Sound4Sina Productions – The Electronic Music Blog

What if we all could gather and contribute a small donation to third world countries. A small donation for the deprived, a bit of sharing for the sake of our self-consciousness and a boost of buoyancy to our self-centeredness. Or shall I say; what if we could gather the geekiest Web 2.0 community and make a united contribution to our planetary fellows?

Commiserated, and still privileged. That’s what lies in my hideous mind. Still, I wake up every morning and contribute to people in need. Okay, I am almost touching the final deceptive punch now, so hang in there. The fact that I have a daily routine for processing a heck load of patient blood samples, through a magical (and very secret) process from a paper-like membrane with DNA (which initially was delivered as a whole blood sample by UPS or FedEX), to the final stage where I decide whether a patient has the right genetic formula for an organ transplantation. Surrounded by efficient technology and two pioneers, we do magic and we liberate many many many people from their daily grief. Daily. Seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Not revealing too much, but we are a world class company with a prime position, and with tiny insignificant competitors around the world that simply doesn’t have the knowledge or the technology to accomplish the great task of high resolution HLA typing, fast paced and streamlined processing with minimal hassle (I repeat: minimal hassle).

So getting to my point by this nice rhetorical segway: On February 12^th I will join the Charity: Water gathering here in New York City, along with the tweeting community around the world, we will donate $20 each (or $100 for the highly generous Le Sacré-Cœur’s) to help the 1.1 billion people that (quoting from Charity: Water’s website) “don’t have access to safe, clean drinking water”.

Yes people, it is time to step forward and lend a share to our mates, just for the sake of our karma and whatever you may believe is considered as a good cause for the humanity. I am going just to satisfy my social-addictive musical needs, and not to mention – for the free drinks that will be served! Followed by a LMAO

I’ll see you there, 7:30 PM on Thursday February 12th  – sharp!

Charity: Water
http://www.charitywater.org

NYC Twestival 2009
http://newyork.twestival.com/

Met these guys on Madison Ave. They are the Freaky Ta crew, they just released their first mixtape so I got two promo CD’s and a flyer plus some nice flickr worthy photographs. Oh, and I also donated $11. Kind of cheezy, but hey… musicians need support!

This is however non-electronic music; Hip-Hop.

And I love that Tony Montana jacket. “I always tell the truth, even when I lie”

“Analogue Dollars for Digital Cents”

Me trying to explain about the ratio between internet and IRL; what internet business is worth compared to real life business. However, internet has greater ways of recognition for a wider audience…yeah yeah whatever. Cool quote, right? Thanks to Kevin Rose for that one! I just love quoting, but there times when the quote and the audience has a perfect timing, so it just gets a slam dunk’da funk.

“I had an affair with Hillary Clinton, now see where I am at”

Me trying to utilize the possible ways of becoming homeless by printing a catchy text screensaver for my office computer. Now, people interpret this quote as me being very unhappy with my position at the company. Lovely and catchy. Perfect for the upcoming vote-or-die campaigns. Where’s Daddy Puffy Puff Puff at?

“This sample is homo, should I control with the CE sample too?”

Now, it’s not always easy to know how to handle homo samples on the computer. I’ll try to explain…
I analyze DNA in a program, right? So this time I was analyzing a C-Genetic donor sample and found out that both Exons 2 and 3 had the same mutations, which we sumarize as homo mutation. I asked “Niclas” (which actually got this name as a counter reaction from my part when he called me “Mr Kipong” which seems to be a Korean movie character and (in real life) a handsome guy), and I hear a big Laugh Out Loud from “Harry” (getting his nickname from Harry Potter, which I have never seen (the movie that is) but the looks are identical – - off the record). Not homosexual DNA samples, but homo mutations. Learn!

“It’s bpe outside…bpe bpe”

Getting halfway down to punch out for the day around 7-8 pm I see “Ms Hooti” (the word hottie with that Southeast Asian swing in it) which actually is meant to honor her elegant looks and hyped-up glasses. I try to keep the good spirit up along the walk we’re having down to the out-puncher machine (or whatever you’d call that hi-tech hand scanner). Trying to remember the word for rain, which I knew has a bp sound (like a B-popping sound with bulging lips), I managed to say bpe which means blood. The correct word for rain is Bpi, almost like the mathematical constant π, pi.

Synopsis of the day you’d ask for, huh?

My faux pas of the day was when (1) giving a ring to my beloved co-worker (which is becoming an electronic lova’ fo’ sho’, heh) for her patience with my all-day-round mockery, (2) eating Kimchi with chopsticks and slurping a lil’ bit to blend in when they’re eating (slurping) soup, and (3) greeting Anyeo Haa-Seyo to the senior employees in the morning and Anyeo to the “kids” (my nearby associates).
Still I am carrying around a little bit anxiety when it comes to “Ms W” which seems to completely forgotten our good moments of leisure.

