1. Have you applied for the Red Bull Music Academy before? If so, when & how many times?

No, I haven’t applied before. This is the first (of many.)

2. Indicate which of the following titles apply to you (of course, you can circle more than one!)

Producer, Vocalist: hip hop, beat box

3. What’s your occupation? If you are a student, what do you study?I just finished my Fine Arts Honours Degree in Visual Studies,

minoring in Architectural Studies at the University of Calgary. I’ll be going to the University of Toronto to obtain a Masters in

Architecture in the Fall of 2011.

4. What’s on your demo? Mix or own music? Released or unreleased?My demo contains my own music, unreleased.

5. How would you describe your style(s) of music?My music is all about merging polar opposites and creating

emotionally charged moodscapes. The beats are both diversely genre-crossing, varying and progressive, and mix elements of

house, dubstep, drum and bass, acid jazz, hip hop and other types. I like chopped volume cutoff, but I also like to apply effects

like reverberation, delay and use a lot of orchestral sampling.

6. What musical endeavour(s) have you been involved in during the last 12 months?

Since I’ve been so busy, I’ve done a couple shows, mostly informal beatboxing. My music is usually kept on the down low. I don’t know what to tell you since I don’t really get out much in terms of the music I make. I made five house/electro tracks over the recent reading week break and at least one of them will end

up on this demo CD.

8. What inspired you to become involved in music, whether as a DJ, producer, musician or in some other capacity? When did that moment of inspiration strike?

My friend of almost two decades, known now musically as Ninetynine, gave me a version of Fruity Loops. I worked with it for three years, then got into Reason 4 and have been on that for about five years. I was first inspired by an audio tape by Pete Rock and CL smooth to enjoy rap music. My brother

picked it up on a trip to Vancouver when I was like six years old. My first taste of electro music was listening to the Prodigy and Chemical Brothers. As per

beatboxing, I always mimicked sounds in my environment, dogs, fire trucks, whatever. A few years later I got into it when I heard it was an actual talent to

be pursued or developed.

I am here

7. »This is where I am in relation to the musical universe« Please draw us a map!

9. What do you expect to get out of the Academy personally?I want the experience. I want to meet legends and learn tricks of

the trade, or to just iron out all the kinks in my music in one fell swoop. Just to get full out inspired would be awesome. I have

so much to learn and would really benefit from the experience. To put it short, I would rock the place. My personality is huge,

and I have so much love to give. I think that I would make things happen that otherwise wouldn’t. Trust me.

10. Which three artists would you like to hear lecture at the Academy? What’s the most urgent question you would like to ask each of them?

I would love to hear Daft Punk speak. I would say, “what happened to Charlie the dog, and what do you think Tron will do

for your next album?” The Chemical Brothers have always been an alltime favorite.

I would ask them “what x-factor kept you going for so long making music without stopping?”

The last would probably be BT. I would be like “Yo, BT, what program are you on and how to you get the beats so crisp and

side chain the synth without loss”

11. Where did you get your musical education or comparable experiences? I learned all of it on my own. No workshops, nothing. The

internet is great for free information. Listening is a skill I need to work on in terms of personal relations, but in terms of music, I

think I got it down.

12. Who and what are your main influences?99/Aesop Rock/Andy McKee/Alan Braxe/Bob Marley & The Wailers/The Crystal Method/Basement Jaxx/Boys Noize/Booka Shade/Cassius/Chemical Brothers/Classified/Crookers/Daft Punk/Damien Marley/Decoder/The Decemberists/Digable Planets/DJ Premier/DJ Shadow/Eyedea & Abilities/Empire of the Sun/Felix Da Housecat/The Glitch Mob/Grizzly Bear/Hot Pink Delorean/James Lavelle/Jamiroquai/Jody Wisternoff/José González/Justice/Keane/Kenna/of Montreal/MF Doom/Michael Franti/Official /Mr Scruff/Orbital/MSTRKRFT/Neil Young/Ominous/Onra/Peanut Butter Wolf/Pendulum/The Prodigy/Queens of the Stone Age/Rilo Kiley/Sedat the Turkish Avenger/Skream/Siriusmo/Smashing Pumpkins/Stromae/A Tribe Called Quest/Technical Itch/The Temper Trap/Wisin & Yandel/Wolfgang Gartner

13. Which technical set-up do you usually utilize for your musical activities? Please list the gear you use.

I’m very simple with my music. I can’t usually afford big equipment so I roll with the basics, my mouth, voice box and my

laptop, loaded with Ableton Live and Reason 5.

