Daniel Dettwiler

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Daniel Dettwiler (* 1974 in Zurich ) is a Swiss musician , composer and sound engineer . He lives with his family in Baselland , has been running the Idea and Sound Studio in Basel since 2005 and lectures at the Basel University of Music and the Zurich University of the Arts .

Daniel Dettwiler in his studio "Idea and Sound"

Live and act

Early years

Daniel Dettwiler founded HD Musicproduction with Willy Honegger in 1992 . He mixed the 1993 album Human Bomb by Neil Filby for the Jecklin label. In 1995 he composed the music for the SRF documentary by Fritz Muri about K1 world champion Andy Hug , Vom Rocky zum Samurai . Together with oboist and conductor Burkhard Glaetzner , he performed the piece Action-Reaction (for oboe, tape and synthesizer) at the Berlin Biennale in 1997 . From 1996 to 2001 he studied audio design at the Basel University of Music . Towards the end of 2005 he worked for ten months at Fabrica , the Benetton Communication & Research Center. There he composed and realized the sound installation Crickets On My Back in 2001 for the inauguration of the new Fabrica building .

Studio

After completing his studies in 2002, Daniel Dettwiler founded the sole proprietorship “Idea & Klang Dettwiler”, and a little later he opened the “Idea and Sound Studio”. In 2005, the "Idea and Sound GmbH" was founded together with Ramon De Marco (today "Idea and Sound Audiodesign GmbH"). Among other things, the CADAC G-Series mixer was used .

Acoustic music

As a sound engineer, Daniel Dettwiler specialized in acoustic music, especially in the field of jazz and world music , but also classical music and singer / songwriter . Long-term collaborations with Niki Reiser , David Klein , Kolsimcha and Christian Zehnder followed . Klein's quintet CD My Marilyn , released in 2001, was also Dettwiler's first major jazz production. The production Selma with Herbert Grönemeyer , Xavier Naidoo , as well as the CDs by Jasmin Tabatabai , What do you say to people when you are sad and a woman , were realized by Daniel Dettwiler on behalf of David Klein. For the band Kolsimcha Dettwiler realized several CDs, including a. also in the Abbey Road Studio .

Film music

As sound engineer, Daniel Dettwiler realized the soundtracks for Swiss and German films, such as 2005 Alles auf Zucker! , 2009 In winter a year . In 2010, 180 ° - When Your World Is Suddenly Upside down was awarded the prize for the best film music at the Locarno International Film Festival , in 2011 Das Blaue vom Himmel was awarded the Film Music Prize of the SUISA Foundation ; Heidi received the same honor in 2016 . For a complete list see the list on Idea and Klang Studio .

Composer and audio designer

From 2005 Daniel Dettwiler was involved in various audio design projects together with Ramon De Marco. In 2010 the team was responsible for the composition and implementation of the 720 ° Magic Box display as part of the Expo 2010 in Shanghai . In 2008 they created an audio design for the BMW Museum in Munich as part of the exhibition concept, which included the architecture, product design and media design for an overall presentation around the history of the BMW brand. Between 2005 and 2008 De Marco and Dettwiler composed a jingles package for DRS3 (now SRF 3). In 2010 the order for the new acoustic layout for DRS2 followed . For this purpose, they composed a sound design with sounds from over 20 improvising musicians, which wanted to stand out clearly from conventional acoustic branding in terms of development and performance . In the course of the merger of Swiss television with Swiss radio and the associated name change to SRF 2 Kultur, the composer duo adapted all existing jingles to the new name. In 2013, De Marco and Dettwiler won the competition to redesign the logo of the Swiss television news program Rendez-Vous , which they put into practice with a small orchestra. In 2009 they composed a sound design for VW Autostadt with touchscreens several meters high and structure-borne sound transducers that generate haptic feedback . In 2014, Ideen und Klang won the competition for the auditory rebranding of Swiss Satelite Radio, consisting of the three channels Swiss Jazz, Swiss Classic and Swiss Pop from Swiss Radio and Television ( SRF ), with the new sound layout based on a combination of music and Sound design continued.

