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Musik Akademie Basel: https://www.jazzcampus.com/de.html

Idee und Klang Studio: https://www.danieldettwiler.com

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielDettwiler




Daniel Dettwiler was born in 1974.
He is a sound engineer specialized in acoustic music, as well as a professor at the "University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, Jazz Institute"
Daniel studied Audio-Design at the "Academy of Music", Basel, from 1996 until 2001. In 2002, he started his company “Idee und Klang Studio”, and has assembled one of the most significant collections of historic microphones in Europe.

       "Daniel is one of the top engineers on the planet."
       (Casey Dowdell, Bricasti)

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, Brad Mehldau, London Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pierre Favre, Niki Reiser, Chris Cheek, Ute Lemper, David Klein, WDR Bigband, Kolsimcha, Nils Wogram, Jasmin Tabatabai, Christian Zehnder, Mark Turner, and Jorge Rossy and many more.

       "I was deeply impressed by the clarity of the voice, the depth of field,
        and just the quality of the recording itself very much!" 
       (Al Schmitt)

He is one of the most popular sound engineers for film music in Switzerland and Germany, and has executed numerous music productions for cinema, such as "The White Massai", "Das Blaue vom Himmel", "The Adventures of Huck Finn", "Heidi“, and "The diary of Anne Frank". In addition, he often works on film scores as a pianist..

       "It’s really spectacular. Daniel has done a fantastic job with the mix!"
       (Jonathan Allen, Abbey Road Senior Sound Engineer)

In 2003, Daniel began giving lectures at Hochschule für Musik, Basel (Applied Production Technique and Realisation) and in 2018, became professor of Sound Engineering. He also teaches at the University of Arts in Zürich. 2019 he organized the "Sheer Pleasure of Sound", a large audio conference and seminar together with industry icons Al Schmitt and George Massenburg.

       "Idee und Klang engineer Daniel Dettwiler does awesome recording and mixing.
        This stuff sounds wonderful!!  So big and open... 
        He's an incredible, amazingly talented engineer."
       (Eric Valentine)

In 2005, together with Ramon de Marco he founded “Idee und Klang Audiodesign GmbH” which specializes in Sound Installations and Acousmatic Spatial Orchestration. Many projects have followed, such as Audio Design and Spatial Orchestration for the new BMW Museum in Munich or "Magicbox", the State Grid Pavilion at the Expo 2010 and the composition of the acoustic layout for DRS3 and DRS2. Furthermore, Daniel Dettwiler has worked as audio designer of concerts for composers such as Beat Gysin, Andrea Molino, Thomas Kessler and Heiner Goebbels.

       "Oh, I loved it!!"
       (George Massenburg)