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PARETO

I'd like our activities to be more social, and anarchically so

About Me

Why PARETO?
Pareto Principle is a curious mathematical/economical law according to which the 80% of the consequences stem from 20% of the causes.
I always found it very funny since it's like to say that the 4/5 of our lives are nearly useless!
More information on this "funny" theorem can be found HERE .
What else?
It's not easy to say something interesting to let people understand who you are, thus here's a set of stolen sentences, which can tell you (better than I could do...) something about me.
- You are what you is (Frank Zappa)
- Never drive a car when you're dead (Tom Waits)
- That the impossible should be asked of me, good, what else could be asked of me? (Samuel Becket)
- Syntax, like government, can only be obeyed. It is therefore of no use except when you have something particular to command such as: Go buy me a bunch of carrots. (John Cage)
- Lazy dogmas of impossibility. (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Finally:
I'm graduated in Philosophy and now I'm attending a Ph. D. in Psycology of Programming and Artificial Intelligence. My research deals with the formalization of musical structures through mathematical models (such as complex networks). Wanna know something more about that? Click HERE . I have a lot of musical and life projects ( Saint Ferdinand , QB , Keng , and other, such as the recording of a solo work). I play electric bass and a set of analog/digital electronic devices (laptop, cracklebox, etc.). Players who influenced me are: Patrick O'Hearn, Mark Ribot, Les Claypool, Ian Williams, Derek Bailey, Adrian Belew, Paul Simonon, Fred Erskine.

My Interests

generally I'm ok...

Music:

Frank Zappa, John Cage, Franco Battiato, Paolo Conte, Storm and Stress, Mark Ribot, CCCP, US Maple, Don Caballero, June of 44, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, King Crimson, Shellac, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Jim O'Rourke, Anton Webern, Area, Sinistri, Capt. Beefheart, Pere Ubu, Tom Waits, Fu Manchu, Ulan Bator, Clash, Steve Reich, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, A Short Apnea, Anatrofobia, ZU (i think that's enough).

Movies:

Jarmusch, Wenders, Tarantino, Godard, Antonioni and so on...

Books:

Guy Debord "The society of spectacle", John Cage "Silence", Georges Bataille "The damned part", Derrick De Kerckhove "Brainframes", Franz Kafka "Metamorphosis", Marshall Mcluhan "Understanding Media", Jacques Derrida "Given time: I. Counterfeit Money", Friedrich Nietzsche "Beyond good and evil", Virginia Woolf "The Waves", Massimo DonĂ  "Filosofia della Musica", Gianfranco Salvatore "Frank Zappa Domani".