Marc Hurtado + John Duncan

John Duncan (b. 1953, Wichita, Kansas) is an American multi-platform artist lives and works in Bologna, Italy. Having studied at CalArts, Duncan's practice has explored the cutting edge of performance, video, experimental music, installation, pirate radio and television. In the 1970’s. His work often addresses issues of power, authority, and control, often involving elements of personal risk and danger. Duncan played a pivotal role in the development of performance art in Los Angeles, of experimental music as a member of the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), and of Japanese noise and pirate radio in Tokyo. His collaborations, iterations and performances live and documented are numerous. For years he has been an explorer and navigator of short wave radio, employing it’s varying textures into his own compositions.

His music and performance work has been presented at Nicodim Gallery (Bucharest and Los Angeles), Fylkingen, Gallery Niklas Belenius, ZKM, MAK (Vienna), MOT (Tokyo), MACBA (Barcelona), Super Deluxe (Tokyo), CCA Kitakyushu, MOCA, KPFK, The Getty Center, and The Box (Los Angeles), L’Arsenic and LUFF (Lausanne), Raum, Netmage, Decadence and Angelica (Bologna), Ars Electronica and the 2nd Gothenburg Biennial.

Marc Hurtado (b. 1962, Rabbat, Morocco) is a a key figure in the French experimental music scene. He is one half of the French experimental duo Étant Donnés with his brother Éric Hurtado. He is also a producer, poet, visual artist and filmmaker.

Hurtado (sometimes with his project Étant Donnés), has collaborated with Alan Vega , Michael Gira , Genesis P-Orridge , trumpeter Mark Cunningham and Lydia Lunch in 2016 on the album My Lover the Killer. He also composed and produced the music for the films: Hotel by Jessica Hausner and Memento Mori by Mathieu Dufois, Met , Grenoble by Philippe Grandrieux and it was during the production of the soundtrack for the feature film La Vie nouvelle in 2002, and again by Philippe Grandrieux, that Marc Hurtado founded the Sol ixent project .

Serpents enlacés  is the sound of heaven and earth mating, the tearing of a bird's wings burned by the sound waves of space, the wail of a cicada drowning in the black water of a torrent. An infinite night, an infinite sun, an infinite construction, an infinite destruction. Everything is in everything, and nothing is in this everything.

The path of the visible is the voice of the invisible.

Motionless, invisible, the sound feeds on its own atomic explosion. Two serpents ignite, two serpents embrace, two serpents devour each other, two serpents become one infinite serpent.

Eternity and infinity, intertwined in the blood of sound, in the sound of blood.