science, literature, art, biking, neurons, command line interfaces, sculpting urban spaces, absorbing rural spaces, recognizing non-linear patterns, houseplants, capoeira, hiphop, typography, photography, architecture, explaining things, fringies/weirdos/counterculture, cheap beer, good whiskey, kind buds, kittens, max/msp, pd, ableton live, general computer music making
Music
this list could on on forever, but this should give you a good idea
hiphop and the place where it shatters into a million broken aural fragments, prefuse73, dj shadow, dj krush, xela, lexuanculpt, funkstorung, nas, big l, blackalicous, lusine, telefon tel aviv, sigur ros, the mars volta, saul williams, EDiT, EVAC, mice parade, tortoise, the arcade fire, interpol, lusine, adam johnson, deceptikon, akufen, arovane, auch, autechre, beta band, bit meddler, bjork, bonobo, boards of canada, caribou/manitoba, nobody, fuckin jamie lidell, deadbeat, dntel, four tet, pedro, herbert, jega, crunch, jaga jazzist, cinematic orchestra, kettel, jimmy edgar, lackluster, lateduster, landau, mogwai, midwest product, mouse on mars, proem, phonem, pole, porn sword tobacco, proswell, rf, richard devine, sqaurepusher, tiki obmar, tipper, yasume, more, more, more, i can't stop
Television
i dont' have a tv, the internet
Books
Infinite Jest, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Oxford English Dictionary, Ken Wilber, Neal Stephenson, Marcel Proust, Godel Escher Bach, Calvino, Borges, Eco, et al et al et al. I like science textbooks a lot.
Harvard University Medical Sch
Boston,Massachusetts
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Ph.D.
Major: Neuroscience
Clubs: patch clamping, bike ridin, music freaks, cambridge crew
but mainly, brainaic maniac mac10
2005 to Present
University Of Kansas Main Campus
Lawrence, KANSAS
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: biochemistry + computer science
i spend most of my time trying to record tiny electrical currents and pulses of light from neurons and attempting to think not-as-tiny thoughts about it. its often a lot of frustration, but i don't know any other job that lets you use lasers and power tools, code, and bump my favorite jams everyday.
over the last 2 years my interests in music and in computers have collided in a painfully (in retrospect) obvious way, and i'm producing and djing in ableton live (mostly djing) when i have the time, and programming patches in max/msp. i'm hype to collab, so hit me up if you want to do something.
im: andrewgiessel
Who I'd like to meet: neuro kids, people in cambridge with deep deep record crates, (digital) artists, graff writers, fixie fiends, meditators, bright burners and deep thinkers
Great list of reading you have up. Have you gotten to Dan Simmons' Ilium and Olympos? One of the best combinations of textual science and fiction I've ever come across.
wow i'm so amped! okay...ya ever notice those offers sending to one another? me, honestly i thought it was a joke..., but i filled one out the other day, for a free cash card worth like $500 for Macys, and amazingly it did work i can't believe it. you should click here and grab one too, you see...?
Damn! Your comment made me dig out Takusagawa's note (c)...the agony. I particularly love the copyright symbol he put on there, considering that it seriously rips off Voet & Voet.
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