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Daniel Dettwiler was born in 1974 and lives in Basel with his family. He studied Audio-Design at Musikhochschule Basel (Basel University of Music) from 1996 until 2001. 2002 he started his company Idee und Klang Dettwiler which now developed into Idee und Klang Studio. Assembly of the most significant collection of historic microphones in Switzerland. As a tonmeister he specialised in the realisation of acoustic music, especially jazz and film music. He has worked on productions with ECM (Pierre Favre), Herbert Grönemeyer, Mark Turner, London Symphony Orchestra, Niki Reiser, Ute Lemper, David Klein, WDR Bigband, Kolsimcha, Nils Wogram, Christian Zehnder, Jasmin Tabatabai, Al Foster. He is one the most popular tonmeister for film music and has executed numerous music productions for cinema, for example "Heidi", "The Diary of Anne Frank", "Labyrinth of Lies", "The White Masai", "Das Blaue vom Himmel", "The Adventures of Huck Finn" – he also often works on film scores as a pianist. Since 2003, lecturer at Musikhochschule Basel (Basel University of Music), jazz department (applied production technique and realisation). In 2005, together with Ramon de Marco he founded Idee und Klang GmbH that specialises on tone installations and acousmatic spatial orchestra. Many projects followed such as audio design and spatial orchestration for the new BMW World 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 worked as an audio designer of concerts for composers including Beat Gysin, Andrea Molino, Thomas Kessler and Heiner Goebbels. Since 2012 lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts at the deparments "filmmusic" and "tonmeister".