Nick Didkovsky is a composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, computer music programmer, and leader of the band Doctor Nerve. He is a former student of Christian Wolff

Christian Wolff (composer)

Christian G. Wolff is an American composer of experimental classical music.-Biography:Wolff was born in Nice in France to German literary publishers Helen and Kurt Wolff, who had published works by Franz Kafka, Robert Musil, and Walter Benjamin. After relocating to the U.S...

, Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros

Pauline Oliveros is an American accordionist and composer who is a central figure in the development of post-war electronic art music....

 and Gerald Shapiro

Gerald Shapiro

This article is about the author. Gerald Shapiro was an American writer who had published three prize-winning books and was Cather Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. He was also a reader for Prairie Schooner. He lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife, the writer Judith...

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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

JSyn

JSyn is a free API for developing interactive sound applications in Java. Developed by Phil Burk and others, it is distributed through Burk's company, SoftSynth...

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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
    Fred Frith Guitar Quartet
    The Fred Frith Guitar Quartet was a United States-based contemporary classical and experimental music guitar quartet comprising Fred Frith, René Lussier, Nick Didkovsky and Mark Stewart...
    
    
  • 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
  Hugh Hopper
  Hugh Colin Hopper was a progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member of Soft Machine and various other related bands.-Early career:...
  
   and John Roulat

Didkovsky's music has also been arranged by the experimental music

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 group Electric Kompany

Electric Kompany

Electric Kompany is an American band that was formed by Kevin R. Gallagher. By exploring, arranging, and commissioning music for guitar, keyboard, drums, and bass, the group mixes classical and rock music in a genre that has been described as Art rock, Experimental Music, Avant-Progressive, or...

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External links

• Doctor Nerve Home Page
• JMSL Home Page
• Interview with New Sounds