Curriculum Vitae
Daniel Dehaan
designs, creates, and enables sounds
Current Positions
Assistant Professor of Music Technology
Columbia College Chicago | 2020–Present
Sound Designer
Self-Employed | 2010–Present
Private Lesson Instructor
Electronic Music Composition & Performance
Columbia College Chicago | 2011–Present
Previous Academic Positions
Practitioner-in-Residence of Digital Music Technology
Columbia College Chicago | 2019–2020
Course Facilitator
Columbia College Chicago Online | 2019–2020
Sound Design and Music for Immersive Media
Digital Music Lab Manager
Columbia College Chicago | 2011–2019
Adjunct Faculty, Music Composition
Northwestern University | 2011–2019
Adjunct Faculty
Columbia College Chicago | 2011–2019
High School Summer Institute Instructor
Columbia College Chicago | 2013–2016
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Northwestern University | 2012–2014
Music Copyist and Arranger
Silent Press Collective | 2009–2012
New Music Ensemble Assistant Director
Columbia College Chicago | 2008–2009
Percussion Ensemble Assistant Director
Ida Price Middle School | 2005–2007
Percussion Instructor
Leigh High School | 2006–2007
Education
Doctor of Music in Music Composition and Technology
Northwestern University
Notable Creative Projects
Recent Work
The Last Clockwinder (Hand-Tracking Update)
Pontoco, Seattle | 2024
Sound Design
Blight
Soulens, Minneapolis | 2023
Composer (Short Film)
Heartbeat Installation
Humancraft, San Francisco and New York | 2023
Audio/Music Programmer & Designer
ENIGMA
Reykjavik Arts Festival with Spektral Quartet | 2022
Looking Skyward
Multiple Venues | 2020–2022
Interactive & Commercial Work
T-Mobile: 5G&me Experience Center
Waveplant | Sound/Music Designer
4,000-square-foot immersive exhibition
Beam Suntory
Waveplant | Sound/Music Designer
Interactive installation at US headquarters
Alex
Jellyvision | Sound/Music Designer
Employee benefits onboarding system
Simple Sound Tools
Founder/Developer | 2025–Present
Platform for custom sound creation tools
Earlier Projects
Intelligence in the Human-Machine
Library of Congress | 2014
Electronics performer/composer with cellist Katinka Kleijn
Trompe l'Corps
International Contemporary Ensemble | 2013–2014
Electronics performer
Speaker Symphony No. 1
High Concept Laboratories | 2012
Live electronics and multi-floor installation
Committee Memberships
Current
- New A/V Programs Advisory Committee, Harper College (2021–Present)
- Music Department Planning Committee, Columbia College Chicago (2021–Present)
- Bachelor of Science in Music Technology Curriculum Committee (2019–Present)
- Music Curriculum Committee, Columbia College Chicago (2019–Present)
- Deep Dish Music Festival Planning Committee (2019–Present)
- Academic Technology Steering Committee, Columbia College Chicago (2021–Present)
Past
- Co-Chair, Academic Affairs Committee (2022–2023)
- Faculty Senate, Columbia College Chicago (2021–2023)
- Academic Technology Coordinator Committee (2011–2020)
Teaching
Spring 2024 Courses
- MUSC-175: Applied Music II (Laptop)
- MUSC-228: Digital Music Composition & Performance
- MUSC-601: Media Music Tech Lab First-Year Grad Lab
Areas of Expertise
- Digital Music Composition & Performance
- Foundations of Music Technology
- Sound Design and Music for Immersive Media
- Media Music Tech Lab
- The Sonic Experience
- Applied Music
- Aural Skills
Course history spans 2011–2024 across Columbia College Chicago and Northwestern University
Discography
Swing Suck Swaddle Side Sound
Scripts Records | 2020
Of sun and machine
Tunecore | 2017
The Hungry Brain Set - March 2017
Bandcamp
Abhanden
Navona Records | 2014
With Chris Wild