• Lives in Greater Vancouver, BC
• Computer systems analyst (a nerd) for more than a few years
• Plus about 3+ years of university-level chemistry and math
• Has pushed a few electrons around too: understand resonance and impedance
• Dedicated student (whatever that means) of all the sciences
  (I read New Scientist for breakfast ... really)
• Have a mind that cross-integrates science facts
  
• That's me in the cartoon, to the right, with the paint brush
  
• Spent about an equivalent of a years study on psycho-acoustics, the science of hearing
  

My Goals, to become:

1. An excellent, accurate singer
2. A decent keyboard player 

I started out about 10 years ago at solid 0 on a scale of 1 to 10 (could not sing much of anything on pitch, due to growing up in a profoundly a-musical family).

Such musical ignorance has risks: I flirted with death many times: I could spot a single violinist in the university orchestra flub a note by half a semi-tone. (I'm not unique - most people can do this). If I was impolite enough to mention this, or even to twitch a disdainful finger, my girlfriend (later my wife) would hiss "you can't sing a single note on pitch - don't you talk" and threaten to strangle me. 

As they said of the talking dog; "'tis not that he speaks poorly, 'tis a wonder that he speaks at all". I read a book or three on how music is perceived and generated and figured out what goes on "behind the curtains" in music, and used it to help myself learn.

Aside: It's actually relatively simple, but just hard-ish to explain, but with the web I have facilities (pictures, sounds, animation) that can a writer could never have dreamed of, 20 years ago.

My interest in the jammer keyboard is because I'm too lazy to learn a hard, confusing instrument like the standard keyboard ... even though I have one in my living room. Said keyboard is my wife's, who is an superb pianist and singer. She's at the opposite end of the talent range, a solid ten.