CURRENT MISSION

meet as many fellows before being devoured by time

ABOUT ME

i make video + run an electronic music netlabel ...
i am fascinated by the possibilities of installation-based multi-collaborative user generated art pieces ...
i play the piano. let me play for you ...

PHILOSOPHY

self-actualization

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

conversationalist, cook vegetarian, exchanging media (?), open to new perspectives.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

meeting like-minded spirits & sharing ideas.

Interests

video.art, musical composition, new interactive media design, web-design, software environments like Max/MSP and Processing, cut-up montage neocinema like the work of Martha Colbrun, but i like most kinds of films + too many genres.

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pondering the gamuts of history; civilizations in all of their diversity;
buddhist/ancient greek/existentialist/transhumanist philosophy;
i have an amateur's enthusiasm about mathematics and infinite sets, a.i and augmentation
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as a composer + pianist giving performances from time to time, music is important to me. i am also a techno, idm, acid, breakcore, glitch nerd, and lately i've really been LOVING some new ambient and drone artists that i'm hearing.
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traveling, camping, nature, national parks, starting fires, charting stars
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hackers, wikileaks, internet, free speech, current events, videogames, critical play, organic/cyber-evolution, the yucatan, DNA, revolutionary science
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• arts
• design
• cooking
• vegetarian
• running
• movies
• traveling
• music
• classical music
• electronic music
• piano
• camping
• communications
• history
• mathematics
• science
• software
• parks

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC //
electronic music, jazz music, world music, classical music, new music ...

BOOKS {a short list} //
David Foster Wallace
William Shakespeare
Hillel Schwartz
Douglas Hofstadter
Richard Wright
Noam Chomsky
Flannery O'Connor
Jean-Paul Sartre
William Faulkner
H.P. Lovecraft

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One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

visiting the Heiligenstadt chapel in Vienna
visiting the Angkor Ruins of Cambodia

Teach, Learn, Share

Max/MSP/Jitter
Classical Music + Glitch Music
Environmentalism
K-12 Teaching Strategies

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belgium, Cambodia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Mexico, United Kingdom, United States