Kourosh Dini, MD is a psychiatrist and a musician.
He has published a book describing the benefits and potential detriments of video games and virtual spaces called Video Game Play and Addiction: A Guide for Parents. Kourosh also maintains a blog titled Mind, Music, and Technology reflecting his thoughts of this unique intersection as he continues a path of discovering mind and artistry through these media.
His medical degree and residency in adult psychiatry were obtained through the University of Illinois at Chicago. He pursued further studies in child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Presently, he continues to work and learn at the Institute for Psychoanalysis, and maintains a private practice involving therapy, meditation, and medication management.
The pursuit of understanding the mind in sounds, symbols, and words is also reflected in his musicianship. Working in the medium of piano and synthesizer, Kourosh creates sounds variously described as relaxing and soothing, while gripping and hypnotic. Performed in an intense state of concentration, the music invites the listener into a meditation reflecting upon the mind’s natural ebbs and flows.
His studies began at five years of age and progressed by way of individual tutoring in the classical composers. Influences during this early period of musical development included Chopin, Bach, Beethoven, and Rachmaninoff. In adolescence, he would also listen to and improvise around the music of the Beatles, Metallica, and Mike Patton. Later influences included Phish, Tool, Simon Posford, Bill Laswell, Pete Namlook, James Bernard, among others.
He has done score for short films, both recorded and live and has collaborated on work presented at the 4Arts Gallery, Landmark Art Gallery, the Fast Forward Film Festival and Chicago Indymedia. Music video/machinima collaborations with SL’s Sitearm Madonna include the tracks “Beast” and “Impart.”
Albums written and produced include:
- * Legends
- * Turn of the Year EP (2008)
- * Live at Red Rock (2007)
- * Sky Lily (2007)
- * Live at Bliss Garden (2007)
- * Ontogeny (2005)
- * Fidelio (2003)
- * The Color of Tea in Sunlight (1999) (no longer available)
- * The Beckoning of Agora (1998) (no longer available).
He performs music weekly and periodically speaks on meditation as Kourosh Eusebio in the virtual world of Second Life.
