Artist at present, scientist and technologist in the past. I was born in Russia, spent some years in the UK, live in Israel, and generally trying not to stay in the same one place for too long.

Art, contact improvisation, some technology consulting.

Not explaining what a married man is doing on OKC. Observing, sensing, listening, learning, sharing knowledge, shutting up.

Recently I find myself reading less literature and more textbooks: phylosophy, art, neuroscience and psychology of consciousness... Otherwise: Dostoyevsky, Bulgakov, Agnon, Eco, Meir Shalev, Cortázar ...
Now on my desk: "Peltomaki's "Situation Aesthetics", Юрий Тынянов "Кюхля"

I don't watch TV...
Movies: Tarkovsky, Otar Iosseliani, Jarmusch. Also "When You're Strange", "The Pirates of the Caribbean", "Shortbus". British series: Sherlock, Black Mirror.

Music: Arcane, Laurie Anderson, Archie Shepp, John Coltrane (especially his take on "My Favorite Things"), Blockhead, Avishai Cohen, Jah Wobble, Carla Kihlstedt ("2 foot yard" project mostly), Joanna Newsom (Ys), Kaki King ("Legs..."), King Crimson, the non-soundscape Robert Fripp, Tortoise, John Zorn (ones I can manage all the way through), Pink Floyd, Sigur Ros, Nick Cave (mostly post-2000 "Bad Seeds"), Kate Bush (Aerial is a masterpiece), Johnny Cash (his covers from the American Recordings more than his own), Bill Laswell's projects (esp. The Method of Defiance "Inamorata"), Led Zeppelin.
Chopin's nocturnes, Mozart (violine sonatas, Von Karajan's "Requiem"), Menuhin playing Bach.
Russian stuff: Аквариум, АукцЫон
etc etc etc - 7500+ tracks on the iPod

Food: Italian, French, Japanese, Middle Eastern.

Always open to new favorites

9:
robe for the summer
robe for the winter
pair of shoes
begging bowl for food
mosquito net
prayer book
umbrella
mat to sleep on
pair of glasses

prayer book is a lie.

I'd always prefer a nice meal and a good conversation to bars and parties.

My wife knows.

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