Daniel Dettwiler
Daniel Dettwiler was born in 1974 and lives near Basel with his family. He studied Audio-Design at the "Academy of Music", Basel, from 1996 until 2001. In 2002, he started his company “Idee und Klang Dettwiler” which developed into “Idee und Klang Studio”. Assembly of the most significant collection of historic microphones in Switzerland.
As a recording engineer, he is specialized in the production of acoustic music, especially jazz and film music. He has worked on productions with ECM, Herbert Grönemeyer, London Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pierre Favre, Niki Reiser, Ute Lemper, David Klein, WDR Big Band, Kolsimcha, Nils Wogram, Jasmin Tabatabai, Christian Zehnder, Mark Turner, Jorge Rossy and many more.
He is one of the most popular tonmeister for film music in Switzerland and Germany, and has executed numerous music productions for cinema, such as "The White Massai", "Das Blaue vom Himmel", "Huck Finn", "Heidi", and "The diary of Anne Frank". In addition, he often works on film scores as a pianist.
In 2003, Daniel began giving lectures at Musikhochschule Basel (Applied Production Technique and Realisation) and, in 2018, became professor of Sound Engineering. He also teaches at the University of Arts in Zürich. Daniel is a regular presenter at conferences, e.g. AES, VDT and universities.
2019 he organized the "Sheer Pleasure of Sound", a large audio conference and seminar together with the iconic Al Schmitt and George Massenburg.
2019 he organized the "Sheer Pleasure of Sound", a large audio conference and seminar together with the iconic Al Schmitt and George Massenburg.
Daniel loves to develop special approaches for unique projects. Here are some notable examples.