Kinan Dak Albab
Assistant Professor
SPACE Lab
Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University
Office: CDS 1336
Email: babman [at] bu [dot] edu
Interests: Computer systems, privacy-conscious systems, security, applied cryptography.
Music I've Made
Recordings and other things I've put together.
"Basement" Recordings
The stereotypical one-man metal band in a basement near you.
I play all instruments and vocals other than the MIDI-programmed drums.
I recorded these songs on inherited or cheap equipment purchased on a graduate student stipend, so the recording quality is dubious.
I am barely a competent guitarist, much less at playing other instruments or at singing. Listen at your own risk.
One Art
An original, inspired by Elizabeth Bishop's poem of the same name.
Opeth - Face of Melinda
Alice in Chains - Nutshell
Portishead - Roads
Portishead - The Rip
More is yet to come (well, maybe after tenure ☠)
Psychiatric Delusions
Several lifetimes ago, I played guitar in Psychiatric Delusions, an underground Syrian death/doom metal band.
We formed in 2011 and put out our first single in 2012. We got our first full-length album, ...Dispirited, nearly finished later that year. However, the project fell apart, with many of our recordings lost, due to all the usual suspects: war, poverty, persecution, exile, and the human tendency to quit before things are finished.
These rough recordings are all that survived. All music was written by the prolific Tareq Al-Hassan and myself.
1. Infinity
Missing a guest vocal performance.
2. Nocturnal Psychogenocide
3. The Blackest Of Days
The lead single. A major hit among the depressed Damascus teenagers at the time.
4. Within These Freezing Waters
Missing a section in the beginning.
5.
No surviving recording.
6. Scribbles To Veronika
If you want to learn more about the once booming (pun intended) underground metal scene in Syria, check out this documentary.