User:Helohe

“Out Out!! You demons of stupidity!!”¹

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Interests

I'm interessted in Music (Piano and Composition) and Mathematics.

Music

My Favourite Composers:

• Bach
• Frederic Rzewski
• Sorabji
• Busoni
• Liszt
• Rodion Shchedrin
• Shostakovich
• Rachmaninoff
• Arvo Pärt
• Samuel Barber
• Cecil Taylor
• Leopold Godowsky (User:Helohe/Godowsky)

Generaly im interested in Fugues and Fugue like compositions. But also fantasias and other improvisational music.

Favourite Works:

• Bach - Brandenburgische Konzerte (cond. Rudolf Baumgartner)
• Bach - Art of Fugue (Glenn Gould, Tatiana Nikolayeva, Alexander and Daykin)
• Bach - Piano Concertos (Glenn Gould)
• Busoni - Fantasia Contrappuntistica
• Rzewski - El pueblo unido jamas serà vencido
• Rzewski - Fantasia (With improvisation)
• Rzewski - 1th Improvisation on his Cornelius Cardew recording
• Sorabji - Opus Clavicembalisticum
• Cecil Taylor - Air Above Mountains
• Godowsky - Passacaglia (,Cadenza and Fugue)

UbuWeb is a great ressource for contemporary music, make sure to check it out.

Mathematic

My main interests are in: Topos Theory (Category Theory), Prime Numbers, Patterns, Fractals, L Systems. Computation (Computational complexity theory).

User:Helohe/Mathematics

Arts

I'm interessted in the arts of René Magritte, M. C. Escher, Franz Marc, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Jean Tinguely.

Photography

Please have a look here: http://helohe.deviantart.com/ and here http://flickr.com/photos/helohe/

Software Development

My main programming language is Java because I used this at work. I started programming in Visual Basic as a hobby but then changed to C++. I like Prolog, Mercury and Lisp but have not decided yet which one to learn. There are other possibilities as well: Haskell, Caml, D, ASM, ...

Literature

I like to read books and here is a list of those I recommend:

• John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
• George Orwell - Homage to Catalonia, 1984
• Charles Bukowski - Der Mann mit der Ledertasche
• Albert Camus - Der Fremde
• Max Frisch - Graf Öderland
• Thomas Bernhard - Die Ursache. Eine Andeutung. / Der Keller. Eine Entziehung. / Der Atem. Eine Entscheidung.
• Voltaire - Candide
• Franz Kafka - Der Prozess, Das Schloss, Die Verwandlung, Amerika
• Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson - The Illuminatus! Trilogy
• Greg Hill (Malaclypse The Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst) - Principia Discordia
• Henry Miller - Sexus
• Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha, Der Steppenwolf
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust
• Marquis de Sade - Justine und Juliette (3ed) (Matthes & Seitz, Erste und einzige tatsächlich ungekürzte Ausgabe, in 10 Bänden)

Science related and other:

• Donald Knuth - The Art of Computer Programming
• Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe - Bausteine des Chaos - Fraktale
• Heinz-Otto Peitgen, Hartmut Jürgens, Dietmar Saupe - Chaos - Bausteine der Ordnung.
• Saunders Mac Lane - Categories for the Working Mathematician
• Guerino Mazzola - Comprehensive Mathematics for Computer Scientists
• Guerino Mazzola - Topos of Music
• Mikhail Bakunin - Gott und der Staat, Staatlichkeit und Anarchie
• Teubner-Taschenbuch der Mathematik (Way better than the DTV-Atlas Mathematik)
• Arnold Schönberg - Harmonielehre
• Diether de la Motte - Harmonielehre / Kontrapunkt

Eat and Drink

Eat

I like all kind of vegetarian food. For example greek food:

• Imam Baildi
• Stuffed Tomatoes
• Saganaki

Drink

Beer

Beer I like:

• Boddingtons - Pub Ale
• Guinness

Grappa

• Grappa Sassicaia Tenuta San Guido (Jacopo Poli)

Wine

• Wine Kurni 2001 (montepulciano) Oasi degli Angeli

Whisky

• Lagavulin 16 and Distillers Edition
• Laphroaig 15
• Ardbeg Lord of the Isles
• Caol Ila 18
• Cragganmore 12 and Distillers Edition
• Port Ellen ?

Notes

• User:Helohe/Categories

Subpages

• Some Xbox hacking

Links

• My main Website (not regularly updated)
• AbSearch Sourceforge Project
• LSystemIDE Sourceforge Project
• FauMail Sourceforge Project

(Please note that the Visual Basic Projects are not longer updated).

Footnotes

• ^Note 1 : Reference: Dogbert
• ^Note 2 : The Geek Syndrome

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