Kaj Duncan David is a composer and performer of electronic music living in Berlin. He has released two solo albums, All Culture Is Dissolving (2021) and Only birds know how to call the sun and they do it every morning (2025). He has created soundtracks for dance pieces by Michelle Moura and other choreographers and has composed two large-scale, collaborative music theatre works, including the prize-winning Up Close and Personal with Troels Primdahl and Daniel Gloger (2018) for the Münchener Biennale für neues Musiktheater. His scored, audiovisual pieces for groups such as ensemble mosaik (Berlin) and Scenatet (Copenhagen) have been performed at festivals including Manifeste (Paris), Spor (Aarhus), Wien Modern, Maerzmusik (Berlin), MATA (New York), Música Estranha (São Paulo). Most recently, Kaj created - together with Rodrigo Lemos - the soundtrack to Michelle Moura's tão carne quanto pedra (2025), commissioned by the São Paulo City Ballet. He studied sound art, composition and electronic music at Goldsmiths (University of London) and the music academies in Aarhus and Dresden and is a recipient of grants including the Young Academy Fellowship (Akademie der Künste, Berlin), Progetto Positano (Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung) and INHABIT (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt).

INHABIT artist in residence / Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics / 2025
Progetto Positano grant recipient / Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung / 2022
fellow of the JUNGE AKADEMIE / Akademie der Künste Berlin / 2019
stipend in support of continued artistic practice / Berlin Senate Department of Culture / 2019
Special Recognition Award for the work Up Close and Personal / Danish Arts Council / 2019
Talent Award / Carl Nielsen and Anne-Marie Carl Nielsen Foundation / 2018
regular stipends in support of continued artistic practice / Danish Arts Council / 2017-2022
Make Sound Residency / Inter Arts Centre Malmö / 2017