Andy Scott Duncan Born (20 May 1975) was a founding member of the Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

 band OK Go

OK Go

OK Go is a rock band originally from Chicago, Illinois, USA, now residing in Los Angeles, California, USA. The band is composed of Damian Kulash , Tim Nordwind , Dan Konopka and Andy Ross , who joined them in 2005, replacing Andy Duncan...

, playing lead guitar

Guitar

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 and keyboard

Keyboard instrument

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s. He appears on their first two albums, the eponymous OK Go

OK Go (album)

OK Go is the debut album by the Chicago rock band OK Go. It was released in September 2002. The cover was created by the well known designer Stefan Sagmeister.-Track listing:-Appearances in other media:...

and its follow-up album Oh No

Oh No

-Miscellaneous:* The band's cheaply-produced yet elaborately choreographed videos for "Here It Goes Again" and "A Million Ways" have become YouTube staples - particularly the video for the former song, featuring the band dancing on treadmills - and have done much to propel the songs, the album, and...

. 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, Philip Bastiaan Koch of Marauder Films, to name a few.

He was in the band from Chicago, Parks & Gardens with Joshua R. Davison and Nathan T. Tucker (formerly of the band String Theory

String Theory (band)

String Theory was an electronic music band from Chicago that existed from 1997 until 2005. The members were Joshua R. Davison and Nathan T. Tucker...

). He also played bass on the Frodus

Frodus

Frodus was a 1990s Washington, D.C.-based post-hardcore band, described by critics as a mixture of math rock, hardcore punk, and alternative rock. Their songs were frequently dark and dissonant...

 album Fireflies released in 1995. He produced music for the Seahorse Liberation Army (SLA). And contributed many tracks to the Harpo Music Library.

Most recently he scored and sound designed the new media interactive iPad graphic novel 'Project Ajax' produced by Cognito Comics of San Francisco.

Duncan studied classical guitar and music theory at Northwestern University, and graduated with a Degree in Academic Studies of Music in 1998.

Andy Duncan's father, Dr. Jim Duncan, is a Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineering

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 professor at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

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