14. Do you prefer to work on music by yourself or with others?I mostly work on music by myself. I don’t usually collaborate,

since the process is very personal.

15. Do you perform music live or as a DJ? What does that sound and look like?I like to perform live, but I haven’t done it since I was in a group

with Ninetynine, back in ‘06. My beats sound awesome live. Better than in my house, annoying the neighbours with heavy

basslines and a probable vacuum running in the background with my mom telling me to turn the music down. There was

visuals at my first gig, but they were not my own. I’m also a very fine artist and could easily make my own in the near future.

16. On a scale from 0 to 10 (0 being “not at all”, 10 “brilliant”), how would you rate your own skills in each of the following areas?

Producing: 9Engineering: 6

Software: (Reason 5.0, Abelton Live, FL Studio) 8Live instruments: (Guitar) 4

Vocals: (Hip hop) 7 (Beatboxing) 8DJing: 0 (non-existant)

17. Which of these skills would you like to improve, and what would you like to learn about specifically?

I would love to improve engineering, and beatboxing, but I would mainly enjoy learning about production and advancing

my current style. For beatboxing, I want a vast array of wierd bass noises, to make experimental sounding fusions to get

these crazy ideas out of my head so people can enjoy the same imaginative experiences without the need for telepathy. For

production, I want a very specific sound, a housy beat with heavy kicks and snare-claps, with perfect mastering to make it sound

legit.

18. Do you produce tracks or write music? If so, what was your most recent work, and how would you describe it?

I produce tracks. Right now [03.12.2011] I just finished a rhyme, and I’m going to put it to a beat and play it to the class with my current architecture animation project. It’s going to be a subtle

call-out to this girl, lyrics revolving around mind games and reciprocity. The cleverness cancels out potential offensiveness

and she is the only one who would really get it. As for the beat, it’s like dubstep meets house. (Entitled Sake) The kicks are heavy and compressed and the drums are simplified. [04.21.2011] It ended

up that I used some of J-Dilla’s instrumentals, since they were easier to flow to.

19. If you have released any music, please let us know where, when and what it was?

No dice. I didn’t.

20. Briefly outline your musical “career” to date - include high and low points.My career is embarrassingly low-key. Almost invisible. I’ve done

about 10 beatboxing shows, meaning anything from a paid performance to a “why don’t you get up on stage and ask if you

can beatbox with the band.” I would say my music hit a low point in the last two years because I’ve been so busy trying to make

my architectural identity come together. The high points are whenever I come up with that one track, you know the one you

put on a loop for hours and jive to.

23. Please list the music on your application media (please include

artists, titles & labels). Indicate clearly which tracks are your own

productions, whether they are part of a mix or separate tracks, or both.

Please make sure you write the track list down here - as well as on

the application media (Yes, this means twice)!

1. Vortext

2. Waterfly 3. Sake 4. Fact

5. Cano 6. Vai Com Isso, Pera ai

7. Paper Work 8. Memphis Emphasis

9. Phoenix Scenics10. The Oddity

11. Athens Journey12. Apoplexy

13. Kapital Enemy Anthem

6:09 4:10 5:47 5:45 5:59 2:16 6:26 4:00 4:32 3:24 2:36 3:10 3:04

99/ALAN BRAXE/THE CRYSTAL METHOD/BASEMENT JAXXBOYS NOIZE/BOOKA SHADECASSIUS/CHEMICAL BROTHERSCROOKERS/DAFT PUNK/DECODEREMPIRE OF THE SUN/FELIX DA HOUSECAT/THE GLITCH MOBGUY J/HOT PINK DELOREAN/JAMES LAVELLEJODY WISTERNOFF/JUSTICEOFFICIAL/MR SCRUFF/ORBITALM S T R K R F T / O M I N O U S / O N R A P E N D U L U M / P N A U / T H E PRODIGY/SEDAT THE TURKISH A V E N G E R S K R E A M / S I R I U S M O /

AESOP ROCKC L A S S I F I E DDAMIEN MARLEYD I G A B L E P L A N E T S / D J P R E M I E R / D J SHADOW/EYEDEA & ABILITIES/MF D O O M / P E A N U T BUTTER WOLFA TRIBE CALLED Q U E S T / W I S I N & YANDEL

ANDY MCKEEBOB MARLEY & THE WAILERSTHE DECEMBERISTS/GRIZZLY BEAR/IAN BROWNJAMIROQUAI/JOSÉ GONZÁLEZKEANE/KENNA/MICHAEL FRANTINEIL YOUNG/SMASHING PUMPKINSQUEENS OF THE STONE AGE/RILO KILEYTHE TEMPER TRAP/TOM PETTY/XX

21. We’d like to know how you organize your music/record collection. Which style demands the biggest space? What is your favourite genre? To visualize this, please draw us a map of your music/record collection.

