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                                            Daniel Blinkhorn

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                                            Daniel is an Australian composer and digital media artist currently residing in Sydney.
                                            His music and audiovisual works are increasingly performed/ screened/ exhibited and cited at
                                            numerous international festivals, competitions, events and other loci.

                                            His compositions have received over 20 international and national composition awards, with recent
                                            activities (2009 – 2012) including 1st Prize at the ‘International Composition Competition Città di
                                            Udine – 9th Edition, Italy, 1st Prize at the ‘12th as well as the 9th (2011 – 2009) International
                                            Electroacoustic Composition Competitions, ‘Música Viva’, Portugal, 1st Prize at the Luc Ferrari – 8th
                                            International Competition d’art Radiophonique Pour Sons Fixés et Instrument – La Muse en Circuit,
                                            Centre National de Création Musicale, Paris, 2 nominations at the Australian Art Music Awards
                                            (nomination ‘best composition by an Australian Composer’– 2009 and nomination ‘Award for
                                            Excellence in Experimental Music’ – 2012) and an Honourable Mention at the ‘Prix Presque Rien’, a
                                            special award in honour of composer Luc Ferrari, Paris, France.

                                            He has worked in a variety of creative, academic, research and teaching contexts, and he was a 2011
                                            Winston Churchill Fellow. Other activities in 2011 included visiting Scholar at the University of
                                            Virginia, Music Department, the Conservatory of Music – University of Missouri, Kansas City and
                                            visiting artist at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He has undertaken numerous composition
                                            residencies internationally, and is an ardent location field recordist, where he has embarked upon a
                                            growing number of recording expeditions throughout the Amazon, West Indies, Northern Europe,
                                            Middle East, Australia and throughout the high Arctic/ northern polar region of Svalbard.

                                            Whilst entirely autodidactic in electroacoustic music and digital media, he has formally studied at a
                                            number of Australian universities including, COFA – UNSW and the University of Wollongong
                                            where his doctoral degree in composition (2007) was recommended for special commendation. Other
                                            degrees include a BMus (hons), MMus, and a MA®.

                                            More information about Blinkhorn, as well as samples of his work can be found at
                                            www.bookofsand.com.au, field recordings activities at www.bookofsand.com.au/frostbYte

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