Press

Interviews, articles and features

Selected interviews, articles and features about Daniel’s work. Each entry opens the original source. Some articles are in German.

Television

SRF 10vor10
The CADAC project
2016

Interviews

Weiss Engineering
Interview with Daniel in the Audio Pro Blog
September 2024
Jazztime
My Task Is to Restore the Mystique of Music
In this Jazztime interview, Daniel Dettwiler explains why he favours analogue recording, historic microphones and early dialogue with musicians, and what he teaches his students.
PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)
Recording Magazin
Music Production Deluxe
Daniel Dettwiler explains how Jasmin Tabatabai's album "eine Frau" was recorded and mixed, from big band and orchestra miking to a hybrid analogue-digital signal path.
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Large interview
On the Art of Sound Recording
In an interview for a hi-fi members' magazine, Daniel Dettwiler discusses audio design, the Tonmeister's art, psychoacoustics, data reduction, and analogue versus digital recording.
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Jazz’n More
Obsessed with Good Sound
Portrait of Tonmeister Daniel Dettwiler, his overhauled Cadac console and his recording of Jorge Rossy's album "Stay There" at the Jazzcampus, with comments from Rossy.
2016PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)

Trade press and case studies

Professional Audio
A Great Sonic Adventure
Interview with Tonmeister Daniel Dettwiler on recording the Swiss klezmer band Kolsimcha with the London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studio 1 and mixing it in Basel.
2014PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)
Professional Audio
A "Queen" Among Consoles
Interview on how Dettwiler bought and restored the Cadac console that Queen once used for "A Night at the Opera", and what it sounds like.
2016PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)
Sound & Recording
Audio Workshop "Deluxe": The Sheer Pleasure of Sound, Basel
Sound & Recording reports on Daniel Dettwiler's three-day Basel workshop, where Al Schmitt and George Massenburg demonstrated recording and mixing sessions for almost 100 participants.
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Studio Magazin
The Sheer Pleasure of Sound – Three Days of Sound Retreat in Basel
Report on the three-day seminar launched by Daniel Dettwiler in Basel in May 2019, with Al Schmitt, George Massenburg and Steve Genewick as guest engineers.
PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)
Sound & Recording
Orchestra Recording – Recording the Orchestra for the Score of "The Adventures of Huck Finn"
Sound & Recording watches Tonmeister Daniel Dettwiler record the string orchestra for the film score of "The Adventures of Huck Finn" with historic microphones and tube preamps.
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Analog Audio Association
Recording Without Compromise
Report on a May 2011 visit by 17 AAA members to the Idee und Klang Studio in Basel, where Daniel Dettwiler explained how a Tonmeister shapes recordings.
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Newspapers and magazines

BaZ
The Stuff That Breathes Life into Films
Basler Zeitung profiles Basel Tonmeister Daniel Dettwiler, who recorded and mixed the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich's score for Cihan Inan's film "180°", which won the Suisa Prize at Locarno.
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Basel newspaper
The Chef of Sound
Portrait of Daniel Dettwiler, 33, in his Basel studio "idee und klang": why he sees himself as an artist rather than a technician, and teaches sound as an art.
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20 Minuten
Premium Sound for BMW and Grönemeyer
Two Basel music designers, Daniel Dettwiler and Ramon de Marco, run Studio Idee und Klang at Gundeldinger Feld and have just completed a two-year audio concept for the BMW Museum in Munich.
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Schweizer Familie
And the Mountain Calls Back
Vocal artist Christian Zehnder and Tonmeister Daniel Dettwiler travel the Swiss Alps recording the finest echoes for Echotopos, the world's first echo archive.
2015PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)
Schaffhauser Zeitung
I'm Too Slow for Hollywood
Weekly interview with composer Niki Reiser on scoring, directors and Hollywood; a photo shows him with Daniel Dettwiler at the studio where "Im Winter ein Jahr" was mixed.
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Werbewoche
Intimate Sounds for a Large Orchestra
Interview with Great Garbo's Diego and Lionel Baldenweg about recording their film score for "Amok" with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich under David Zinman, with Daniel Dettwiler as Tonmeister.
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BaZ
The Search for Reality
Review of the premiere of Beat Gysin's chamber opera "Marienglas", a headphone-based work in which audio designer Daniel Dettwiler mixes live, amplified and recorded sound layers.
PDFEnglish translation by AI · German original (PDF)
Tageswoche
A great English console on its way to Basel
2016 · archived copy

Books and publications

Book: HERITAGE365
The Sheer Pleasure of Sound
PDF
Book: Musiktraumzimmer
Sound and Space in Balance
A portrait of Daniel Dettwiler as Tonmeister and teacher at the Basel Jazzcampus: his influence on the recording hall's acoustics, his case for analogue technology, his studio.
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Idee und Klang
Creating Sonic Spaces
In a TEC21 feature, Daniel Dettwiler traces sound recording from Edison's phonograph to digital technology and argues that the Tonmeister creates sonic spaces as an artist.
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Work as an Educator

Professor of Sound Engineering

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.

Speaker at Conferences

Daniel is a regular presenter at conferences, e.g. AES, VDT and universities.

Sheer Pleasure of Sound | Audio Conference

2019 he organized the "Sheer Pleasure of Sound", a large audio conference and seminar together with the iconic Al Schmitt and George Massenburg.




Work as an Innovator

Daniel loves to develop special approaches for unique projects. Here are some notable examples.

ECHOTOPOS

Hear and find the greatest echoes at the Swiss alps. A project by Christian Zehnder. We researched the best solution to record those echoes in an audiophile approach. 

THE MAGIC BOX — WORLD EXPO, SHANGHAI

Daniel, together with Ramon De Marco, composed a fulminate music for the Magic Box Pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai, which was the world's largest 720° presentation at that time. 

MARIENGLAS

A special opera and new music project by composer Beat Gysin. Daniel did binaural pre-recordings and produced them in a way that the audience, while listening on electrostatic Stax Headphones, could experience a soundscape never heard before. Finally, he mixed the show in real-time for the live audience. 

SOUND PEARLS FOR THE SWISS NATIONAL RADIO

Daniel, together with Ramon De Marco, composed a series of special Jingles for several Swiss Radio Stations, such as SRF2, SRF3, Rendez-Vous, News and many more. 

THE BMW MUSEUM

The first project that Daniel created together with his colleague Ramon De Marco. For the BMW Museum in Munich, they composed a sound installation on a total of more than 600 Loudspeakers.