MajorStudio2 Blog Roll
January 2007
January 29, 2007
January 25, 2007
Intro Blog
My name is Jay Rothman... I studied music composition at Washington University in St. Louis for my undergrad degree. After I graduated I worked in film doing things like script consulting, documentary associate producer, and technical supervisor for a video company. While I was working in film I was also studying sound design and music production with a producer at Harvestworks Studios in SoHo...I did that for about a year. My current classes at DT include Physical Computing, Max/MSP and Sound Design II which are all part of my initial vague masterplan for my thesis which I'd like to be a music-based multimedia piece performed live. I'm really interested in instrument design and audio controller design which I would like to be able to incorporate into the major studio class. I'm really interested in pursuing a similar goal to the Hyperinstrument Collective headed by Tod Machover at the Media Lab at MIT. You can find out more about them from their website located at http://www.media.mit.edu/hyperins/ And now...I'll list a bunch of things I like: Music - Radiohead, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Smiths, Air, Arvo Part, J.S. Bach, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Tim Hecker, Charles Mingus, and Miles Davis. Film - Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Orson Welles. Authors - Haruki Murakami, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka. Other - Roman History, Nikola Tesla, and physics.
My favorite childhood toy was one of the first video game systems ever made: Mattel's Intellivision. I'm pretty sure that when I was as young as two years old I was already playing Hockey and Snafu. Snafu was nothing more than four different lines that grew bigger and tried to trap the other lines on the screen, but I could play it for three hours at a time without getting sick of it. I've recently tried to find a version of the game Burger Time online but I have a Mac and they only offer it for PC's. If anyone knows where I can find it for Mac...