Andres Amitai Wilson
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Musician/Writer |
| Location | Northampton, Massachusetts, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Andrés currently resides in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wife and musical collaborator, Asia Mei, and children, Eden and Liam. The son of musicians, he was named after the classical guitarist, Andrés Segovia. Andrés has earned degrees from the Berklee College of Music, Columbia University, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has learned Jewish texts at Yeshivat Hadar, and is currently a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in the program of Comparative Literature at UMass-Amherst, and an adjunct professor of philosophy at several other colleges in Western Massachusetts. He makes his living as a musician, writer, and educator. His début album INK & SOUND was named one of Boston's top five by Metronome Magazine in 2007 and his acoustic EP, CITYSCAPES & APPARITIONS was released digitally in January of 2013 (available for free downloads at www.andreswilsonmusic.bandcamp.com) His poetry, short fiction, and articles have appeared widely in print and on the web. Andrés considers himself culturally international but ideologically American, and loves the woods, bicycles, espresso, yoga, comparative religion, New England, and the guitar. www.andreswilson.com |
| Interests | poesis, guitar, comparative religion, yoga, meditation, trail running, triathlon, espresso, the Middle Ages, autobiography, bicycles, vegetarian gourmet, stand-up comedy, Jungian psychology, Africa and African Americans, New England, Dante, Classical Liberalism, samadhi, devekut, satori... |
| Favorite movies | Amarcord, Boyhood, The Band's Visit, Donnie Darko, Amélie, The Departed, Les 400 coups, Citizen Kane, the 10, Up, Woody Allen, The Future |
| Favorite music | Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, country guitar, Tribe Called Quest, Black Star, Guru, Hiatus Kaiyote, Django, the Pixies, Nirvana, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Brit pop, Duke Ellington, Edith Piaf, Megadeth, Metallica, Idan Raichel, J.S. Bach, Débussy, |
| Favorite books | Tanakh, La Divina Commedia, Bhagavad Gita, Thoreau, Wallace Stevens, Victor Hugo, Carl Jung, Hesse, Gautier, Jean Toomer, Dostoevsky, Le Petit prince, Les Misérables, Notre Dame de Paris, Mallarmé, Rimbaud, Kerouac, Camus, Ginsburg, Hesse, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, most Buddhist Books. |
Which do you prefer and why: whittling with soap or whistling with wood?
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