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I am a multi-instrumental musician/songwriter who has worked in show-production on-and-off since 1988. I have also spent several years as a street performer, and played guitar and bass in a few bands. I am currently involved in the promotion, audio-production and technical coordination of shows for several local arts groups.
In January of 2008 I began using Debian and then UbuntuStudio operating systems on my computer, and have become a bit of an evangelist about it. Sometimes I miss CuBase, but I don't miss Windows one bit.
I record music using the Ardour Digital Audio Workstation, and am planning to set up a looping-performance system using either SooperLooper or Freewheeling in the near future. I also frequently use GIMP and Inkscape for graphic design; and I use OpenOffice and Scribus for desktop publishing. If it starts making me money I'll start spreading the wealth in those directions. Meanwhile I am working on improvements to the documentation for Ardour. As most of us now know, if you can't afford to buy it, they'll still let you use it.
I endured a year in electronics college after high school, and then chose to walk away and do most of my learning through self-education, which is known as autodiactism. It is because my first nine years of K12 were spent doodling, writing exams, and waiting to be taught something. I then spent several years learning what I had missed of the social intent of public schooling. You win some, you lose some.
I tore cartillage and ligaments in my knee when I was fourteen, and decided after a couple of years of successive re-injury that I needed to learn how to walk properly. This and natural teenage obsessions resulted in a long romance with the ways of the shadow-warriors; and ultimately led me to study Tai-Chi Chuan in 2001. I have come to believe that if Tai-Chi and Modern Dance were taught in K12 instead of gladiator-sports, there would be a dramatic and sustained reduction in sport and workplace injuries and deaths among youths. If not, at least we'd all be better dancers on prom night.
