i'm a doctoral student in music theory. i also dabble in composition and electronic/experimental music. my academic interests are: music and subculture, rhetorical strategies in post-tonal music, nonlinear perception of time, the music of Britten, trance and ecstatic experience, nonfunctional tonality, and performance contexts as constructive elements. exploring these things is pretty much what I do in my free time, too, although with fewer footnotes and more alcohol.
i probably already have a crush on you.
especially if you have tattoos or piercings of some sort, or hair dyed some unnatural color. but if you don't, you might still fall under one of my other crush categories.
i'm not really picky as long as you're nice.
i'm very much interested in subcultures and if you feel like you belong to one then I will probably find you interesting. it's probably because i went to catholic school and was a loner and generally socially inept. for my part, i ended up getting involved heavily in rave culture on the east coast in the early 90s. when all that started to fold up big time, i kind of morphed into a scenester for a while before going to miami and playing in a band. I hate sitting around at home.
i am very much about the old-school DIY attitude and would love to bring more interesting music to this area... especially of the what-just-happened variety. this is separate from the sort of concert music i do at school, which obviously I also think is valuable and important.
benjamin britten, electronic and dance music in all its forms (including but not limited to jungle, deep house, ambient, trance, techno, garage, electroclash, trip hop, synth pop, new wave), radiohead, music with sort of a drone going on and lots of reverb, post-rock songs with three chords, late medieval polyphony, wilco, john adams in the late 80s, yes of course björk, momus, space rock, claude vivier, mahler, spiritualized, the velvet underground, spacemen 3, mogwai, josquin des prez, george crumb, goth/industrial, miles davis, plastikman, richard wagner, nirvana, bt, aphex twin, decadent late romantic works flirting with atonality, alban berg, laurie anderson, sex pistols, britpop, hector berlioz, anything that could show up on hearts of space
infinite jest. ada or ardor. doktor faustus (mann.) in search of lost time. borges fictions. aldwell and schachter harmony and voice leading. art and fear. sonnets to orpheus.
BENJAMIN BRITTEN. parker posey. thom yorke. tenzin gyatso. gustav mahler. heinrich schenker. momus.