Nick Didkovsky

Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, instructor, and pc music programmer. Since 1989, Didkovsky offers used a pc to produce completely orchestrated music for his music group, Doctor Nerve. He offers presented documents on his just work at meetings and has offered in-residence in the Mills University Center for Modern Music with Dartmouth University. Didkovsky studied digital music with composers Christian Wolff (Dartmouth University) and Gerald Shapiro (Dark brown University or college), and received a Experts Degree in pc music from NY University or college in 1987. Didkovsky offers performed with Fred Frith’s Acoustic guitar Quartet and John Zorn’s New Customs in East Asian Club Bands. His function has been highlighted at Manhattan’s Bang ON THE Can Celebration. The Compact disc Transforms: The Nerve Event Project came into being due to 44 “Nerve Occasions” on the physician Nerve Compact disc, Beta 14 Okay. The Nerve Occasions are sound occasions of two to six secs in duration, which listeners should program on the CD players, hence taking part in the producing of music. After Jason Willett and Steve MacLean delivered Didkovsky pieces that they had constructed with the occasions, Didkovsky made a decision to payment over 20 various other artists to send works built in the Nerve Occasions. The means ranged from custom made digital signal digesting and pc manipulation to low-tech sampling and multi-track documenting. Performers included Ted Apel, Thomas Dimuzio, Dave Douglas, Tom Erbe, Tag Howell, Henry Kaiser, Henry Lowengard, Ray Guillette, and Larry Polansky.