Nick Didkovsky

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. He is a co-owner of the "$100 Guitar", a guitar which was circulated amongst many musicians (including Alex Skolnick, Fred Frith, and Nels Cline) for the recording of a concept album about the guitar.

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