First paragraph: I am surrealist composer with a background in guitar, electronic, and experimental jazz. I like to play with language and social structures. I enjoy the sensual and the visceral aspects of life. I'm always looking for mental challenges and constructs to keep myself engaged. I have a thirst for knowledge, and I find intellectually stimulating activities to be the most enjoyable. I collect books. I'm highly active, and a tireless adventurer.

I'm pursuing my masters in music composition from CUNY: Brooklyn, and working on my various musical projects. I also have a minor electronics/computer science fascination that plays directly into my music studies.

I also work at a tech start-up doing work on 3D printers. This puts me directly into contact with the electrical engineering scene in Brooklyn. It has expanded my life quite a bit.

I love to see how things work. I have a passion for engineering new solutions to old problems.
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Currently:
Writing an opera.
Playing Noise music.
Circuit Bending
Arduino/AVR
Developing a program that generates electronic music algorithmically
Teaching myself Mongolian/Tuvan/Tibetan throat singing
working on my Italian
starting to learn Mongolian

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I love to study visual art of all types. Performance art is a major love as well.

Did I mention I was obsessed with aquariums? I happen to adore the Nautilus at the New York aquarium. He's feisty!

Music
Asking surreal questions.
Scribbling in my notebook
Remembering the evolutionary histories of animals
daydreaming.

People notice my scribbly exterior of da-da-esque strangeness, followed by several layers of hardened smart ass culminating in a soft gooey core of curious wanderer.

Books:
anything by bukowski
Pema Chodron, when things fall apart
Alan Watts, The Book
Audio Culture (compilation)
Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids From Hot Climates
Sound Design
The Super Collider Book
All manner of comic books (big image comics fan)

Movies:
Pulp Fiction
Mozart and the Whale
The Shark and the Eagle
The Painter
The Cremaster Series
The Squid and the Whale
Eraser Head
The Lost Highway
Aliens
Peter Jackson's Bad Taste
Tromeo and Juliet
Plan 9 from outer space
Full Metal Jacket
I married a strange person
7 Sumerai
Bird
The Salton Sea

Comics:
Axe-Cop
Dinosaur Comics
Penny-Arcade
Diesel Sweeties
Dilbert (been a fan since the 90's!)
Wiley's Non-Sequiter

Music:
Tom Waits
Tristan Murail
Girard Grisey
Pierre Boulez
Ornette Coleman
Albert Ayler
The Do-dos
Richard Barret
Brian Ferneyhough
John Coltrane
Eric Dolphy
Cecil Taylor
Red Garland
Mr. Bungle
Gyorgi Ligeti
John Cage
Morton Feldman
KMFDM
DJ Q-Bert
The roots
Sun Ra
Aphex Twin
Venetian Snares
Square Pusher
Secret Mommy
Mike Patton
Eliot Sharp

a pound of C4, six spiders, a bowl of punch, two neon lights, a flaming giraffe, and a scale model of the hague.

New music projects, Improbable and amusing situations (for instance: what if I built a soda cannon...), World politics, Hacktivism, building a robot, dying my jeans a different shade, the future of music, exotic pets, exotic instruments, thermal vents.

Either playing a show, working on a show, or attending someone else's show. Else I might be at an art show, but seldom ever a fashion show. Sometimes I will go to a coffee lounge, and hope to catch a show. I never sit at home and watch T.V shows.

My plans for a militarized pterodactyl based water mellon launcher were rejected by the indonesian air force. Curses!

You have your head in the clouds, and you want to speak of spindly imaginary things.