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Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:29 pm
by hayze99
test recordings wrote:Kode 9 is a philosophy lecturer...
Yeh. Was well disappointed when I looked at his Twitter, though - must say.
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 8:46 pm
by particle-jim
test recordings wrote:Kode 9 is a philosophy lecturer...
no he isn't...
http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/steve-goodman/index.htm
He is a lecturer in music culture and the programme leader for MA sonic culture
if i had stayed on at uni he would have been my lecturer in my 2nd and 3rd years... I didn't find this out until after i had dropped out

Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 9:58 pm
by slothrop
Gusto wrote:I think I read somewhere that Caribou has a PhD in mathematics.
Yeah, modular forms, I think, roughly the same area I did mine in.
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:01 pm
by Shum
^ Nice one. I was always interested in modular forms (given their relationship with Fermat's Last Theorem) but my maths education ended up going down a different path.
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 10:39 pm
by noam
Jade (dnb producer) works on the Large Hadron Collider.
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 10:56 am
by test_recordings
particle-jim wrote:test recordings wrote:Kode 9 is a philosophy lecturer...
no he isn't...
http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/steve-goodman/index.htm
He is a lecturer in music culture and the programme leader for MA sonic culture
if i had stayed on at uni he would have been my lecturer in my 2nd and 3rd years... I didn't find this out until after i had dropped out

That's a pretty interesting profile compared to most faculty members

Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:07 am
by soulkids
ninjaman - badman, the original don gorgon

Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:22 am
by ashley
I work in IT
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:09 pm
by Electric_Head
I`m an engineer.
;D
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:36 pm
by murky21
Raekwon from Wu-Tang is a Michelin starred Chef
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 12:57 pm
by __________
I'm a software engineer
noam wrote:Jade (dnb producer) works on the Large Hadron Collider.
Interesting. A guy at work (also software engineer) was offered a job on that but turned it down. He 's a musician too.
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:07 pm
by Lichee
test recordings wrote:particle-jim wrote:test recordings wrote:Kode 9 is a philosophy lecturer...
no he isn't...http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/steve-goodman/index.htm
He is a lecturer in music culture and the programme leader for MA sonic culture
if i had stayed on at uni he would have been my lecturer in my 2nd and 3rd years... I didn't find this out until after i had dropped out

That's a pretty interesting profile compared to most faculty members

"1999, Ph.D in
Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick."
and to stop the hate on philosophy if it wasn't for Greek philosophers we wouldn't have logic and therefore modern mathematics and therefore the sudy of physics and what we understand about the world and the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_ ... losophicus
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 3:22 pm
by apmje
Doesn't say he was a Philosophy lecturer though, does it?

Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:12 pm
by test_recordings
Lichee wrote:test recordings wrote:particle-jim wrote:test recordings wrote:Kode 9 is a philosophy lecturer...
no he isn't...http://www.uel.ac.uk/hss/staff/steve-goodman/index.htm
He is a lecturer in music culture and the programme leader for MA sonic culture
if i had stayed on at uni he would have been my lecturer in my 2nd and 3rd years... I didn't find this out until after i had dropped out

That's a pretty interesting profile compared to most faculty members

"1999, Ph.D in
Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick."
and to stop the hate on philosophy if it wasn't for Greek philosophers we wouldn't have logic and therefore modern mathematics and therefore the sudy of physics and what we understand about the world and the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_ ... losophicus
Actually, without the Druids we might never have had 'Pythagorean Theorem'. Surveys of ancient sites in Britain revealed they were built in accordance with the maths Pythagoras is generally credited with created at least 1,000 years before the guy was born... Not only that, classical texts say he went to Britain to learn it!

Some Roman roads have also been found to be built on prehistoric remains of previous inhabitants and might even have inspired them to do the same rather than the other way around.
The Greeks were good and all that anyway but India and the other far east cultures have been just as important, if not more. Greek moral and existential philosophy is remarkably similar in some ways to Indian Buddhism (the 'middle way' of being, not being too ascetic and not being too indulgent). The 'Silk Road' was very influential in carrying ideas, Japanese and Greek mythology even has some of the same figures (e.g. both have a god that controls a bag of wind which can be released by loosening the string holding the bag closed). The Romans are also reckoned to have visited China at some point. India had a complex logical philosophy that included falsification, the sign of a true scientific theory, 1,000s of years before Europeans claimed to have 'invented' it. The view that 'Europe' developed as cultural entity separate from everywhere else is a delusion and bad history, check out 'The Decline Of The West' by Oswald Spengler to see where the trails get covered over and lost. Plenty of fascinating information around

Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:12 pm
by Shum
Lichee wrote:
and to stop the hate on philosophy if it wasn't for Greek philosophers we wouldn't have logic and therefore modern mathematics and therefore the sudy of physics and what we understand about the world and the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_ ... losophicus

Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:53 am
by ruckus49
Electric_Head wrote:I`m an engineer.
;D
what kind....
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 7:36 am
by Indigenous
ruckus49 wrote:Electric_Head wrote:I`m an engineer.
;D
what kind....
The engineering kind?
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 2:18 pm
by test_recordings
Indigenous wrote:ruckus49 wrote:Electric_Head wrote:I`m an engineer.
;D
what kind....
The engineering kind?
There's electrical, civil, pump, mechanical... long list, it generally relates to the area they specialise in
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:22 am
by nousd
probably a social engineer
Datsik gained a diploma from the Pond's Institute,
specializing in hand creams
but seriously,
isn't making (good) music a highly skilled job?
Re: musicians with highly skilled jobs
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:25 pm
by jowellz
sd5 wrote:probably a social engineer
Datsik gained a diploma from the Pond's Institute,
specializing in hand creams
but seriously,
isn't making (good) music a highly skilled job?
nah all u do iz jus mak noises nd tht.
I raged at some guy the other night for suggesting that composer/sound designer is not a viable career choice that requires skill.