Duncan MacLeod is an award-winning composer and sound artist working across concert music, sound installations and participatory arts. Informed by folklore and sociopolitical issues, his work explores sound as material, narrative and cultural expression. Often working interdisciplinarily with other artforms and disciplines, he combines music composition and sound art with an emphasis on experimentation, hybridity and collaboration.
Duncan’s work has been commissioned and performed internationally by leading institutions and ensembles including the Arditti Quartet, Fretwork, London Sinfonietta, Muziekgebouw (Amsterdam), Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, and Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA), and presented at major festivals such as Bang on a Can, Gaudeamus, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, sound and Nordic Music Days. His work has been regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3, Deutschlandfunk,
Radiophrenia and Resonance FM. He is Professor of Sonic Arts at the Glasgow School of Art.
