Dr. Horner [IJL] - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Push play below to hear some of my music.

I write concert music (that means symphonies, operas, etcetera). For real. Orchestras play it. It's phuqqing awesome.

I am what some ppl would call an electric guitar virtuoso or "guitar god" if you will. I'm working on establishing an extensible standard notation and graded method system for the instrument.

I work as a Linux systems administrator mostly for medical imaging and financial enterprises.

I used to work as a recording engineer. I prefer to record "concert" or "classical" music but I record my insanely loud music and I had the honor of recording Kayo Dot .

I'm writing a music theory book.

I've studied and worked with some really amazing people including John Bavicchi, Michael Hersch , Libby Larsen , Joe Stump , Christopher Theofanidis , Chen Yi, Rimli Sengupta, Yakov Gubanov, Paul Matthews, Jeff Dorenfeld, Anna Celenza, Mark Shilansky, James Russell Smith, Ben Newhouse and Kevin Kaska.

I have a bunch of degrees that don't really mean anything. What matters is that I know how to do things and I actually get them done.

Berklee is pretty much my favorite place in the world.

My Interests

opera, violin, microtonality, tuning theory, tension and release, dodecaphony, spectra, money, audio engineering, recording, mixing, editing, mastering, live sound, musical perception, heavy metal, electronic composition, non-pitch centric music, orchestration, stochastic composition, pitch organization, metric organization, ametricity, amplification, extended performance techniques, social implications of music, computational theory (finite and infinite automata, nondeterminism, time complexity, space complexity, decidability, np-complete), signal processing, operating systems, security, compression, distributed computing, anonymous networks, steganography, encryption, quantum computing, nanotech, machine learning, communications and storage systems, quantum mechanics, non-logical systems, electro-magnetism/electrical engineering, astronomy, classical physics, probability theory, genetic engineering, alcohol, food, group psychology, memory retention, law, crime, morality, immortality, class disparity, self-reflexive systems, living beyond one's means, discontinuity, hair, chemical dependencies, governance systems, beauty, vanity, Russia, military history, combat, weaponry, social life, sed, awk, perl, C, compilers, low latency systems, investment banking, market psychology, statistical analysis (aka charting), smalltalk, small talk

I'd like to meet:

People who are fun.

People who want to fund my projects.

Wolfgang Rihm (met him 3/11/2005), Oliver Knussen, Pierre Boulez, Rodion Shchedrin, Gyorgy Ligeti (deceased), Krzysztof Penderecki, Tomiko Kojiba, Einojuhani Rautavaara

I've actually met and probably used to hang out regularly with most of the people on my friends list. I'm in no way averse to meeting people on1ine, but I'd rather use this thing to goof off with my friends than read bulletins from people I don't know.

People You Should Know
Bob

Pam

Omar

Mistress Sasha

Missy

Lannocc

Maria

Lauren

Eddie

Mike

Erin

Juicy Burger

Steph

Matt

Jeff

Emily

Hannah

Bill

Jill

Kait

Cat

Nicole

Danae

Shawn Scarlett

Immortals
Wagner

Berg

Ligeti

Xenakis

Schnittke

Berlioz

Bartok

Scelsi

Scriabin

Shostakovich

Born To Play
Richter

Hilary Hahn

Boulez

Ron Jazombek

Normalized Sound
Queensryche

Fates Warning

Edge of Sanity

Cynic

Nevermore

Death

Candlemass

Ram Zet

Spastic Ink

Emperor

Meshuggah

Kayo Dot

Very Sophisticated Music
ytcracker

Gabriel Kahane

Zlad!

Bands I'm In
Tweeze the Gooch

Boob Spew

Tracksuits N Chainz

Trans-Siberian Chamber Orchestra

HER

Dipstick

Condom Santa and the Penis Pumps

Richard Edward Horner

Music:

Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Hector Berlioz, Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Gyorgy Ligeti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Wolfgang Rihm, Giacinto Scelsi, Alfred Schnittke, Alexander Scriabin, Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, Peteris Vasks, Richard Wagner, Anton Webern, Iannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez, Hilary Hahn, Ron Jarzombek, Sviatoslav Richter, Gil Shaham, Arsis, Atheist, Candlemass, Cynic, Darkane, Death, DEV/NULL, Dissection, Edge of Sanity, Emperor, Fates Warning, Gordian Knot, Gorguts, Kayo Dot, Maudlin of the Well, Lemur Voice, Lord Bane, The Mars Volta, Megadeth, Memory Garden, Mercenary, Merzbow, Meshuggah, Nevermore, Planet X, Queensryche, Ram-Zet, Spastic Ink, Spiral Architect, Superior, Steve Vai, To-Mera, Devin Townsend, Ulver, Vauxdvihl, Watchtower, ytcracker, Zero Hour, Zlad!

Movies:

Fear of a Black Hat, Doctor Zhivago, The Empire Strikes Back, Vertigo

Television:

Upright Citizens Brigade, NFL Football, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Colbert Report, NCAA Mens Basketball, Stargate

Books:

Carr, Caleb. The Lessons of Terror: A History of Warfare Against Civilians: Why It Has Always Failed and Why It Will Fail Again

Feynman, Richard. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

Lendvai, Erno. Bela Bartok: An Analysis of his Music

Monson, Karen. Alban Berg

Perle, George. The Operas of Alban Berg Volume One/Wozzeck

Perle, George. The Operas of Alban Berg Volume Two/Lulu

Perle, George. Twelve Tone Tonality

Rahn, John. Basic Atonal Theory

Sipser, Michael. Introduction to the Theory of Computation

Taylor, Ronald. Richard Wagner

Heroes:

Richard Wagner, Alban Berg, Iannis Xenakis, Charles Ives, Igor Stravinsky, Roger Federer, Bill Belichick, Tom Brady, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alfred Schnittke, Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Rihm, Hector Berlioz, Dr. Rodney McKay