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PAUL AMROD is a composer, pianist and singer, my very good friend from Juilliard, now living and composing in Konstanz, Germany. |
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CONLON NANCARROW is one of my heroes, both because of his wonderful music, and the way he did it, in isolation in a foreign country with no peer support or concern for fame. |
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LAURIE SPIEGEL is another Juilliard friend and a great composer, who first encouraged me to work with synthesizers in 1972. |
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PAMELA Z is a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing and sampling technology. |
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MICHAEL ALEXANDER WILLENS is the music director for Das Orchester Damals und Heute, an ensemble based in Cologne which performs on both period and modern instruments. |
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ANDREW VIOLETTE is an extraordinary composer and first-class pianist. Another friend from Juilliard. |
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PHILIP AABERG is a composer and keyboardist with several solo albums and many collaborations in both pop and classical music projects, and the owner of Sweetgrass Records. |
| Music manufacturers, etc: | |
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Avid makes Pro Tools, the world's leading digital audio workstation. |
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Sibelius is the software I use to produce printed music. |
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Maui Xaphoon is an amazing little instrument that sounds like a cross between a clarinet and an alto sax and fits in a backpack. |
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GNMIDI Gunter Nagler's MIDI utilities. |
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DR. LARS KINDERMANN created MusicNum, a fractal music-generation program. |
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FRACTAL VIBES is an excursion into audio-visual experiences with fractals and Chaos Theory. |
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A musical experiment made possible by Mathematica and A New Kind Of Science |
| Other interests: | |
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Flexagon.net was created to provide a place for all those interested in flexagons. |
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The Grandiloquent Dictionary by C.S. Bird. Amazing real words that nobody will understand! Now I know I'm really just a xanthrochroid!
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Marijuana prohibition has failed. With its potential to bring in new taxes and help balance the budget, it's time for a new attitude. Marijuana Prohibition Project eads the way. |