I listen to a lot of muzak. I like to stay on the move. Aside from designing worthless signal processing programs and making demented music... I'm finishing up my studies in sound design at Columbia College Chicago and werkin'/livin' in Milwaukee. I spend most of my time studying, working, in the car, on the train, on the bus, working on music, or on the web. Sometimes when my ambitions arise, I like to organize electronic music events and parties. I like meeting cool and forward-thinking people and creating/sequencing new sounds. I enjoy spending quality time with my friends, my cat, my couch, my thoughts, my machines, and my muzak. Burning out my retinas in front of computer monitors has been kinda fun lately too. I also love traveling, reading, chillin', watching films, computer animation, photography, sculpture, architecture, percussion, bass, camping, oceans, astronomy, acoustics, kickboxing, downhill skiing, swimming, graphic design, thunderstorms, white noise, and all-night dancing sessions at the disco!
NOT YOUR SHITTY ROCK BAND!!!but I would like to meet some more interesting people in other countries as I want to tour certain parts of the world sooner than later! Here's a true little quote I came across online recently by some author:"You know what ages a man? Boredom. When I was young, traveling, I felt like a lion... but when at home I feel like I'm eighty."
Efdemin, Burial, Trentemoller, Angelo Badalementi, Carl Craig, Thom Yorke, Radiohead, My Bloody Valentine, Prince, Colder, Portishead, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, New Order, Gary Numan, Mazzy Star, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Pete Namlook, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Philip Glass, The Orb, Thomas Schumacher, Pan Sonic, Kool Keith, Quasimoto, Modeselektor, White Stripes, Murcof, Mathew Jonson, Guido Schneider, Monolake, Thomas Brinkmann, Someone Else, Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Herbert, Swayzak, Solvent, Adult, I-F, Anthony Rother, Kompakt guys, John Cage, Wendy Carlos, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Kraftwerk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Beethoven, Eric Satie, John Williams, The Kronos Quartet, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Rhythm and Sound, Tikiman, Basic Channel, Pulp, Ride, Low, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Nitzer Ebb, Nine Inch Nails, The Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, Dabrye, DJ Shadow, Madlib, Elliott Lipp, Prefuse 73, Atmosphere, QBert, Nightmares on Wax, Michael Jackson, De La Soul, Moodyman, Maurizio, Theo Parrish, Cajmere, Steve Bug, Richie Hawtin, and all the other djs and producers who present good music...
Control, Pan's Labyrinth, Twin Peaks, City of Lost Children, Bug, Lost Highway, bout de souffle, Bande à part, Eyes Wide Shut, Memento, True Romance, Blue Velvet, City of God, Clockwork Orange, The Departed, Requiem For a Dream, Eraserhead, Trainspotting, The Shining, Lost in Translation, High Tension, Alien
Most of the time tv is good for wasting time (unless you're watching a good film of course) and as for video games... "Video games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." - Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
People who have a passion for something in life and go with it... A few of my inspirations would be David Lynch, Mark Rothko, Stanley Kubrick, Kraftwerk, Guillermo Del Toro, among many others