Nick Didkovsky
Nick Didkovsky (born November 22, 1958 in Bronxville ) is an American guitarist and composer.
Didkovsky studied electronic music at Dartmouth College with Christian Wolff and at Brown University with Gerald Shapiro and deepened his studies with Baikida Carroll , Dave Holland and Pauline Oliveros . Since he was primarily interested in translating the principles of computer music into the context of a band oriented towards acoustic play , he founded the experimental rock band Doctor Nerve in 1984 , with which he released numerous albums. In this group, musicians such as Dave Douglas , Rob Henke and Michael Lytle worked alongside him . He also worked with the Sirius String Quartet ( Ereia 2000). He also presented two solo albums ( Now I Do This 1981; Out to Bomb Fresh Kings 1987) and was a member of the guitar quartets Extended Guitars (with Erhard Hirt , Keith Rowe and Hans Tammen) and by Fred Frith as well as in John Zorn's project New Traditions in East Asian Bar Music . With Hugh Hopper he founded the trio Bone in 2003 , which was expanded to a quartet with Daevid Allen . He also played on albums by the Micro-East Collective as well as Bruno Meillier, Fukkeduk and Gitta Schaffer ( Ankle to Nose ).
His compositions were also presented at the Bang on a Can Festival in New York .
Lexical entries
- Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
Web links
- Web presence
- Interview (2010)
- Nick Didkovsky at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jim Dorsch: Biography Nick Didkovsky on Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Michael C. Frengel: Didkovsky, Nicholas [Nick]. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ^ Doctor Nerve
- ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography , online December 6, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Didkovsky, Nick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American guitarist and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 22, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bronxville |