Dan Nicholls is a keyboardist, producer, and curator with an expansive and deeply entangled practice in the field of sound. Embracing joyful improvisation whilst casting aside dogma and seriousness, Nicholls’ work searches for deeper narratives, finding depth and form through quick experimentation and distillation – layering, stretching, and collaging sound and diffracting materials from many places, sonic and otherwise. He has worked with many electronic music pioneers, including Squarepusher, Goldie, and Matthew Herbert, alongside prominent figures in European jazz and improvised music.
For Nicholls, instruments such as the keyboard, piano, modular synthesizer, and computer are intimate tools, incorporated into a playful approach that is attentive to space and connection.
As a performer who has worked at venues as disparate as The Royal Albert Hall and Berghain; from the smallest experimental music clubs to the largest international festivals of jazz and new music – Dan finds, through versatility and openness, threads that can interweave between many worlds.