Kirsty Beilharz
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Design, Creativity and Computing
- Not Another Box - Transformation
- Shakuhachi Stuff Writting 10 Minutes a Day
- Small Animal Talk
| Introduction | Interests include shakuhachi, photography, contemporary music, composition, sonification, interaction design, physical computing, robots, Zen, new musical instruments & interfaces, generative design, Japanese culture & shugyo, aikido, philosophy, molecular gastronomy, cycling, reading, art, information aesthetics, Swedish fiction, timbral ethnography. |
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| Interests | shakuhachi, photography, contemporary music composition, sonification, physical computing, interaction design, robots, new musical instruments & interfaces, Zen, generative design, Japanese culture & shugyo, running, aikido, molecular gastronomy, cycling, reading, philosophy, Buddhism, art, information aesthetics. |
| Favorite Music | Honkyoku [traditional Japanese shakuhachi music], Pierre Boulez, Michael Jarrell, Philippe Schoeller, Iannis Xenakis, Tristan Murail, contemporary French music from IRCAM composers, Helmut Lachenmann, Ferneyhough, Chausson, Monolake a.k.a. Robert Henke, Fennesz, Ryoji Ikeda, Sakamoto, Tool, Nickelback, Varese, Luciano Berio, Emilie Simon, Pink Floyd, Einstuerzende Neubauten, J.S. Bach, Ferran Savall-Mireu, Dhaffer Youssef, Björk, k.d.Lang, David Gilmour, Carla Bruni, Emilie Simon, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, James Dillon, Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss, Enka, Native American flute - R.Carlos Nakai, Kaoru Kakizakai Koten Shakuhachi Honkyoku, Katsuya Yokoyama. |
| Favorite Books | World Changing, Schroedinger Life & Thought, Paul Davies Goldilocks Enigma, Helmut Lachenmann Musik als Existentielle Erfahrung, Chris Blasdel - A Single Tone, Ray Brooks - Blowing Zen, Henning Mankell Wallander books, Stieg Larsson Millennium trilogy, Thomas Pyncheon - Gravity's Rainbow, Mitsugi Saotome - Aikido and the Harmony of Nature, Cipriani & Giri Electronic music & sound design, Depardon - Paris Journal, John Maeda - Creative Code, Pierre Boulez - Orientations, McArthur - The Arts of Japan, Dominique Buisson - Japan Unveiled, Henry Johnson - Koto, Xenakis - Formalised Music, Shunryu Suzuki - Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness, C.J. Lim - Devices, Igoe - Physical Computing, Curtis Roads - Microsound, David Toop Haunted Weather, Douglas Coupland's JPod (encapsulates the quintessence of contemporary geekdom), Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck Cookbook & Fantastical Feasts, Benjamin Fry Visualising Data, Japanese Photographs 60s & 70s Kaneko, iPad Development Wei-Meng Lee, Sound Unbound, Leigh Landy Understanding the Art of sound Organisation, Haruki Murakami, Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake, Tibetan Book of the Dead, Words of Gandhi, Total Recall by Gordon Bell, Toop & Boros (ed.s) Brian Ferneyhough Collected Writings, Paul Smith: You can find Inspiration in Everything, Warwicker's Floating World Ukiyo-e. |