- I am a senior artist for the American Museum of Natural History...meaning I build and work on the exhibits there. I've had lots of jobs to supplement my real life as a musician but I always sought work that could be applied somehow to my creative endeavors.
- I got my first real job in a furniture factory in 73 so that I could buy a mellotron and join a band called Odyssey. I made $73 a week! I then founded the band Cathedral and we made "Stained Glass Stories". I've worked as a damper installer at Steinway and Sons and as a production manager at Woodstock Percussion.
- I've been very interested in building percussion and wind instruments and still have a little workshop that I tinker on marimbas and metallophones and other experiments. I am working on a sound installation these days.
- I founded a "production co." - Phoshorescent Records last year. Right now it is only a trademark but I plan to use it to release my own material and to collaborate with new musicians I have been meeting in and around the N.Y.C area. I have been outfitting my space "Tower Mews" to do audio and video abeit by the seat of my pants.
- I've been married and seriously involved a few times now and I think I am finally getting pretty good at it and will eventually get it right. I have four kids and three grandkids. One of them (grandkids) is terrified of me which I find amusing but a little sad and altogether understandable.
- Most of all I love making my music and of that process I love sitting at the M400 and M1 the best...those instruments never fail to inspire me. The tron is the centerpeice of my work.
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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Job? Hobbies? Special Skills?
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Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Job? Hobbies? Special Skills?
I do digital forensics for a law enforcement arm of the government. It involves a fair amount of travel and I get to do some teaching too, usually to other law enforcement agencies or to University students taking courses in the same field.
At heart I think I would still describe myself as a mathematician who would rather be a musician but who doesother stuff to finance his life.
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Mike Dickson
Twice married, twice divorced, no kids. Now living with someone I met 26 years ago and have been with her for 16. One enormous flat in the Edinburgh city centre and one beautiful cottage on the Scottish east coast, three cats, two grown-up stepchildren and very little else I could ask for.
Mike Dickson
Cockenzie, East Lothian
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