CHARACTER PROFILE: JEREMY OWEN TURNER

Birthplace: Victoria, B.C. Canada

Birthdate: April 03, 1974

Base of Operations: Vancouver

Height: 6’0”

Weight: 150 lbs

Eyes: Blue

Hair: Brown

Assets: Reliable, flexible, friendly, calm, diplomatic, patient, considerate, optimistic, eager, and eccentric

Faults: Physically weak, meek, flaky, gullible, smart-ass, wise-ass, gutless, aloof, eccentric, arrogant, tight with money {cheap}, self-absorbed and pretentious

Specs: Jeremy Turner’s genetic heritage is descended not from the great British Romantic painter J.M.W. Turner nor the American Media Mogul, Ted Turner but from a bunch of working-class tightwads in Nottingham, England. Between the ages of 5 and 10, the young Jeremy was enchanted by such classic musical projects as Kraftwerk, DAF, Richard Wagner, Antonio Vivaldi, AC/DC, NoMeansNo, The Beach Boys, Wendy Carlos, Claude Debussy, Cheap Trick, Thomas Dolby and the Human League. In the early ‘80s, he composed “modern” symphonies in his head as he walked to and from school. This fleeting form of amusement occupied his precious time right up until the end of that infamous decade where grunge and death metal reigned supreme. Once his sheltered bubble burst, Jeremy studied Art History, Religious Studies and Music Composition at the University of Victoria with Christopher Butterfield, John Celona and John Cole. As a result of his University days, Turner went on an aesthetic quest to find a new musical form that would somehow encapsulate or at least make analogies to the recent developments apparent in other media such as sculpture. After laying claim to the discovery of music as an autonomous object, Turner set out to recruit new students of his new musical theories… Few of which have been tested. In the meantime, Jeremy has co-founded the Notable School of Music Composition with Lynn Starheim as well as the 536 Arts Collective with his current roommates.