I am currently a PhD student with the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. My research interests are in large (music) collection navigation, (music) recommenders, playlist construction and social music in general. I am an administrator of the MyPySpace open source project to create translation layers and interesting navigation tools to social networks in general and myspace in particular. I also DJ, mostly Drum and Bass, a bit of breaks and other things. The DJing is primarily in two places: The DJ Skool and Wired Radio Goldsmiths' Student run radio station. I'm also the station's Audio Engineer.

Various virtual instances/means to contact:

• email: b(dot)fields(at)gold(dot)ac(dot)uk or gearmonkey(at)gmail(dot)com
• twitter: @alsothings
• skype: gearmonkey
• SoundCloud
• last.fm
• facebook
• Myspace[rather neglected], Myspace[as Gearmonkey]

Banner photo was taken by Carissa Lynch.