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The lessons were also actually

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used by the Soviet military to

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tune communications equipment.

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So it\'s actually one of the only

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Soviets and the only synthesizers

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ever to actually have a military

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application.

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The the way that this is all written

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is just too much fun,

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because if you know Russia,

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none of us is in Russia.

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But I\'ve been interested in

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Russia.

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Stopper agents, I mean, some of the

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first music that I actually did,

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I did by taking shortwave

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shortwave radio broadcasts from

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Russia and then splicing

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it up and tapes

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and.

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This has been labeled as the

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largest collection of Soviet

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synthesizers in the United States.

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We started doing jam sessions in

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Puerto Rico because of the acoustics

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in the way that it sounds.

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It is just amazing.

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I\'m the curator operations manager

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there, so it\'s my

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job basically to oversee

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animal husbandry

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and the animal operations there.

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So you pick the fish?

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Yes.

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It seems like fish and since of your

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two biggest creatures?

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Pretty much.

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Yeah. And I tie them together

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whenever I can.

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When you work with an animal for so

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long, you almost

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just kind of develop a connection

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with them. I mean, it\'s almost kind

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of like a little I don\'t

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want to say a psychic connection,

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but it is sort of, you know,

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I can tell what\'s going on with

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that. I don\'t know if they know

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what\'s going on

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with me, but I

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can tell what\'s going on.

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Then how do you

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truly educate somebody on

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that?

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And there is a very big difference

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between a television show and

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the real life.

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And so these animals act as

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almost like an

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ambassador or an emissary

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to the wild.

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One question that.

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About the music.

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Whether you think there

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is some sort

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of deeper connection between your

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love.

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Your fascination with fish,

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with my fascination for nature and

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period and then yes,

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definitely.

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You know, I mean, my music is, you

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know, necessarily what you would

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refer to as an acoustic

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style whatsoever.

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It\'s hard analog.

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Electronics.

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But that it\'s

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that.

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I don\'t know how to how to explain,

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and it\'s very difficult, but

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there is there is definitely a

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direct connection

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between, you know, what

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I see

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in these animals swimming

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and what I see around

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me in.

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To the music that idea.

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Yeah, but it is

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a valid one,

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but it\'s difficult and explain

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it, I mean, it\'s up here.

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Explaining.

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I think you can

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communicate with French and I

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think of fish communicate with you.

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It added to the difficulty

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of that is that

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what they may be

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communicating to you is what you

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will never see.

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You won\'t notice any.

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And because they\'re

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they\'re not a person.

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We perceive things totally different

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from the.

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For instance, those electric eels

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they do, they barely can see

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they don\'t even really see their

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surroundings, but yet in that brain

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of theirs, they\'re taking all of

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these electrical signals that

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they\'re putting out.

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And they\'re building a complex

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map of their environment in their

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hands.

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So they\'re seeing something that it

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would be impossible for us to ever

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understand or even to come close

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to everything.

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I mean, it\'s it\'s like an alien

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civilization coming here and

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trying to communicate with us, maybe

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with you. You might not even know

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that they were communicating.