Graham Wiggins

Graham Wiggins (born 1962 in New York) is an American musician and composer. He plays the didgeridoo, keyboards, melodica, sampler and various percussion instruments, which he uses in the band Dr. Didg. He is a PhD in physics from Oxford University, where he also received his nickname when he practiced in the laboratory building didgeridoo playing. The practice of his percussive style influenced many didgeridoo didgeridoo players of the 1990s.

Biography

Wiggins was born in New York City, the son of British parents and grew up there as well. Although his first musical instruments piano and horn were, he taught the didgeridoo playing, even when, after he had seen in the context of a world music concert in Boston a demonstration on a cardboard tube. He graduated in 1985 from Boston University and took graduate studies in Oxford.

Here he came to earn money to acquire the title of Doctor, as buskers on. In 1988 he founded with guitarist Martin Cradick the band Outback, the Australian sounds combined with modern music.

Before he graduated with his doctorate, he already had a record deal. After the dissolution of the group in 1992, he spent several months in Arnhem Land in Australia, where he lived in the Aboriginal community at Galiwinku on Elcho Iceland (one of the Wessel Islands) and studied the advanced traditional playing techniques of the area. With the exception of a few pieces such as Brolga his compositions, however, are not based on traditional Australian structures, but use the percussive, rhythmic and melodic potential of the didgeridoo.

In 1993, the Wiggins Group Dr. Didg. In 1994 he began to experiment with live sampling and loops, which became the basis of Dr. Didg album Out Of The Woods.

After 15 years in Oxford Wiggins retired in spring 2000 after Boston.

Developments

In 1983, Wiggins a tunable version of the didgeridoo like a valve instrument. After several prototypes of cardboard he set in 1990 of hardwood and brass which he uses today introduced version with eight flaps ago, which makes it possible to play nine different sounds. This instrument was first introduced in the British television in the program Tomorrows World and came to different Dr.Didg titles used, as in SubAqua on the CD Dust Devils and suntan on the CD Out Of The Woods.

Discography

  • Outback: Outback, 1990
  • Outback Dance The Devil Away 1991
  • Dr. Didg: Out Of The Woods, 1993
  • Dr. Didg: Serotonality, 1998
  • Dr. Didg: Live Jams 1999
  • Dr. Didg: Assorted, 2000
  • Graham Wiggins: Echoes Of The Past, 2000
  • Dr. Didg: Live Jams 2000 (2001)
  • Dr Didg: Dust Devils, 2002
  • Dr. Didg: This is your Brain, 2003
Electronic keyboard Sampler (musical instrument) Academic degree Elcho Island Melody Key (instrument)
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