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Jay

Enter The HyperSomnia

About Me

Tinkerer, striker of scrap metal, pipe-smoker, and collector of bones. CAD Design Engineer for a really cool Austrian corporation by day, sometimes sonic terrorist and dream recorder/documentor under the name HyperSomnia by night. Former drummer of G.L.O.D... Currently collaborating with Phee as A L I E N A R E . Sometimes freelance designer for combat/tactical knife industry.

My Interests

Lynzi, drumming, documentation of subconscious states, music from extreme sources, geometric relationships, expensive vodka, genuine people, recording/performing as HyperSomnia ...

I'd like to meet:

People with passionate takes on music, art, design, and lifestyle. Those comfortable with their obsessions. People that will pay me big money to design really cool-looking stuff for them in SolidWorks (3D CAD). Whatever, whoever. Write me nice letters and I'll smile and then give you a clove. Just don't try to shroud your ignorance or motives from me because I will transform into a towering black-winged archer and slay you.

Music:

Dead Can Dance, Merzbow, Einstürzende Neubauten, Der Blutharsch, Deutsch Nepal, Death in June, GLOD, Swans, Muslimgauze, Crash Worship ADRV, Zoviet France, DVoA, Rapoon, Coil, Nick Cave, 16HP, The Melvins, Boyd Rice, NON, Hybryds, Peter Andersson (Raison d'être, Necrophorus, Svasti-ayanam, Stratvm Terror, etc), Anenzephalia, Brighter Death Now, Cold Meat Industry (www.coldmeat.se), Skinny Puppy, Legendary Pink Dots, Tear Garden, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Future Sound of London, 9-Volt Haunted House, Rob Angus, Autopsia, Lustmord, Tribe Of Circle, Les Joyaux De La Princesse, Andrew Liles, Alio Die, O Yuki Conjugate, Vidna Obmana, Maeror Tri, Troum, Prokofiev, Zaftig Research, middle-eastern electronica, all things dark/ritual/ambient/celestial

Movies:

Metropolis, Nosferatu, Hour of the Wolf, Seventh Seal, Jan Svankmajer, Brothers Quay, Usual Suspects, City Of Lost Children, Wings Of Desire, Tetsuo Iron Man, Office Space, all Aeon Flux episodes, early German film, David Lynch, the stuff I see every time I close my eyes.

Books:

And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave), Flannery O'Connor, HP Lovecraft... Magazines: Future Music, Computer Music, Music Tech

Heroes:

I'm calling this area "my favorite visual artists":Mark Ryden, Ray Caesar, Daniel Martin Diaz, Alessandro Bavari (note the Headcleader video above), Shag, Gary Baseman, Tim Biskup, Aaron Kraten, Kathie Olivas, Simon Marsden, MC Escher, Hieronymous Bosch, Hans Holbein the Younger, Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer...I have to list Crispin Glover under the "other" category. Love or hate his work, he is brilliant.