As of July, 2005

Graduated in June.  Here are a couple of videos of the instrument I built for my thesis. (For broadband.  Left-click to play in your browser.  Right-click or CTRL-click to download.)

Consulting for the music and math departments on a non-contextual analysis project aimed at accurate author attribution and other predictive functions for notated music.  Based on related work in the visual domain.

Designing a hardware interface that will make a MIDI keyboard appear to a computer like a standard USB computer keyboard.  Practice while you email...

Working with video artist CJ Stephens on a project for the AVA gallery.

Working on a mixed media piece based on these images of Baltimore.

Writing piano music.

Aside from music and engineering: Road cycling and mountain-biking, alpine, telemark, and skate-skiing, hiking, camping, snowshoeing, etc. If you love being outside, Dartmouth is a great place.

Music as "organized sound" is a safe but sterile idea.  Music as "language for the ineffable" is romantic but invites pretense.  Music as "I know it when I hear it" is good enough for me.  Formal philosophy is perhaps mostly a word game, but it's great fun. Exercise fosters peace of mind.  Life-partner decisions make all others look trivial.  When you die, you're just dead. Life is beautiful.

From outside Rochester, New York. Undergrad in Michigan (BSME). Spent a year in Silicon Valley. Two great parents and a sister with two beautiful kids back in New York.  Time spent in Japan, France and various American places keeps my wanderlust and fascination with things non-local strong, yet repeatedly confirms that New England feels like home.