Nick Didkovsky

Last updated
Nick Didkovsky
NickDguitar.png
Nick Didkovsky at The Stone
Background information
Born (1958-11-22) 22 November 1958 (age 66)
Genres Progressive rock
Years active1984–present
Website www.didkovsky.com

Nick Didkovsky (born 22 November 1958) is a composer, guitarist, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. [1] He is a former student of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros and Gerald Shapiro. [1]

Contents

Career

Didkovsky formed Doctor Nerve in 1984. [2] He received a master's degree in Computer Music from New York University in 1987 and went on to develop a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). [3] JMSL is a toolbox for algorithmic composition and performance. JMSL includes JScore, an extensible staff notation editor. JMSL can output music using either JavaSound or JSyn. [4] He has presented papers on his work at several conferences. [1]

Ensemble activities include founding the blackened grindcore band Vomit Fist in 2013. [5] He was a composing member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet for the ten years of the band's tenure, and has also played in John Zorn's band. [1] His Punos Music [6] record label is a harbor for his more extreme musical projects such as "split", [7] a guitar collaboration with Dylan DiLella of the technical death metal band Pyrrhon [8] [ circular reference ].

His debut solo album was released in 1997 and featured contributions from Frith. [9] His second album, Body Parts, came out of a collaboration with Guigou Chenevier. [10]

Didkovsky has composed for or performed on a number of CDs including:

Didkovsky's music has also been arranged by the experimental music group Electric Kompany. He is a co-owner of the "$100 Guitar", a guitar which was circulated amongst many musicians (including Alex Skolnick, Fred Frith, and Nels Cline) for the recording of a concept album about the guitar. [12]

Solo discography

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 Dorsch
  2. ↑ Taylor, Graham "Doctor Nerve" in Buckley, Peter (1999) The Rough Guide to Rock, Rough Guides, ISBN   978-1858284576, pp. 302-3
  3. ↑ Didkovsky, Nick & Burk, Philip L. "Java Music Specification Language, an Introduction and Overview", in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Computer Music Association, 2001, p. 123
  4. ↑ Dean, Roger T. (2009) The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music, OUP USA, ISBN   978-0195331615, p. 127
  5. ↑ "Vomit Fist - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives".
  6. ↑ "Punos Music".
  7. ↑ "C H O R D / Dylan DiLella - "split"".
  8. ↑ Pyrrhon (band)
  9. ↑ Jurek
  10. ↑ Couture
  11. ↑ Schultze, Tom "Upbeat" in Bogdanov, Vladimir et al (2002) All Music Guide to Jazz: The Definitive Guide to Jazz, Backbeat Books, ISBN   978-0879307172, p. 443
  12. ↑ Kozinn, Allan (2013) "A Generic Guitar Inspires a Distinctive Project", The New York Times , April 2, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2014

Sources

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.