Nick Didkovsky
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Nick Didkovsky (born 1958) is a composer, guitarist, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. He is a former student of Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros and Gerald Shapiro.
Didkovsky has developed a Java music API called JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). 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.
Didkovsky has composed for or performed on a number of CDs including:
- 1997
- Every Screaming Ear, Label: Cuneiform (January 21, 1997)
- Ayaya Moses, with the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
- Binky Boy
- 1999, Upbeat, with the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
- 2000, Ereia, with Doctor Nerve and the Sirius String Quartet
- 2003, Bone - uses wrist grab, with Hugh Hopper and John Roulat
Didkovsky's music has also been arranged by the experimental music group Electric Kompany.
[edit] References
- Dickenson, J. Andrew: "Electric Counterpoint", Urban Guitar, July 2006
- Ross Feller, Ice Cream Time: The Raunchy and the Rigorous [1]
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