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Jess

I'm not a human

About Me

My name is Jess. I spend most of my time as a music software teacher and making noise + music. I very much like computers, and I don't get out very often.

There are a million other people like me, and I am one of them. I am one in a million.

My Interests


Music , Drums, Guitar, Bass, Keyboard, Synthesis, Writing, Integration of Humans and Machinery, Instincts, Sound Design and Creation

I'd like to meet:

People that would like to meet me.

Music:

1-Speed Bike, a Perfect Circle, Amon Tobin, Arovane, Autechre, Boards of Canada, BT, Bush, Channel 69, Chris Clark, Crystal Method, Daedal, Delerium, Depeche Mode, Richard Devine, Dismantled, Dj Tisto, Download, Drifting in Silence, Filter, Freight Elevator Quartet, Front Line Assembly, Gescom, Global Goon, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Gravity Kills, Interpol, Joy Division, Lowpass Frequency, MDFMK, Midwest Product, Mm, Neutral, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Pet Shop Boys, Phonem, Plaid, Professional Murder Music, Radiohead, Sigur Rs, Silver Mt Zion, Skinny Puppy, Snake River Conspiracy, Stabbing Westward, Tool, Underworld, Uusitalo, Vast, Velvet Acid Christ, Venetian Snares, Vladislav Delay, -ziq

Books:

Brave New World, 1984, The Computer Music Tutorial

Heroes:

Tool, Gary Zon, Réal Cardinal, Jon Stewart, Elliot Perkins, Al Gore

My Blog

Another come-down

So in the midst of making a new song and getting ready for school to actually start this week, I am becoming ill. Again. I don't know why my sinuses hate me, but they really have it in for me already....
Posted by Jess_core on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:43:00 PST

Benign Ilisu

Settled back in just fine. I am smiling on a regular basis and now freezing too. My lips chapped horribly though. Started writing a new track for my Advanced Sampling class. I'm using every little tec...
Posted by Jess_core on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:08:00 PST

Offshore Currents 220 Volts

Back up in Boston and loving it. I miss the Winter here. It use to be cold but not anymore. I went to Back Bay yesterday in a long sleeved shirt because it was 65 degrees. Maybe it was colder in Houst...
Posted by Jess_core on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 11:20:00 PST

Crash Landing

That is my term for the semester end. I think I am going to have to take an incomplete in two of my classes. Funny how you can be persistent during the entire semester, but then at the end you don't d...
Posted by Jess_core on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:21:00 PST

The Best Days v2

I have Laryngitis. My nose is congested, and my voice sounds terrible. At least my throat doesn't hurt.UpdateMy laryngitis has expanded to an upper respiratory infection identical to the one I had las...
Posted by Jess_core on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 08:30:00 PST

Recycling

In a very obvious way, that is quite true. With refuse as the meaning, we simply generate a great amount than we should quite possibly... reuse? (fossil fuels are an American way of life)My intension ...
Posted by Jess_core on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 04:02:00 PST

My dream girl hates me

And I can't get enough of it.That was an odd dream. I was running around a city with someone that resembled an ex-girlfriend.I haven't been getting great sleep at all lately. I've been drinking so muc...
Posted by Jess_core on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:57:00 PST

It's Winter in my heart

The days are getting shorter, and the weather is getting colder, and it makes me smile. Feelings like these confuse me because I can not explain the wonderful feeling burning inside from cold sweeping...
Posted by Jess_core on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:40:00 PST

You may go, but you won't leave

I am kind of tired, but I am quite pleased. I hit play on Adore by Smashing Pumpkins a little while ago, and Crestfallen really stuck out, so I put it on repeat. I'd never really listened to the album...
Posted by Jess_core on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:06:00 PST

Live

Practices with Walker for my live band (Drev) have been turning out really well. We're both improvising over the music and having a great time playing it. And, oddly enough, it sounds great live. If y...
Posted by Jess_core on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 06:54:00 PST