Jacob Danziger
Jacob Danziger is a composer and violinist from Michigan and New York
City, where he received a BA in music from Columbia University. He is
currently working towards an MFA in Electronic Music at Mills College
where he is focusing on an ongoing body of solo works for violin and
Max/MSP. He is a member of the quiet band Flashpapr as well as the
mostly quiet bands Tiny Lights, City Cricket, Tornado Family, Pale
Male, and Wow City Shockers. He often performs or records with rock
bands Saturday Looks Good To Me, His Name Is Alive, Doveman and has
improvised with Tatsuya Nakatani, Exias-J, Boris Hauf, Okkyung Lee,
Jessica Pavone, Matt Bauder and Aaron Siegel among others. Current
improvisation-based projects include duos with Aram Shelton and Zach
Wallace, and a "live sound for silent films" collective including Steve
Roden, Jeffrey Roden, Kraig Grady and Loren Chasse. Recent
collaborations with Steve Roden have also resulted in two sound
installations by Steve Roden - "day ring" at The Henry Art Gallery in
Seattle (2006) and "dark light over earth" at MOCA in Los Angeles
(2007). He also runs the cd-r label Naming Distances.