Kaj Duncan David is a composer and performer of experimental 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). A third, manual music, latent text is forthcoming on raster media. Scenic composition and music for the stage is a major part of his practice. In 2025 and 2026 he composed music for two dance works by Michelle Moura commissioned by the São Paulo City Ballet, tão carne quanto pedra (in collaboration with Rodrigo Lemos) and até que se abra tudo. He has scored two large-scale, collaborative music theatre works, including the award-winning Up Close and Personal with Troels Primdahl and Daniel Gloger (2018) for the Münchener Biennale für neues Musiktheater. His notated, 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). 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 / 2017-2025