Andy Duncan (musician)

Andy Scott Duncan (born 20 May 1975) is an American musician, best known for being a founding member of the Chicago band OK Go, playing lead guitar and keyboards.
He played guitar and keyboards for the early releases of OK Go.
According to the Chicago Tribune, "OK Go began when Nordwind, a bassist, joined guitarist Andy Duncan and drummer Dan Konopka in a Chicago rock band named Stanley's Joyful Noise." Singer Damian Kulash joined in 1998,
Early life and education
Andy Duncan's father, Jim Duncan, is a Mechanical Engineering professor at the University of Maryland. Duncan studied classical guitar and music theory at Northwestern University, and graduated with a degree in Academic Studies of Music in 1998.
Career
OK Go
He played guitar and keyboards for the early releases of OK Go.<ref name="Record Searchlight, 2017"/>
He appears on their first two albums, the eponymous OK Go and its follow-up album Oh No.
According to the Chicago Tribune, "OK Go began when Nordwind, a bassist, joined guitarist Andy Duncan and drummer Dan Konopka in a Chicago rock band named Stanley's Joyful Noise." Singer Damian Kulash joined in 1998,<ref name"Knopper for Chicago Tribune, 2015"/> and Duncan quit afterwards in 2004<ref name"Record Searchlight, 2017"/> and was replaced by Andy Ross.<ref name="Knopper for Chicago Tribune, 2015"/>
Later career
Since leaving the group, he has worked on numerous films and commercials as a sound designer and composer with directors Eric Lynne of Partizan Films, Grzegorz Jonkajtys of Industrial Light and Magic, Bastiaan Koch of Marauder Films.
He was in a band from Chicago, Parks & Gardens, with Joshua R. Davison and Nathan T. Tucker (formerly of the band String Theory).
He also played bass on the Frodus album Fireflies, released in 1995.
After relocating to San Francisco to develop the Seahorse Liberation Army, Duncan produced for Sound Arts studio in San Francisco started by SFAI students. He produced music with the Seahorse Liberation Army (SLA) and Echo Wild, and contributed many tracks to the Harpo Music Library of Opera.
Andy Duncan was also the CFO to the California Art group and S-type corporation Play Play Play, Inc., a fine arts and licensing company in California, from 2010 to 2012. Developing material for an album on Play Play Play, Inc. for a band called Compact 86.
He produced tracks inside the actress Cheryl Millers of Daktari's home for 28 days in 2010 with conceptual artist Erik Seidenglanz to develop Compact 86, still unreleased.
Andy Duncan was the producer for Matt Fishbeck's "You made my dreams come true" 12-inch record, released on Fantasy Trash Can records. The studio recordings were set up for free with partner Erik Seidenglanz to be on Play Play Play, Inc. licensing company; however it never was released on Play Play Play, Inc officially though Andrew owns the copyright.
Alternate versions from the Sound Art sessions exist. Most recently he scored and sound designed the new media interactive iPad graphic novel CIA: Operation Ajax produced by Cognito Comics of San Francisco.
Personal life
Duncan now resides in Los Angeles, California.
Discography
OK Go
*OK Go - guitar, keyboards
*Oh No (2005) - guitar, keyboards
Frodus
*Fireflies by Frodus (1995) - bass

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