Musician and interpreter

Daniel Dettwiler also worked as a pianist on various film scores (including 2012 for Die Abenteuer des Huck Finn , 2015 for Heidi , 2018 for Der Junge muss auf fresh air ). As an audio designer, he produced the binaural sound design for Beat Gysin's Marienglas in 2010, which he also performed live in 2010, 2011 and 2015. In 2005 he created the audio design for Behind a Glass Wall , also by Beat Gysin, which he also performed live. In 2000 and 2001, during his time at Fabrica, he worked as a sound designer at various concerts for Andrea Molino's Those Who Speak In A Faint Voice , a. a. with David Moss, here too he interpreted the sound design live. At the same time he was responsible for the music and sound design of the play The Left Hand of Glenn Gould in collaboration with students from the "Institute for Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen " under the direction of Molino and Heiner Goebbels . The piece was performed in 2001 in Giessen, London and Taormina (Sicily, I). In 1997 he created the sound design for Voice Control by Thomas Kessler .

Teaching and Research

Dettwiler has been teaching sound engineering at the Basel University of Music since 2003, and at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2015 , in the sound engineering and FTM faculties (film, theater and media music). Dettwiler has been involved in the FHNW's “Swiss Cultural Challenge” since 2016, either as a mentor or as a jury member. Since 2016 he has been involved in EMPA's Micro Wood violin project , where he is responsible, among other things, for planning and performing hearing tests. He also gives lectures all over Europe , including at the VDT Tonmeistertagung (2012), as well as at various university and company events. In 2018 he was awarded the title of professor by the Basel School of Music. In 2013 Daniel Dettwiler wrote the article creating sound spaces for the architecture magazine TEC21 .

Prizes and awards

  • 2005: “audiophile CD of the month” by Audio magazine , for CD Selma - Wrapped in Sehnsucht
  • 2006: "Album of the month", Jazz Culture editorial team, for Stop & Go (Rusconi Trio), due to the excellent musical and sonic quality ("Magic of sound from Switzerland")
  • 2007: Silver Award from the Japanese Jazz Critique Magazine for “particularly good sound” on the CD Never Let Me Go by Robert Lakatos
  • 2012: Echo Jazz , for CD Eine Frau

Selection of albums mixed by Daniel Dettwiler

year title the artist
2000 Second step Andy Scherrer Quartet
2001 My Marilyn David Klein Quintet
2002 Strings & Rumba "Live Together" Stephan Kurmann Strings & Los Muñequitos De Matanzas
2003 Remember Mal Waldron Andy Scherrer Quartet
2005 Selma - wrapped in longing Kolsimcha - The World Quintet
2007 Kraah Christian Zehnder
2008 Affinity Nils Wogram ’s Nostalgia
2009 The Five Elements Vol. 1 Ania Losinger / Matthias Eser
2009 One Up Down Left Right Rusconi
2009 Different worlds ARTE Quartet
2011 A woman Jasmin Tabatabai
2013 Oloid Christian Zehnder & Gregor Hilbe
2014 ZINC Hans Feigenwinter
2014 Stories Carlo Mombelli
2014 Whim Of Fate Hans Feigenwinter ZINC
2016 To the light Stefan Aeby Trio
2016 Stay there Jorge Rossy
2017 You are here Fred Frith
2017 Extra time Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio
2017 Sounds Between Falling Leaves Lisette Spinnler
2017 Sledge William Evans, Donat Fisch , Bänz Oester , Jorge Rossy , Andy Scherrer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Wohlich: The cook of sounds . in: baz, from February 15, 2008
  2. ↑ Andy Hug: From Rocky to Samurai. Retrieved July 3, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sylvie Frei: A queen among consoles . in: Professional Audio , 2016
  4. ↑ Marc Krebs: How an English cult mixer found its way to Basel . in TagesWoche , 2016
  5. ↑ Daniel Dettwiler: Obsessed with good manners . in Professional Audio , 2016
  6. ↑ Fabrice Müller: "My job is to restore the mysticism of music" . In: BACKSTAGE , 2017.
  7. ↑ Music Production Delux in: Bonusbox recording magazine, 2017
  8. ^ Sylvie Frei: Great sound adventure . in: Professional Audio , 2014
  9. ↑ Joerg Sunderkötter: Special Orchestra Recording . in: Sound & Recording, 2013
  10. ↑ Daniel Dettwiler: Creating sound spaces. In: the architecture magazine TEC21 , issue 17, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Dettwiler, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss musician, composer, sound designer, sound engineer and sound engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich