bio

Dan Siegler is a Composer and Sound Artist from New York City. His work combines electronic and organic elements, incorporating references to jazz, blues and folk. Strongly influenced by musique concrète, these compositions employ a mixture of analog synthesizers, orchestration for concert instruments, glitch sound material and field recordings. His music has been described as "luxuriously mercurial" by Artforum and “frequently haunting” by The New Yorker. Siegler studied with Bill Dixon and Milford Graves. He came of age immersed in a boundary-pushing New York scene, absorbing the abrasive hip-hop of Public Enemy and the experimental sounds of No Wave. 

Siegler received a Bessie Award for his work with Pam Tanowitz. Their collaborations have been performed at The Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, Central Park Summerstage, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Art Basel Miami Beach and many other venues from Brooklyn to Buenos Aires. Siegler has composed music for String Noise, Crossman Dans(c)e and Yanira Castro. Other awards and residencies include a WPA Virtual Commission from Works & Process at The Guggenheim Museum, a Composer’s Fellowship to Art Omi, a CAP/UCLA Artist Residency, The Abe Olman Scholarship from The National Academy of Popular Music, a Composer’s Residency at Wildacres and with Tanowitz, an EtM Choreographer + Composer residency at JCAL. Siegler is a Part-time Lecturer at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.