All my music is on my old laptop in the form of .mp3 and .wav files. I date it and give it a stupid title, usually one that gets changed. As for my inspiration, I keep all my music on that

laptop as well, and listen to new stuff only. I have a collection scattered in my hard drive, and a playlist of about 100 of my favorite tracks on my youtube account. My favorite genre is

probably upbeat and optimistic electro, steering towards house.

»Text Map

Chromeo- She’s in Control [Turbo] Chromeo is great music if you feel played by any woman and want control

over your emotions. It’s a great release from love songs that promote shameless attachment without reality or alternate angles. Chromeo also

called themselves the only successful Jewish-Arab partnership since the dawn of humanity.

Kid Koala- Some of my Best Friends are DJs [Ninja Tune]Kid Koala is, for lack of a better word, wierd. Scratching, introverted style,

awkward moments put in motion and expressed through blips, bleeps and sound bytes.

Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles (2010 album) [No label]Maybe not the best live performances, where the main chick just screams into

the mic like there’s nothing to perform for, but the music in it’s digital form is great, and totally work hearing. They use 8-bit sound and push a mellow

melody through a diverging system that bifurcates old and new sound.

Holy Fuck- Red Lights [Dependent Music]These guys have a geek liscence to produce improvisational music and videos featuring cats that play instruments for you. Randomness always had its place

in music- and that’s hope.

25. What is your personal current top ten? Please include artists, titles & labels.1 Ian Pooley- My kicks (Vincenzo and Lovebirds mix)

2 Ida Engberg and David West- Abataka 3 Hoodie Allen- Joy and Misery

4 Stromae- Peace or Violence5 Axwell- It’s True

6 The Wamdue Project- Forgiveness7 PNAU- The Truth

8 Breakbot- Baby I’m Yours9 BT- The Emergency

10 Underworld- Two Months Off

22. Do you contribute to any (music) media as a journalist, photographer, film maker etc.?

No but I kind of blog my music on my facebook account. Wish I did though. I usually turn my architecture projects into music

videos to showcase my sound.

24. Name the ten albums & tunes from your country (or city) that you definitely have to play to your fellow participants at the Academy. We’d also like to know why each of them is worth talking about. Please include artists, titles & labels.

Ominous- untitled [unknown label] This guy Ken Bishop is the #1 beatboxer in my hometown of Calgary, AB. I did

a show right after him and still got the same applause. Awesome. Even if it was just out of respect.

Tiga- Mind Dimension [Turbo Recordings]

Tiga is a crazy house sound, prestigious name artist, with a very unique take on making digital music.

Afuken- My Way [Musique Risquée] The song Jeep Sex is ultimately one of the funniest and happiest tracks I’ve

heard. This music is very experimental.

Deadmau5- Ghosts n’ Stuff (Feat. Rob Swire) [Mau5trap]Deadmau5 is one of the darker electronic artists, sweeping the music industry and producing like crazy! Mad props to this guy for changing electronica and

giving Canada a good name.

Ill-Esha- Circadian Rhythms [Breakbeat Science]Ill-Esha shows some cool dubstep scapes off in incredibly energetic and

empathic live shows. She also represents for Canadian women as artists in the electronic community, also very commendible.

A-Trak- Dirty South Dance [Fool’s Gold Records]

You may know A-trak from the Duo with Armand van Helden, known as “Duck Sauce”, they play the hit single “Barbara Streisand”. Hilarious.

26. What are your ten all time favourite albums? What makes each of them special for you?

Daft Punk- Tron Soundtrack (A symphonic approach by probably my alltime favorite arist)

BT- These Hopeful Machines (Amazing love songs, very deep + thoughtful lyrics)

Aesop Rock- Daylight (I still dont understand the lyrics after all these years, very complex, and

super-intellectual, without being the emperor’s new cloak.)

