hearing loss, feeling lost?
Daniel Fishkin’s ears are ringing. Composer, sound artist, and instrument builder. Completely ambivalent about music. Daniel studied with composer Maryanne Amacher and with multi-instrumentalist Mark Stewart. He has performed as a soloist on modular synthesizer with the American Symphony Orchestra, developed sound installations in abandoned concert halls, and played innumerable basement punk shows. Daniel’s lifework investigating the aesthetics of hearing damage has received international press (Nature Journal, 2014); as an ally in the search for a cure, he has been awarded the title of “tinnitus ambassador” by the Deutsche Tinnitus-Stiftung. He is the only luthier that studied with the daxophone’s inventor, Hans Reichel; Daniel’s instruments have traveled the world, and are played everyday by players based in Canada, California, Norway, Germany, France, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Australia. Daniel received his MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University, and has taught courses on instrument design and electronic music at Bard College and the Cooper Union. He is currently a PhD Candidate in Composition and Computer Music at the University of Virginia.
Contact
daniel.fiction AT gmail.com
Bibliography, Written Words, Articles, Media
Essay on the Musical Oscilloscope for the journal eContact
https://econtact.ca/19_2/fishkin_oscilloscope.html
How to build a daxophone: instructional blog series for popular woodworking magazine
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/introducing-the-daxophone/
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/how-to-build-a-daxophone-soundbox/
https://www.popularwoodworking.com/editors-blog/the-mystery-of-the-acoustic-cantilever-building-a-dax-for-your-daxophone/
Composing the Tinnitus Suites: 2008 through 2016 (until death) — From the Society of American Music Bulletin
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.american-music.org/resource/resmgr/docs/bulletin/vol423.pdf
Nature Interview on Tinnitus
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7482/full/505159a.html
KCRW Podcast
http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/the-organist/episode-19-composing-the-tinnitus-suites
Tinnitus Ambassadors!
http://www.deutsche-tinnitus-stiftung-charite.de/en/partners/ambassadors/