Daniel Ottini (b. 1965) is a Canadian sound artist, field recordist, sound designer, and electronic musician whose work focuses on seeking deeper truths about human emotion and experience using sound as a medium of inquiry and expression.
After a professional career of asking questions and an equal number of years as an electronic musician, his recorded works grew increasingly experimental, with releases such as The Age of the Unthinkable (2016) and Sketching the Unsound (2024), progressively incorporating field recordings and found sound. He expanded further into the realm of sound art, with multi-channel audio works such as The Allure of Shipwrecks (2025) and Is This a Test? (2025).
As a graduate of the George Brown Sound Design and Production program, he sharpened his technical skills with formal training in spatial audio, audio post-production, location sound, synthesis, and sound art.
His Sound Art practice currently utilizes documentary audio, field recordings, electronic textures, and spatial sound, to probe (and engage) the listener’s perspective in an immersive but non-didactic manner.
In addition to his artistic work, he remains active as a field recordist, sound designer and electronic composer, where his sounds have been utilized in video, podcasts, video games, and as demonstration audio for music hardware and software companies.