Stromae- Cheese (I just got this. Amazing French house and the vocals make me want to learn

the language of love)

Chemical Brothers- Dig Your Own Hole (First stages of inspiration in music, amazing beats)

MF Doom- Madvillainy (Thought provoking rhyme, dope flow, love that song Americas Most Blunted)

Boyz Noise- Oioioi (Dirty ass beats, so sick when the beats drop. You have an artist that can come

up with wicked German techno, minus certain songs that sound way too analogue and 8-bit for my liking.)

Onra- Long Distance (Great lyrics, slow rhythms make me think of love and moving forward in life.)

Prodigy- Fat of the Land (One of the first Electro Albums I ever listened to. I love the combination of

hard lyrics and pulsing energy)

Niel Young- Harvest (So many amazing feelings attached to Niel Young.)

27. Imagine you’re the DJ of the night (even if you have never DJed). It’s peak time, everyone’s going strong. Which five tracks will you put on? Include artists, titles & labels.

Underworld- Two Months Off, Ian Pooley- My kicks (Vincenzo and Lovebirds mix), Digitalism- Blitz, Breakbot- Baby Im Yours,

Guy J- Skin

28. A few hours later, you’re playing at the afterhours party. The sun is about to rise. Now you’ll have to think of another five tracks to fit that mood! Include artists, titles & labels.

Keane- Spiralling, BT- Satellite, AZ- The Format, Telefon Tel Aviv- The Worst Thing in the World, Daft Punk- Finale

29. Fast forward to the next evening. Your in-laws are coming to dinner. What music are you going to put on (and what are you gonna cook)?

I’m going to cook a mean Steak Diane. I mean I have to impress them, right? I’m going to keep it formal and play some respectful

music, something fun merging their generation with ours. Something like Digitalism’s mix of The Avalanches by Wham! If

I’m merging families with the girl I love I better do my best to show them I care about where they come from. Peace love.

30. What’s the title of your autobiography?Sake

31. What do you collect besides music?I collect lady-friends when I have time, like a player, except I rack

up dates in an ethical way and don’t make physical moves on girls in relationships. I’m looking for the right one, and it turns out the closest thing I can find is always completely unsure of

themselves, a lead-on, or emotionally masochistic to themselves in an attempt to gain approval. I like going out once in a while and getting the most beautiful woman’s number, or at least a

look and conversation. School is definitely the priority. I also collect clothes, and wear them, on good days.

32. What’s lying next to your bed?Probably my dog, Tommy, a Bichon Shih-Tzu, laying in a pile of

dirty clothes or on top of an important legal document.

33. What’s the most interesting book you’ve read lately? Why should we read it, too?

Oh. So good. It’s called “More Sex is Safer Sex”. You should read it; it challenges modern notions which are extensively

stupid about the ‘evils’ of economic prosperity and extremities of wealth. It taught me about the awesomeness of wealthy

individuals, especially those who are miserly. Groundbreakingly ethical statements meant to counter social issues like jealousy from percieved inequality. According to this account, wealthy

citizens are amazing for the economy and have a similar effect to philanthropy when miserly. Read it and you’ll think the age-old

poppy anti-establishment message is completely unfounded and a regurgitation of repressed and perpetual Marxist envy

and whiny glorifications of violent “revolution.” Not to worry, my economic stance usually doesn’t show up uninvited and I always

share. Jobs not slobs, bub.

34. Which are your three favourite movies?1 City of God

2 The Matrix Trilogy 3 The Last King of Scotland

35. What’s the one thing you can’t live without and why?Respect. Empathy. I speak love, and even though I’m a little brash

and like to confront big issues, I stand up for the rights of every individual with hopefully gentle asserion. I’m like anti-utilitarian.

I believe in the human heart.

36. What was the funniest thing that happened to you in the last few months? Or, if nothing comes to mind, at least tell us your favourite joke.

I’m hanging out with the girl of my dreams, the girl of my nightmares, my prof and peers falling on different spectra of

tolerability. Waitress, scantily clad and provokative, emits signals for courtship and mating to which I advance in slight- to evoke

jealous sentiments. I ask of a phone number from such a lady, who insisted I visit her on some sort of daily basis following her

response “I’m sorry, I don’t do phone numbers.” At this point I reply “I’m sorry, I don’t do girls who don’t do phone numbers.”

37. If you have travelled, which places and countries did you like best? And, of

course, why? Did you find a place where you would like to live?I went to the United States, to Los Angeles in California. Which

was magnificenté, as I went on an architectural field trip and loved every static second. My favorite place, however, was

Brazil, right in Sao Paolo. I lived there for a year doing a foreign exchange, and if my Portuguese magically reverted back to its

fluency, I would totally live there.

