Vintage computers, an EP on Turbo Recordings, a Roland TR-808 and TB-303 in fondant, most of my twenties in Europe, rock hounding. The usual list.
My dad worked at DuPont/Berg Electronics, the home of Berg connectors. My uncle Tom was a senior systems analyst at the FDA who built R/C planes for the Civil Air Patrol. Our house had PCBs and capacitors where other houses had LEGOs, and we got a computer before most of the kids I knew. At eleven I found BBSes, then a dialup Unix shell, then IRC.
I did a summer exchange to Nässjö, Sweden. I raised the money myself, writing letters and selling candy to my sugar-addicted classmates, because the demoscene had already pulled me toward Europe.
I went back the next year as a full-year exchange student at Nordfyns Gymnasium in Odense, Denmark, and attended The Party, which was then the largest demo party in the world.
In 2006 I moved to London on a Highly Skilled Worker visa, on the strength of my condo-hotel work in Miami. I lived in London but commuted to the University of Kent in Canterbury every day. Two hours each way, before the high-speed Kent rail existed.
Around 2009 I moved to Aberdeen and stayed about three years. In early 2012 I went back to the US for a few months, then flew back to Europe to compete at Revision in Germany in the C64 graphics competition. From there I went to Finland to visit demoscene friends, met my husband Juha, and stayed until we moved to San Diego in 2013.
In 2015 my husband Juha and I started a project called Acid Bitchez. Juha wrote and produced the track Thinking About Acid. I wrote the lyrics and did the vocals.
It landed on Tiga's label, Turbo Recordings, via producer Jori Hulkkonen, who also contributed the A1 remix. The EP includes remixes from Joeski, Zia, and General Ludd. VICE premiered the Zia remix in early 2016.
The house is full of vintage computers (Commodore 64, VIC-20, Amiga) and analog synthesizers.
I go for the geology. The Pliocene record out there is largely undisturbed, and the BLM land around the state park lets you actually get into it. San Diego is home base.
