avi leidner AMERICA NORTH: USA: California (CA) Visits: 13,816 Plays: 3,614 Downloads: 3,824 Rating:   (4.90) Your Rating Excellent Very Good Good Poor Dismal

I am a DJ, I just DJ'd, I was a DJ, I'm not DJing. I don't DJ, I will DJ. I do DJ, I DJ, I didn't DJ, I can DJ, I am a DJ, I just DJ'd, I was a DJ, I'm not DJing. I don't DJ, I will DJ. I do DJ, I DJ, I didn't DJ, I can DJ, (Bang head on wall with each phrase.)

I am not a biographer. (I am a photographer.) To make things more difficult, I don't feel anything good from talking about myself, even when asked. I don't feel anything good about talking about my experiences or ideas outside of a context where they might be of insightful help or necessity. Even then, I am apt to overrun the limits of utility and necessary information. But the biography section, here, is unfortunately an integral part of the process of extending myself and connection through the 'cloud'.

I've organized some basic information (in a crude form to expand and refine) as a first step. A lot of this is most likely inane and unnecessary, but . . . shove it, (no wait, I don't want to project my anger on the wrong people, this is, after all, my embarrassing dilemma) . . . I will be tending to it soon. Thank you for your indulgence.


Education -

Trade-Tech:
Institute of Audio Video Engineering : 1990
American Radio Network - 1991
Los Angeles City Theater Academy (Theater Technology) - 1992-95

Private:
Classical Piano & Music Theory (Theodora Primes)
Afro-Cuban percussion - (Bobby Matos)

Exchange Programs:

Congas, Bongo,Timbale, percussion programs intermediate thru advanced - Musica Traditional e Popular de Cuba:
Esquela Nacional Del Artisanias - Playas, Habana Cuba
1999, 2000, 2001

Additional Professional Technical Training:

Guitar Center Holywood, Tracoman Industries/Martin Stage Lighting Glendale, Angstrom Stage Lighting Hollywood


Bands - Principle/Founding Musician:

Irrelevant Rituals 1988-90
Ye Old English - 1991
Ocean Eleven - 1992-1998

- secondary/session musician:

Bobby Matos & The Heritage Ensemble - 1987-88
Section 8 - 1989-90
Hepcat - 1997-99
Rancid - 1998

Business -

Co-Owner, G.M., Producer, Engineer - Ocean Eleven Studios, Silverlake 1996-2000

Company Employment:
Guitar Center Hollywood, Angstrom Stage Lighting

Early DJ & Related Employment /collaborations -

L.A.C.T.A. - Music Arrangement, Sound Design, Video Program design & Installation
Goldenvoice Productions - DJ (specialized - billed Ska shows)

House DJ -

Club:
Sin-A-Matic W. Hollywood (Fetish Room) - 1996-2000


Current DJ Platforms (live):
Digital (Tracktor Scratch, DJay, Live, Live Stage), 2X CD Decks/mxr/+/-dub rig/other

depressed

POSTED ON: 01/05/09 18:49:36

Apologies - Avi Leidner psych system has been loosing power over the last 3 weeks (as of 01/05/09) and is running under condition - DEPRESSION (as of 01/01/09) iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiierpersonal relations may be very slowed, delayed in response or momentariilllllyyyyy ssussspended, medical advice is pendin g g g ggg, other areas affected, work, projects, self-improvement, baseline mental stability (dropping at continuout interval) intel process ng cre8ive faculs. please b patient.) This message going out to all exchange systemnetworkinvolvement site comm hub project simul. no capacity for individuALL MULTIPLE ADDRESSING.

and what have i got?

POSTED ON: 11/06/08 03:07:22

I gotah pain in meh belly i've got a bad liver, and a broken heart i got all the images of sex acts and torture that ever took place anywhere i got the fear i've got a name for every pain i call company. i've got no place to go and people to avoid i've got a halo, wings, horns and a tail i've got a long temper and a short story i've got nothing special i've got the world on a string i've gotten nowhere i've got to get i've got dreams of hope i've got a past that just won't quit i've got a habit, and it's all mine. i got it, i got it, i . . . no wait, no, i lost it.

re : last

POSTED ON: 10/31/08 03:34:10

Disregard last blog entry. Just copied some personal notes that were handy to see how it looked. Not an 'actual' BLOG.

where we came in

POSTED ON: 10/30/08 20:16:48

technology and the theater of cruelty Incorporating venn categories into E.V.E. schema - Aesthetics, Theory, Mathematical and Statistical Principles Contributing texts - Artaud -Theater Of Cruelty additional citation of Nietzsche's Aesthetics that art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience. - remove aesthetic distance, bringing the audience into direct contact with the dangers of life. By turning theatre into a place where the spectator is exposed rather than protected Artaud put the audience in the middle of the 'spectacle' (his term for the play), so they would be 'engulfed and physically affected by it'. He often referred to this layout as like a 'vortex' - a constantly shifting shape. New Light on 2 fave composers - Ernő Lendvai analyzed Béla Bartók's works as being based on two opposing systems, that of the golden ratio and the acoustic scale, though other music scholars reject that analysis. In Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta the xylophone progression occurs at the intervals 1:2:3:5:8:5:3:2:1. French composer Erik Satie used the golden ratio in several of his pieces, including Sonneries de la Rose+Croix. His use of the ratio gave his music an otherworldly symmetry. posit environmentally, if 'golden' geometric constructs based on the ratio - (ex - rectangle) are cognition analogues of the abstract descriptive "background of perfect nature"/perfect harmony, then 'golden' proportions and spacial relationships might be ideal in 'background' element architecture of the E.V.E. physical environment.