Dissertation
I defended myself in a new shirt April 14 2005, over one year ago. The open nature of science has been known to excuse itself from the room under certain circumstances, and as such I was not allowed to distribute my dissertation, Learning the meaning of music, for one full year after that public disclosure.
I apologize to everyone that wanted to read this earlier, and I also apologize to everyone reading it now. I don’t think you understand how many Media Lab coffee machine “espressos” I had the week before I had to submit the .tex file to the library. I was working on this thing in the music studio, the quietest room in the place, but I had put “Irrevocably Overdriven Break Freakout Megamix” on the SP/DIF CD-player routed into the O2R. I wish I could find the source file, as it was full of Vawter-style
% senorita, where have you been all my life?
comments. At least it’s short.
To read it, head over to the ‘writings’ page. The best bit is the “DISCLAIMER OF QUALITY” at the last page. They’ve got my number.
If you want to play along with the more rock and roll dissertation defense, check out this 7 megabyte Keynote render and add your own flippant commentary. At the Media Lab, the defenses were the laser shows at the planetarium– the dissertations were the 1p.m. Constellation Watch Middle School Exhibit.
Love always & etc,
Dr. Brian