38. Which records have the ability to make you cry and why? I got PTSD from this summer-long work incident two years

ago. It was awful, I lost so much from it in a psychological and physiological sense but kept my integrity and optimism.

Kaskade’s album The Grand helped me through the worst of it, and Niel Young’s album Harvest was good to help me through

bad relationships, wrought with compounded emotional exploitations.

39. And while we’re on the subject of sobbing, when was the last time you cried anyways?

Man I think I’ve completely repressed the ability to cry. I wept when I heard about Japan, but other than that I’ve got nothing.

The last time I cried, I was in the middle of a very stressful time during school, and felt abandoned by people who I once thought were friends, but were just upset by the idea that I no

longer wanted to associate myself with high school mentalities.

40. And what’s the one thing you would never put on Twitter?I would never tell my life story on Twitter. Hard time narratives

collect the utilitarians.

41. What would be your ultimate way to spend a day without music? On an island with fresh tropical fruit trees nearby and like one girl, beautiful inside and out, no drama. Can’t tell you who she

would be because she might be reading this now. No music, just the waves, sounds of rustling trees and explosive expressions of

amor e felicidade.

42. What was your most significant experience of the last 12 months? I recently applied to Harvard, MIT, U of T, and University of

Calgary. It took nine days but I built an expansive portfolio. This to me, is nothing compared to expressing my first love to a

thoroughly unattainable yet emotionally tesselating woman.

43. Please tell us five interesting facts about yourself:I never break my ethical standards

I broke each arm twice, and once ripped my lip under my chin and for a week there was this magnetized plate where I could

place a dime on my chin and it would stay.I’m half Turkish, half-Irish.

I’m really good at obscure talents, freestyle rapping, techtonique dancing, yo-yoing and freestyle skateboarding

I went to Brazil in 2003 for a foreign exchange. I learned Portuguese fluently in seven months.

44. This is a Rorschach inkblot test - what do you see in this form My crazy hair that’s going to be cut off in the next two weeks

[03.12.2011], to raise money for cancer research, donated to children fighting cancer, in memory of Eleanor Wright, a beloved family

friend.

45. What are the first things that come to your mind when you think of Tokyo?I think of sadness of relatives of Tokyo residents, of the loss in

neighbouring parts, of busy streets and discordant syncopation of footsteps and car noises.

46. Would you rather have ramen with Haruki Murakami at 5 a.m., go to an onsen with Beat Takeshi or do some 7” shopping with Yoko Ono? What would be your three conversational topics?

I would definitely have Ramen with Haruki Murakami. First of all, Ramen noodles = all kinds of goodness and second of all,

Haruki Murakami. I would talk about his Marathon and Triathlete background, ask him about his latest writing ideas, and how he

feels if there was any lost translation in his books.

47. If you were an anime or manga character, which one would you be, and why?I would be Pikachu, from that show Pokémon, cause that yellow

mouse is keee-ute. I am loud, expressive, playfully immature and I shock people.

48. You’re in Tokyo, and Godzilla & friends are hard on your heels. Which secret super power do you use to save the city?

I charge up a storm using meditative connectivities with natural entities and direct Godzilla to the ocean with tornados, then call

lightning to strike the bastard.

49. What song do you always wish they would put on the karaoke books? Please let us know why you chose it.

Andre Nickatina- Baking Soda in Minnesota [Fillmoe Coleman]The beat is hilarious; it’s this freaky horror-movie violin with some screaming

goof in time with a heavy beat. Somehow Nickatina can rhyme over it and make it sound awesome. “52 Karat blue diamond rhymin’ interior designin’

grindin’/ ricochet/camera, lights, man to mic, hold ya money while ya rollin the dice baby, uh...” I know all of the words and never get the chance to rhyme

them in public. Great question, thanks.

50. Please name your top three music related online destinations.Mp3va.com

Hybridized.orgMyspace.com

51. Please also name your top three non-music online destinations

Facebook.comWordpress.com (free blog spaces)

YouTube.com

52. How did you find out about the Academy IN THE FIRST PLACE? Please select ONE option only.

Friend (Kurtis Nishiyama)

53. Make up your own question and answer it.

If you only had one chance to make it to the Red Bull Music Academy, and they read through your entire application until

this point, what would be the ultimate question you would make up?

What was the most moving song you have heard in your entire life? (For the answer, you will have to respond to me with good

news)