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Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Lab. This is a collection of things that intrigue me, and here are some things I've made. xx

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#Theremin performance today

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Got to rehearse this piece with an amazing #violinist the other day. Inspired to work on my articulation. So much more to learn! #theremin #etherwave #bach #violin #concerto #baroque #classical #musician

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Back to basics. The Swan by Saint-Saëns. . . . #theremin #moog #music #electronicmusic #classicalmusic #musician #practice #etherwave (at Beacon Hill, Massachusetts)

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XOXO Nocturne Original #composition by Jeff Pagano. Jeff on #piano, me on #theremin. (at Bywater, New Orleans)

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“The Ancient Sea” Jeff Pagano - #composer + live #piano Me - #Theremin + recorded piano #loop Full video here: http://youtu.be/Eh_-ubrSZdY (at Bywater, New Orleans)

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Opening of Lester Young’s version of🎵There Will Never Be Another You🎵 . . . #theremin #moog #etherwave #sax #electronicmusic #jazztheremin #jazzstandard #jazz #music #musician #instavid #practice

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That note sliding!

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Today is the five month anniversary of the love affair between the #theremin and me. To celebrate the occasion, here a piece by the #minimalist #mystic #composer Arvo Pärt called Spiegel im Spiegel (Mirror in the Mirror). I first heard this piece in the film Heaven, about an unlikely pair of #soulmates who share a birthday, which just happens to be the day I started learning this instrument. It sounds like there is singing in the recording, but that is just an aural #illusion overtones. . . . #music #classicalmusic #contemporarymusic #electronicmusic #violin #piano #musician #performance #minimalism

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New hobby: making #theremin covers of my favorite #piano repertoire! 🎹👌🏻 . . . #etherwave #moog #electronicmusic #musician #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #ravel #concerto (at Beacon Hill)

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#theremin + #piano duet with myself playing The Swan by Saint-Saens . . . #moog #etherwave #classicalmusic #electronicmusic #musician #music #practice #progress (at Beacon Hill)

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The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

William Hazlitt

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Teas(e) - 2009. pencil, ink, and conté on tea stained paper... back when I drew recreationally

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Whenever I catch myself playing something that sounds mechanical but dead, it’s because either I’m not paying attention or it’s something difficult that I haven’t solved. Sort of like a physicality issue that, you know, sudden tension, so I freeze up and become more internalized, so I can’t love it. Loving something implies going outside yourself and fear means retreating into yourself. I’m scared. Well, go back into yourself. That’s a metaphor for societal fears when a whole people are scared of something that they can’t control and sort of hits them, what do they do? It becomes more tight, they will make much, much more conservative decisions. The counteracting of that is culture. Hey, wait a minute, I want to know what that fear is. I’m going to research that fear. What exactly is that fear? Is it exactly what I think it is? Is that what I feel or can I analyze it? What’s the truth behind the fear? So you kind of have to look at that—that’s a key in performance. When someone performs, you want that person to be open and not to have any barriers. Any barriers that are set up between the performer and the audience actually impedes the communication of what needs to be.

Yo-Yo Ma on Intonation, Practice, and the Role of Music in Our Lives – Strings Magazine (via sonateharder)

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We (the undivided divinity operating within us) have dreamt the world. We have dreamt it as firm, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its architecture we have allowed tenuous and eternal crevices of unreason which tell us it is false.

Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise

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