Hi, I’m Daniel! I'm a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and technologist working at the intersection of sound, structure, and system design. My practice spans algorithmic composition, field recording, and digitally-entangled performance, with a focus on the embodied perception of time, structure, and place. Drawing on research across more than a dozen countries, I've spent my career investigating how technological mediation alters our experience of listening and how sonic systems can encode or resist dominant cultural logics. I’ve composed for contemporary music ensembles including L’Itinéraire, Vertixe Sonora, and Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, and my music has been featured at festivals and conferences from Montréal to Mysore, Trento to Taipei. My creative research often involves animated music notation, live electronics and hardware synthesizers, and generative systems informed by recursive patterning, asymmetrical time structures, and non-linear compositional logics. I hold an M.A. in Digital Musics from Dartmouth College, where my thesis explored the philosophy of cartography through musical scores. My work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Watson Foundation, and organizations such as SEAMUS, BMI, and ASCAP. In parallel, I maintain a professional practice as a full-stack software engineer—most recently with Zipline, where I helped develop infrastructure for autonomous drone delivery of pharmaceuticals. As a writer, my works on art and technology are frequently featured by Signal Blog and have been published in the proceedings pf the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation.

Whether I’m designing sequencing architectures, documenting acoustic ecologies through extended fieldwork, or tracing speculative cartographies through sound, I’m interested in how algorithmic systems can surface hidden or emergent structures in the environments we inhabit. You can find my music on SoundCloud (@therosendaal) and my code on GitHub (@PleatherStarfish).