Daniel Blinkhorn

Residence: Coogee, Sydney, Australia

daniel is a composer and digital media artist who was born in the Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney. He has studied composition as well as music education at a number of universities including the University of New England, University of Griffith, University of Wollongong and the Australian Institute of Music and has a BMus (Hons), MMus and a MA(R)…

daniel’s works have been performed at numerous international events including: ICMC, ACMC, FEMF, Diffusion 2006, Biennale Music en Scene (GRAME), Unruly Music: Peck School of the Arts, BEAF, International Symposium of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, Empirical Soundings, InsideOut and Full Sail, with his works for video exhibited at Festival Internacional de Vídeo y Artes Digitales, Spain, Cologne OFF II, Cologne, PI5 Video Festival — National Museum Szczecin/ Poland, 2nd Digital Art Festival, Rosario/Argentina, 8th CHROMA, Festival de Arte Audiovisual, Mexico, Victory Media Arts, Dallas and the IPFF…

In 2006 daniel was awarded 2nd prize in the Diffusion 2006 International Competition for Electroacoustic Music Composition (RTÉ Lyric FM/ Centre for Computational Musicology and Computer Music, Ireland)
He was an artist in residence at the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Florida, two of his work’s were preselected at the 33^e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourge, residence category,
one of his works was selected as part of the Australian National Selection for representation at the ISCM (World Music Days, 2007) and he was awarded an honourable mention for the originality of the score in the XXV Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Originale per Banda, Italia…

As well as lecturing and composing daniel is currently completing a Doctorate at the University of Wollongong and a Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of New England…

Date: August 27, 2005

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