a sound artist, musician and spatial audio engineer based in Bologna. His solo practice for electric guitar explores the body resonance and edge tones of a self-built instrument — those fragile margins where instrumental gesture dissolves into the very matter of the signal. The guitar is treated as a vibrating organism and as a transducer: a surface through which to listen to electromagnetic forces, parasitic frequencies and the micro-instabilities that normally remain below the threshold of musical attention.
Artistic director and co-founder of Amoenus, Christian has worked for years on immersive listening and Ambisonics systems, developing installations and performances that weave together psychoacoustics, environmental data sonification and deep listening traditions. His curatorial work includes the Sonic Garden and Kopshti Zanor event series. He has collaborated with artists including John Butcher, Ute Kanngiesser, Sharon Gal and Marco Maldarella (MARMO), and his research moves across experimental electronics, improvisation, participation and ecological thought.
Performance
Christian will be exploring Éliane Radigue’s composition Jetsun Mila with the electric guitar setting it in resonance to create morphing drones and live granular synthesis as a method of layering.
