I am a board certified Psychiatrist also board certified in the Neurological subspecialty of Electroencephalography (EEG), or "Brain Waves." The music you heard at the Splash Page and in the Dr Tomorrow section is from a MIDI file composed and partially produced by me in a recording studio I have built in Miami. My undergraduate degree in History & Science was earned at Harvard College, and I have worked in Moscow while I was a medical student at the University of Missouri and later as a US-USSR Exchange Scientist for NIMH in 1978. I was the Editor of the Journal of Holistic Medicine (Human Sciences Press) for a year and have been an avid member of the American Medical Jogger's Association and the Dead Runners Society. NeXT Computer, Inc. gave me the opportunity to study NEXTSTEP and become a NeXT Registered Developer at their Redwood City Developer Camp in 1990. The insanely great machine, Steve Jobs, and a fine operating system have done much more for me than all the products of Microsoft combined.
Sincere thanks to Miami's premier holographer, Mark Diamond (mark@diamondimages.com), for the "SpaceDogs graphic, which was a Photoshop rendition of Tony Ferrante's original graphic of the two dogs. Tony is also the senior author of the rendition in the Sound and Light graphic. Special thanks to Greg Minnick, of Minnovations (muzin@aol.com) for producing the MIDI file of my original composition and adding those neat lead solo licks at the end of the tune, which will loop easily. That is the Standard MIDI file of "Shaka-Buku," (A.K.A. "Part God") which is a Japanese expression meaning "go out and convert!" or "go out and proselytize!" Proselytize means: (as from our Digital Webster):
pros·e·ly·tize \'praÈs-(e-)le-,tõÅz\ vb -tized; -tiz·ing vi (1679) 1: to induce someone to convert to one's faith 2: to recruit someone to join one's party, institution, or cause ~ vt :to recruit or convert esp. to a new faith, institution, or cause Ð pros·e·ly·ti·za·tion \,praÈs-(e-)let-e-'zaÅ-shen, ,praÈs-e-,lõÅt-\ n Ð pros·e·ly·tiz·er \'praÈs-(e-)le-,tõÅ-zer\ n
Shaka-Buku is a free sample [a virtual cut, as it were] of the upcoming "Bullet" CD, which will be a homebrew CD of DR TOMORROW music. Including the Shaka-Buku tune with likely some digital enhancements. Some tech-heads in Finland have already made me promise to describe how the MIDI file was produced. MIDI is an acronym meaning "Musical Instrument Digital Interface." This particular MIDI file is also part of a meditative CD incorporating some looping samples of Tibetan monks chanting three notes simultaneously and other sounds designed to optimize the neural patterning that can occur during meditation, deep relaxation, and prayer.
I am also grateful to Tim Bergstressser for the use of his animated mailbox and to Tony Ferrante, Mark Diamond, BRC, and H.B. for excellent photographic and Photoshop work. Mark Diamond colorized the originally monochrome LERI logo. I am indebted to Alex Ashkar, Rob Wilson, and Shana Priwer for their software consultation time.
Graphic of Bob Marley is by Ghee Illustrations, P.O. Box 55195, Atlanta, GA 30308-5195, (Phone) 404-688-2171.
