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Jan Zimmermann

I was born in Berlin Germany in January 1997, after some years at a German school I switched to an English-speaking school and never looked back. Since a very early age it had been my dream to go to the United States for University and become a programmer. After being introduced to coding through various experimentation with Minecraft I thought myself Java when I was 15. In high school I picked Music as a concentration and made great friends in the class of 5 people. We decided to build a basement studio out of all the combined equipment we could find, my job was to build it. For the first time I enjoyed making music after having dreaded going to Piano lessons for years. In retrospect, I am very glad that my parents encouraged me to keep going with them. Just before finishing the International Baccalaureate I happened to go on a campus tour of Northeastern University when visiting Boston as a Tourist. I decided to give it a shot and applied for undergraduate. When I found the combined major or Computer Science and Music I couldn’t believe my eyes and thought that it would be perfect for me. The five years I spent at Northeastern were certainly my most transformative, but I also realized that I would want to be coding for the rest of my life. I have great respect for all people that pursue music as a career, it is not for me.

How can we leverage networks and distributed systems to reimagine real time audio applications?

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Fall 2019


I created Content for my Fall 2019 Composition for Electronic Instruments course. I recorded two very odd interviews with my friends Matt and Hayley and asked them questions on the spot that most people would not have an immediate answer to. The message I tried to convey was the extent to which the editing and selection of short clips would distort the meaning that they were trying to convey.

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