*music (live shows, sound installations, recording, etc.)
*electronic music production & performance, organic & electronic music
*good films with mind-blowing scores
*art (galleries, warehouse gatherings read: non-swanky real, dark)
*Physics, Chemistry
*the neverending research of how Math relates to music
*Conversational Topics that can go on and on
*Meeting people who are into the arts
*My Powerbook, watching DVDs in bed and playing with Reaktor in bed with my 5.1 system
*Acupuncture/Acupressure
*circuit bent toys
*audio visual ---- tripping out on
*people that do what they say they will (no flakey perma-baked individuals)
*baked individuals
*violins, cellos, pretty much every stringed instrument
*playing these instruments through distressed effects crazily
*Kaoss, my MIDI glove, gear/software
*collecting music and learning new styles
*learning about other cultures, travelling
*talking about meaningless/full facts (i.e. the black hole emits sound waves that are 57 octaves below our hearing range)
*synchronistic conversations with random people
*Wikipedia..cruise it daily
*cross country virtual online performances
*spending way too much time twisting virtual knobs with my mouse
*reading other people's blogs and Livejournals because I love a good story
*people watching
*synthesis: Reaktor 5, Reason 3.0, Atmosphere, Ableton Live 5
*visual fx and video
*pushing my own limits for myself on a daily basis
I'd like to meet:
Freaky peeps who like to explore inner space.
Music:
Warp, Merck, Schematic, Hefty, Electro (not clash), Murcof, Bitstream, Monolake, Tipper, Esem, Xela, AFX, Plaid, Autechre, Soul Oddity, Proem, The Notwist, Sunny Day Reel Estate, Blonde Redhead, Death Cab, YYY, Sigur Ros, Mum, Aesop Rock, Def Jux, Shosty, Debussy, John Adams, Chen Yi, Reich, Stockhausen, Stravinsky, MS Gopalakrishnan, Sol.illaquists of Sound, Triosk & Jan Jelinek, Janek Schaefer, Ghostly Int., Merck, Reich, HBMS, Bitstream, Midwest Product, o9, Jega, Interpol, BOC, Gustav Mahler, Debussy, Volsoc, Soft Pink Truth, []pusher, Cex, Proem, Dwayne Sodahberk, Serge Gainsbourg, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsome, Arvo Part, Cat Power, Telefon Tel Aviv, Morton Subotnik, ...and on and on and on...and so on and so forth
Movies:
Charlie Kaufman stuff: Eternal Sunshine etc, Donnie Darko, Waking Life, Wes Anderson, David Lynch
Television:
occasionally I'll watch shows I get off BitTorrent, but it's mostly to study the music/scores
Books:
production software manuals, music history books and pretty picture (don't have to think) books, design & photography, books seeking the truth they may not find. Currently reading up on lucid dreaming, Berlioz's Orchestration Techniques
Heroes:
any person who achieved something they were told they couldn't, mi madre, Laurie Anderson, the person who invented bubbles.
