Artist: Nick Didkovsky
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Body Parts
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, teacher, and calculator euphony programmer. Since 1989, Didkovsky has victimised a computer to bring about in full orchestrated music for his band, Doctor Nerve. He has presented document on his work at conferences and has served in-residence at the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music and at Dartmouth College. Didkovsky studied electronic music with composers Christian Wolff (Dartmouth College College) and Gerald Shapiro (Brown University), and standard a Masters Degree in computer music from New York University in 1987. Didkovsky has performed with Fred Frith's Guitar Quartet and John Zorn's New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands. His work has been featured at Manhattan's Bang On A Can Festival.
The CD Transforms: The Nerve Event Project came about as a result of 44 "Spunk Events" on the Doctor Nerve CD, Beta 14 Ok. The Nerve Events are sound events of two to six-spot seconds in continuance, which listeners ar bucked up to program on their CD players, so participating in the making of music. After Jason Willett and Steve MacLean sent Didkovsky pieces they had composed with the events, Didkovsky distinct to commission over 20 other artists to submit deeds built on the Nerve Events. The means ranged from customs duty digital signal processing and information processing system handling to low-tech sample and multi-track recording. Artists included Ted Apel, Thomas Dimuzio, Dave Douglas, Tom Erbe, Mark Howell, Henry Kaiser, Henry Lowengard, Ray Guillette, and Larry Polansky.
