Daniel Mayer

Daniel Mayer (*1967) is a composer with focus on works including electro-acoustics.

He is active in the fields of sound synthesis and generative computer algorithms, where he is developing dedicated software. His music has been performed at international festivals of electronic and contemporary music and was rewarded with the Giga-Hertz production prize for electronic music 2007 at Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM).

He studied pure mathematics and philosophy at the University of Graz (MSc, MPhil) and music composition (MA) with Gerd Kühr at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, and in 2001/02 studied at the electronic studio of the Music Academy of Basel, with Hanspeter Kyburz.

Since 2011 works at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz/IEM, and in 2011-2014 collaborated within the FWF-funded artistic research project Patterns of Intuition, since October 2016 is visiting professor for electro-acoustic composition. During the period between 2014-2017 he also performed curatorial work at Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, and in 2016 together with Gerhard Eckel and Marko Ciciliani for the concert series signale^graz.

Official website: http://daniel-mayer.at