Regards,

Your man in the tall standing nation
Sina a.k.a John Cena

I am just about to realize all the varieties of life which can be seen with today’s technology. It is indisputably so spectacular and magical. (Especially when it comes to microscopic life, which is a diverse field of science in which humans still are learning from).

It is always a privilege to be a part of humanitarian work, and it gets even more exciting when every day is about saving peoples lives. Nevertheless, I find myself searching for mutations in the human genome every day. Human leukocyte antigen system is my “field of interest” – the so called vast science of major histocompatibility complex in humans.

HLA have other roles. They are sometimes involved in mate selection. They may protect against or allow cancer. They may mediate autoimmune disease (examples: juvenile diabetes, coeliac disease).

Aside from the genes encoding the 6 major antigens, there are a large number of other genes, many involved in immune function located on the HLA complex. Diversity of HLA in human population is one aspect of disease defense, and, as a result, the chance of two unrelated individuals having identical HLA molecules on all loci is very low. Historically, HLA genes were identified as a result of the ability to successfully transplant organs between HLA similar individuals.

So what makes this job hard? Well, let’s face it. The transcription (or let us call it “data”) is extremely fuzzy. Now check this out:

HLA are extremely variable loci

MHC loci are some of the most genetically variable coding loci in mammals, and the human HLA loci are no exceptions. Despite the fact that the human population went through a constriction more than 150 000 years ago that was capable of fixing many loci, the HLA loci appear to have survived such a constriction with a great deal of variation.

Now that’s the problem. There are so many variations. This is not about remembering those mathematical and physical equations from school.

In 1968, it was discovered that matching these antigens between kidney donor and recipient improved the likelihood of kidney survival in the recipient.

I can literally stroll around for hours and just soak in the atmosphere in my surrounding.  That is probably the best feeling in the world; to have time for thinking, reflecting and seizing my visions, accepting today’s challenges and tomorrows changes, thus new people will step in to life and new ties will be made, new thoughts will be born and disputes may blemish personality.

Many thoughts were buzzing in my head as I – step by step (literally speaking) – walked from Grand Central Station down the Park Avenue Street on W 41^st heading westbound and soon to Empire State Building. While standing in front of a crowded entrance, I tried to locate nearest Starbucks, which gladly (and not surprisingly) were just across the street on the same side of Empire State Building. Standing in the queue made me think of the ignorance I always had when passing Espresso House back home in Sweden. Sulky youngsters and non-affordable coffee lattemacchinatochino’s are now replaced by skilled youngster Baristas with lots of energy and smiling faces, portraying the magnificence and prominence of the Big Apple in one single shot of espresso in a tall cup of ice, topped with caramel sauce and a little (but not much) blessed air of Colombian $16 (or something)/lb coffee, which probably is their coffee of choice when crushing those beans (which I only could hear, but not see) in the coffee bean crushing machine. However, the coffee and I went out from the cooled air at Starbucks to a crowded Fifth Avenue and 32^nd street.

Strolling southbound to the Flatiron Building, where people as always where standing and trying to fit in the odd shaped building while pushing the camera buttons. A guy tried to jump up the orange road cone but failed and got my attention when he said something in Italian. I then continued on Broadway down to Union Square, where Farmer’s market was crowded with the people from the Greenwich Village people and their half mile long street market. My iced caramel coffee had been slurped long time ago, and the heat transformed me into a radar, scanning for a diner. The diner was soon found on Greenwich Avenue. Some Bulls Bar or something like that, serving those big fat burgers with a pound of Burger King-tasting fries. After a burger and some fries plus a Corona and twenty-something well-spent dollars, I walked out and left the male waiter a chunk of my fries and at least 20% for tips. I also repeated the text which was printed on the back of his T-shirt for myself: “If you are what you eat, then I am fast, cheap and easy”.

This was the first half of my day in Manhattan. Now you’re probably wondering what happened next?
Well, let’s just sum it up by formulating something nice…

Arbitrariness is apparent, but good luck and continuous prosperity is too much to ask. That is my resolution from my day long journey through a hot, humid and crowded Manhattan.

…or should I say “with great work comes great responsibility”? If that makes sense… don’t know

I am sorry for my absence the past week or so. I have been working on new projects (not musically related) at the bio-tech firm I work at in New York. There’s no much time for the monthly EP mixes, so I’ll pass this month and depend the coming mixes on my work schedule for the coming months.
It’s not that I have neglected to work on new music projects, but as the title says; I simply have too much responsibility to take care of. (You know, I am actually saving lives out here).

In any case, I have no idea on the new progressive & electro house releases but I will try to not overlook my part of this blog. Love ya’ll out there

And there’s picture of me and my co-worker from the DNA pre-PCR lab…