John Duncan and Torturing Nurse
2025
CD available from 21 November 2025
WV Sorcerer Productions proudly presents Glass Mind, a new collaborative work between sonic provocateur John Duncan and Shanghai’s long-running harsh noise unit Torturing Nurse.
A towering figure in experimental music and performance since the late 1970s, Duncan has carved an uncompromising path across psychoacoustic research, shortwave manipulation, and extreme live actions. On Glass Mind, his cold, surgically precise synth work is pushed into volatile terrain by Torturing Nurse’s raw sonic aggression — a brutalist dialogue between neurological chaos and audio violence.
Across seven tracks, including one long-form descent and six sharp aftershocks, Glass Mind charts a fractured inner landscape where perception unravels and identity dissolves. Five female vocalists contribute ghostly, fragmented presences, echoing through a clinical storm of static, feedback, and convulsive frequencies.
A confrontation of two methods: rupture and control.
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releases November 21, 2025
Sound material made by John Duncan & Junky
Voices by Zheng Ke 鄭珂 on track III, T.S. from Xixax on track IV, Coveryeye on track V, Yellow Wasabi on track VI, Abbie XT Li on track VII
Mixed by John Duncan & Junky
Mastered by Thomas Stadnicki
CD cover photography by John Duncan, Mei Zhiyong 梅志勇, and Ruò Tán 若潭
Design & layout by Ruò Tán 若潭
Live photography by Gregorio Samsaro 无用