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Austin S. Lin

About Me

An Atlanta-displaced sax player now residing in laughably stellarly cleanoutcheckingaccountly housing in Fairfield County, CT due to a kind relocation assistance package from CorporateAmericaLand.

If you see me on my balcony, no, it's not "performance art." It's "practicing a saxophone without actually practicing a saxophone so neighbors don't get me evicted for disturbing the peace" art.

So when the train four hundred yards from my backyard screeches its wheels to a blood-curdling halt each evening at 11pm, I pretend it is my music of dissonance---a modern day Connecticutian interpretation of Coltrane's Ascension....but softer.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 31/08/2005
Band Website: http://www.AustinSLin.com
Influences: David Bowie, Thelonius Monk, Tom Waits, Sonny Rollins
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Jazz and Rock are Suits that Fit but Aren’t Tailored.

Started learning the erhu and realized that in the pairing of its sound with jazz and country-folk rhythms, it makes for an interesting new language.After getting beyond the point to where I didn't so...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:13:00 GMT

If These Walls Could Listen.

Practicing saxophone involves the power of all four dimensions.Particularly, the Third and Fourth dimensions have been quite the stumbling block as of late.With the Third Dimension, it involves space-...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:22:00 GMT