About Sounds of Science : the team.
John: project founder, project manager, drummer
John LaCava (aka Dr. Weird Love) grew up in MA, just a young punk from the wrong side of the tracks. He got sucked into science while studying biotechnology at MassBay Community College. He then moved to CA and graduated as a biotech major from UC Davis; PhD in molecular genetics from Edinburgh University, Scotland, several years later, and continued on to carry out post-doctoral work at other European institutions. After 'researching' his way across Europe, he jumped back across the pond, and is now situated at Rockefeller University, NYC. John has been an amateur drummer since being a teenager and is probably amongst the least talented of all the musicians in this group, though he can generally bring the funk when called upon. John is obsessed with fusing all his interests into one master interest and with bridging the gap between pop culture and research science. Having managed to inspire a phenomenally talented group of individuals and bring them together, Sounds of Science was born ...
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Dan: producer, musician
Dan Kramer began formally studying piano when he was 8, and saxophone when he was 9. By age 15, he had taught himself to play bass, drums and guitar. He received his bachelor's degree from NYU in music technology, with a minor in physics. After college, Dan worked as a television and computer monitor repairman, while building his catalogue of music. He has worked for the past six years as a music producer, and he is the bass player for the punk band Kabona Zombies.
http://governmentbeats.com/
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Nicole: producer, musician
Nicole Jung (aka Khoom) is an electronic musician who's background stems from years as a classical musician in Hawai’i. Enivitably landing in New York City, she got a B.A. in Music Technology at NYU. Nicole has performed in various venues as a live PA artist around NYC and internationally. Nicole often works in collaboration with other artists as a sound designer. Past projects have included collaborations with the Proto-type theatre, (a)muse collective, AiiBAG Design Studio, and photographer Scott Davis. Her work has been shown in NYC, Russia, and Hawai’i. Nicole lends a big chunk of her work to creating interactive performance systems, driven by live looping and sampling. The bed of her sound and rhythmic patterns are often inspired by nature and the human voice. Bringing together disciplines of traditional musical form and the flexibilities of digital sound manipulation, Nicole is in a constant aim to create unique experiences in sound and space.
links: myspace1 myspace2 www.bubl-lab.com
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James: producer, musician
James Carozza is an A/V technician at Rockefeller University. He was educated at SUNY New Paltz, Center for the Media Arts, and NYU.
He is the technical coordinator for the Imagine Science Film festival and has recorded musicians / bands in local NYC venues such as Bowery
Poetry Club and Jazz at Lincoln Center. Jim plays guitar and bass in various local bands, none famous yet...
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Peter: Pianist
Peter Insley was born in LA shortly before he was shuttled, as an infant, across the country to his childhood home in Baltimore. He later attended Columbia University where he majored in physics and mathematics. He worked in computational chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires before joining Rockefeller University in 2008, where he is pursuing his doctorate in developmental genetics. He has been playing the piano avidly for about ten years; he is a fan of Chopin, Janacek, and Faure.
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Jackie: Cellist
Jaclyn Novatt (aka Dr. Duck) plays with bacteria because they're easier to understand than people are. Plus, if bacteria do something stupid, she can pour bleach on them and no one gets upset. She is currently finishing up her research at The Rockefeller University, and is excited to start her next gig at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She moonlights as a cellist, having played locally with the NY Symphonic Arts Ensemble and the Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra. She's married and lives way out in the boondocks of suburban Long Island.
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Pinar: Vocalist
Pinar Ayata started taking flute lessons at the age of 14. She has played in a jazz project band and in a progressive rock cover band, in addition to classical solo performances. She continued singing in classical choirs until she found herself as the lead singer of a jazz-fusion band that transformed her musical passion towards jazz singing and taught her a lot about music. She temporarily joined a jazz vocal workshop until she moved from Istanbul to New York to pursue her PhD at Rockefeller University.
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Picasso: musician / artist
Picasso Dular has been a singer/song writer for more than 20 years; from the island of Oahu to Chicago and now in New York. Picasso's musical journey began with hip-hop and at the early age of ~6 years old. He got involved with dancing and developed a sense of timing and understanding of rhythm through street dance. As he got older he was involved with writing lyrics and making beats as well as fine tuning his dance career by taking lyrical jazz, ballet, and dabling in theater. Picasso slowly started to step out of hip-hop and dance into a rock/alternative sound and from there he began teaching himself to sing and play guitar. Finally he evolved into a creative force that can play mutiple instruments and sing as well as record and develop sound.
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Adria: photographer
Adria Le Boeuf grew up in California, acting, singing and dancing on every stage available to her. At numerous points in time, she has attempted to bid fairwell to the arts and focus purely on science. It never works. Now, in addition to working on her Ph.D. on the biophysics of hearing she directs an ongoing improvisational theater group for scientists-in-need, does bio-art film projects, photography, and various musical collaborations.
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Manon: photographer
Manon Cederroth was born November 18, 1982 in Geneva, Switzerland. In parallel with her schooling, she progressed in professional dance and obtained a scholarship to strengthen her skills in Berlin, and later on in Munich, Germany. At the age of 16, she decided to come back to Geneva to begin another professional life as a researcher in a biological laboratory. During this period, she further developed other passions such as photography and drawing.
For Manon, photography became a tool to express emotions, different psychological states and life experiences, a way of putting her mind on paper. In the depths of her heart, she hopes that one day, by learning what soul is, she will be able to represent the mind through images.
Check out her website.
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Juliet: web designer
Juliet Zhang is a neuroscientist by day and web designer by night. She has a cat named Damion, enjoys wine and rooftops, and lives in Brooklyn.
She designed and made this website. Other sites of hers are:
tillperfect.net and graypigeon.com
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