Albums In My Arms, Many Flowers | ||
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Occupation(s) Composer, instrument builder, teacher Genre Contemporary classical music Similar Jody Diamond, Paul Dresher, Barbara Benary, Rinde Eckert, Steven Schick | ||
Daniel Schmidt is a composer and builder of American gamelan. He currently teaches gamelan and instrument building at Mills College. He is also a long-time collaborator with Paul Dresher.
Like his friends Lou Harrison and Bill Colvig, Daniel Schmidt has built many aluminum and brass gamelans including the Berkeley Gamelan, the Sonoma State Gamelan, and helped build the aluminum gamelan that is used by Gamelan Pacifica in Seattle. He is currently working on an aluminum gamelan, "Gift", in collaboration with students at Mills College. "Gift" uses the same tuning and extended range as the instruments Si Darius/Si Madeleine, and finished instruments are used in performance with Si Darius/Si Madeleine.
Recording, vinyl, "In My Arms, Many Flowers" will be released in the spring of 2016.