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Dan Siegler

Producer/Composer/Songwriter

About Me

Dan Siegler is a composer, producer and songwriter from New York City. He has contributed music to many projects in film, TV, theater and modern dance and has written songs with and produced a wide variety of singer/songwriters. Siegler's unique electronic/orchestral scores have been called "eerie, churchly and jazzy.." by the Village Voice. He has received grants from Meet the Composer, the Jerome foundation and the Mary Cary Flagler Charitable Trust and his work for choreographers Pam Tanowitz and Yanira Castro has been performed at The Guggenheim Museum, Danspace project, Dance Theater Workshop and Central Park Summerstage. A remixed collection of these scores called "Errors" is now available on itunes and CD Baby and other digital distribution sites. Siegler's song "Maybe" won the Olman Scholarship award from the National Academy of Popular Music and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. "Maybe" was also featured in the Ted Demme film "Monument Avenue" and was covered by the pop/jazz artist Deanna Kirk. Siegler co-produced "Puzzle", the debut CD from founding Fishbone member Christopher Dowd, which featured Jeff Buckley. Siegler has also worked with Ruff Ryder recording artist L.T., Morley, Julian Fleisher and Suzi Shelton among others. He has composed scores for TV projects including work for HBO and FOX. Other work in film includes a jazz score for "The Other Side of the Street", a documentary on the life and times of legendary journalist Jimmy Breslin.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/19/2005
Band Website: Dansieglermusic.com
Band Members:
Influences: Henry Cowell, David Bowie, Ornette Coleman, Kraftwerk, Duke Ellington, Thomas Dolby, Thelonious Monk, Gary Numan, Charles Mingus, Cocteau Twins, Josef Wittman, Steve Winwood, Fats Waller, The Clash.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

On Terrorism

Terrorism is an attempt to imitate nature. It is a voice from the ancient past rising up to say, 'You think you have removed yourself from the earth with technology, but we will bring you back down to...
Posted by Dan Siegler on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:04:00 PST

The Consequences of Randomness

Music, for the most part, does not exist well in a vacuum. It's better when other people get their dirty, sticky hands all over it. When creating a score, I believe the sound should relate in some way...
Posted by Dan Siegler on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 05:21:00 PST

Repackaging Your Past

What is it that we, as consumers are looking for when we plunk down our dollars at Christmastime on that Director's cut DVD collection or that multi CD boxed set. Perhaps we are trying unconsciously t...
Posted by Dan Siegler on Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:16:00 PST