Nick Didkovsky

Nick Didkovsky (born 22 November 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. He received a master's degree in Computer Music from New York University in 1987 and went on to develop 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. He has presented papers on his work at several conferences. He was a composing member of the Fred Frith Guitar Quartet for the ten years of the band's tenure, and has also played in John Zorn's band. record label is a harbor for his more extreme musical projects such as "split", a guitar collaboration with Dylan DiLella of the technical death metal band Pyrrhon .

His debut solo album was released in 1997 and featured contributions from Frith. His second album, Body Parts, came out of a collaboration with Guigou Chenevier.

Didkovsky has composed for or performed on a number of CDs including: 1987, Doctor Nerve Armed Observation, Label: Cuneiform, produced by Fred Frith 1988, Rascal Reporters Happy Accidents 1995, Doctor Nerve SKIN, Label: Cuneiform 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 2015, Vomit Fist Forgive but Avenge 2017 Alice Cooper Paranormal 2019, Vomit Fist Omnicide

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.

Solo discography Now I Do This (1982), Punos Music Binky Boy (1997), Punos Body Parts (2000), Vand'Oeuvre The Bright Lights The Big Time (2005), FMR Tube Mouth Bow String (2006), Pogus The $100 Guitar Project (2013), Bridge Phantom Words (2017), Punos