hello everyone

[rlin]

Hello,
I'm a multimedia artist/filmmaker/sound artist/musician+composer living in the Midwest, just about to show a sound art project in Taiwan, and getting ready to undertake a large site-specific (hopefully interactive) sound installation in the coming fall.

In my day-to-day life I teach at a university and work in everything from stop-motion animation to foley art to generative sound production via programs like Puredata to interactivity with robots and kinetic/robotic sculptures. I started down this path as a jazz singer, classical cellist, oldtime clawhammer banjo player, EDM + hip hop DJ/turntablist, and radio addict. Needless to say, sound and music have always been huge parts of my life!

Recently I've begun renting a great studio space that I can finally turn into the music/sound studio I've always wanted, and I'll also begin touring with a couple of bands and doing more live performances. Thus, given that I'll be up to my neck in amps and speakers and wires and so on on a day-to-day basis, and as I'd like the very best studio hi fi setup available within my budget, I figured I would try to learn as much as I could about the subject-- which is how I discovered this forum, and well, here I am. Thanks in advance for your advice and knowledge! :)

All the best,
-Rachel

[aquapiranha]

Hi Rachel. It sounds like you lead a very interesting life! I hope you find all the info you need, and stick around for a chat too.

Steve

[Alex_UK]

Hi Rachel, welcome to AoS. As Steve says, it does sound like you have a very interesting life and I suspect lots of us are very intrigued by your bio, so if we get to find out a bit more along the way then I'm sure we'll all learn something.

Anyway, ask away with your questions - quite a few of us are UK based but plenty from your side of the pond as well to help too (we tend not to have as much of the US gear over here so our knowledge may not be quite as good there.) I am sure we will all be very happy to help if we can.

Enjoy the forum. :)

[John]

Welcome to AOS Sounds like you live a very rich and varied life
I hope we can help

[YNWaN]

Welcome aboard Rachel.

[Techno Commander]

Hello Rachel, hope you enjoy yourself here.

Taiwan is an amazing place, make sure you visit Taipei 101 and some of the night markets. :)

[Reid Malenfant]

Hello Rachel :)

Great place to be & i'm quite new here myself ;) Just echoing what others have said, welcome to the forum & i hope you find your stay worthwhile & you have a good time 2331

[Marco]

Hi Mark,

That attachment's not working, dude :)

Welcome to the forum, Rachel! :cool:

Marco.

[Barry]

Hello Rachel,

Welcome to AoS. Hope you enjoy yourself here. Female members are thin on the ground, in this testosterone heavy forum! We need to do something about it.

Ask all the questions you like and we'll try to help as much as we can.

Trust you will stick around - you have such an interesting career that I'm sure you will be able to make some interesting posts, and give us all plenty to discuss.

Welcome once again.

Regards

[rlin]

Thanks, everyone-- believe me, I'll definitely have lots of questions coming up soon, and likewise, I'm looking forward to sharing whatever I might be able to contribute to discussion.

Sorry it's taken me a couple of days to reply. I'm completely inundated with work in preparation for the Taiwan show, so if I'm slow to respond, that's why. The bittersweet thing about the whole situation is that I actually won't be able to go to Taiwan because I've been awarded an artist's residency position in Chicago through the end of August, so I have to work and coordinate with the folks in Taiwan remotely. There will be other shows, I guess-- and hopefully more in Taiwan from now on.

In a few weeks my life will settle down significantly, and you'll see a lot more of me then.

All the best from the land of limestone and bicycle movies,
-Rachel