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So I got some extra money today, because I'm a good employee. I'm about to head out (on a VERY rainy and lazy Taipei morning) for some more dress slacks for work, and some cute short shorts for when I go hiking this weekend. The rest will go towards parts for a synthesizer I'm building to sell and put in my growing "For Dr. Suporn" fund.

Just thought I'd toss that out here. It's not too profound... just a day in the life, on China time.

--Jeannine

PS: Oh, another detail. Because I was thinking of switching employers anyways, I wanted to test the cultural waters and I had a long talk a month or so ago with my boss about being transgendered. She thinks I'm a very good teacher so she wasn't really bothered by it... she said, "oh that explains why you dress so well" (she always compliments my clothes--but had she not noticed that the outfits she compliments are usually women's clothes!?). Now she calls me into her office to sit around and chat a lot more, and asks me what I think about curriculum and students a lot more too. So she seems pretty accepting. She even made a joke. The other day I had a kidney stone and I passed it and it hurt. She said, "but that is nothing compared to your surgery soon in Thailand, right?" I thought it was quite funny :o).

Okay I have about two hours to eat and shop in the rain... gotta go!

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Guest Jeannine Bean
Sounds like you got a great boss there Jeannine.

And shopping, take me with you! hihi

Lisa

If you're ever in the Taipei Area, I'll take you out to Ximen one Saturday, we can cruise the shops and see a movie... then I'll show you the fun other places to shop, the night market at "snake alley" where you can drink snake venom mixed with wine, and a really beautiful temple.. all right next to where we go shopping :-). I have to warn you, the stuff these Taiwanese women wear is made for little girls. In the U.S. I'm a size M, and here I'm an XL, in HongKong I'm an XXL...

Also, I try on pants made for Chinese girls and they fit me in the hips but are too big for my waist...

No shoes bigger than size 9 or 9.5, so many American girls are SOL...

So.. there's always bags, skirts, some of the big flowy tops, jewlery, belts... sparkely stuff, they have some fun watches and such.. Tons of sparkles and shiney shiney... and OMG the glasses here are SO RAD, and cheap to boot. You can get some fun and super funky prescription glasses in Ximen for maybe 60 US Dollars, lenses and all!

--Jeannine

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Sounds like things are going rather well.

You have mentioned building synthesizers before - could you tell me more about that?

Love ya,

Sally

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Guest Jeannine Bean
You have mentioned building synthesizers before - could you tell me more about that?

I fell in love with synthesizer music when going to raves at 15, 16 and 17. Then I found the album switched on Bach by Wendy Carlos, and got into 60s and 70s electronic music, back when people would write complex musical treatises on proper use of the synthesizer in composition. Later, my close friend got me into Tangerine Dream and Vangelis. By then I was listening to anything with a synth in it. Then I was on to 1980s stuff, laden with synths... I've had decade and a half long love affair with those electronic sound-a-magiggers.

Somewhere in there I noticed that really good synths, like Ms. Carlos's http://www.music.psu.edu/Faculty%20Pages/B...images/wndy.gif (and that's an old Moog, which would cost an astronomical amount of money, probably 50-75 Grand for a medium system).

or like Delia Derbeshire's (She played with BBS radiophonics for many years, and I think she was a primary musician in one of the renditions of the Dr. Who theme, :-p) http://www.thesmith.org.uk/music/mentors/suzbuchla.jpg (her system there would probably run you a hundred thousand USD)

Or This one here with Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel (Kate Bush plays a lot of synths, and I cannot find a pic of just her and a synth): http://www.eclipse.net/~synergy/petergabri...ushpgtwnhse.jpg

At some point I decided if I wanted one, a big one like they made Dr. Who soundtracks with, I'd have to build it myself. So I started to do just that.

Wow, fast forward a few years into the future, many thousands of dollars and tears and hours spent toying with electronics that seemed to fail more often than they worked, and I could build pretty cool synths.

They're worth money. I built a home brewed clone of the synthesizer called a "TB-303" (listen to Madonna's "Hey Mr. DJ" or the background electronic bass lines in some Flight of the Concords songs to here the signature sounds) and sold it for about a thousand bucks to buy my ticket to Taiwan. The parts are hard to come by but I spent maybe 15 hours building that, plus some rare parts here and there that I salvaged from old broken synths I have laying around.

I've built and sold some other stuff too. I even had a patent applied for but I decided it's too expensive to continue pursuing the process. Right now I'm looking at reengineering some classic old synths to use surface mount technology, or maybe just paying local teenagers to work in my house while I teach them English and they assemble pieces for me... and I have made contacts to do runs of boards on mainland China. I'll probably go the slow route with my panels and millwork and invest my capital into a pleasant physical interface, with high quality parts.

I have the goal to make some REALLY CLASSIC beautiful instruments that people can enjoy for a lifetime that I can sell for prices poor college students can afford.

I was one of those poor college students. I could scrimp and save and drop a grand, but not ten grand. I don't think that should keep someone from playing her favorite instrument. I usually end up selling the things I build myself, LOL. But here in Taiwan I'd like something to play, and I am now building four at a time (for the first time ever) and will be able to sell some and keep one or two, maybe to rock a Taipei Dance floor with...

--Jeannine

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