Composer/guitarist/programmer Nick Didkovsky is best known as the leader of Doctor Nerve, a rock-based septet that plays energetic and tightly arranged music that is created with the help of algorithmic computer programs. Using JMSL (Java Music Specification Language) as his compositional toolkit, and its predecessor HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language) before that, his pieces have a strength and emotional impact that explodes the myth that computer-generated works are, by their nature, bland and sterile. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.