WALID TOUMA

BIOGRAPHY

I am one element of time registered since 1965...

As an entrepreneur, my journeys have taken me on paths of building companies, improvising piano sonatas, and existential phenomenological writings, among many others. Such journeys have continued to date, and with them the deafening sounds of destiny...

As I ﬂoat through my ‘creative moments’ in time, their ‘hues’ and ‘spices’ resonate with my own existential paths, bringing both meaning and serenity to my life, and leading me at times, although faintly, closer to me, to Walid...

Walid R. Touma, PhD
Beirut, Lebanon

BOOKS

Eternal Journeys

Published by Olympia Publishers - 2021. London, UK

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My Flowers

Published by Saqi - 2014. London, UK

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The Dynamics of the Computer Industry: Modeling the Supply of Workstations and their Components

Hardcover: Published by Kluwer - 1993. New York, NY

Paperback: Published by Springer - 2012. New York, NY

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MUSIC ALBUMS

life

impromptus
opus 13	birth
opus 14	requiem
opus 15	awakening

Composed and Produced by Walid R. Touma
Transcribed and Orchestrated by Paul Khalifeh
Mixed and Mastered by Elie Kallab
Copyright 2018 Walid R. Touma

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my life

piano sonatas in C Major
opus 7	birth	the ﬁre
opus 8	requiem	the ﬁght
opus 9	requiem	the fall
opus 10	awakening	the rise
opus 11	awakening	the resurrection
opus 12	life	sweet moments

Composed and Produced by Walid R. Touma
Edited and Mastered at Tunefork Recording Studios
Copyright 2012 Walid R. Touma

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eternal silence

piano sonatas in C Major
opus 1	dance
opus 2	water
opus 3	madness
opus 4	tears
opus 5	smile
opus 6	look

Composed and Produced by Walid R. Touma
Edited and Mastered at Tunefork Recording Studios
Copyright 2012 Walid R. Touma

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eternal
silence

As an entrepreneur, playing the piano has been a joy of emotional journeys, all while transcending time, moments, and life’s existential pains.

The first time Touma played the piano was in 1978, during the Lebanese war, at the Kadri Hotel in Zahle, Bekaa, Lebanon.

Touma never learned to read nor write musical notes.

For many years, the piano continued to be a faithful friend where simple melodies were played, without any true compositional depth. In 1991, while at the University of Texas at Austin finishing his PhD in Computer Engineering, Touma’s piano play morphed into compositions of complete musical pieces, fully improvised and tuned, without any musical structure within the classical norms, per say.

Such metamorphoses have continued to date.

Today, all of Touma’s compositions are totally spontaneous, without any possibility of replaying them, as Touma still cannot write down his music. In 2011, Touma decided to record such improvised sonatas and share them with friends and loved ones. And…Eternal Silence was born!

Beirut, Lebanon
2012

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my life

My life has been a recurrent series of births, deaths, and resurrections. Through it all, there is a fine thread of sweet moments that renders such cycles bearable, with all their existential pains and the deafening silence of destiny.

My Life is a reflection of such pains, rides, cycles, journeys…filled with soul searches that resulted in emptiness most of the time…only to find solace within the ‘sweet moments’ that spice up my musical compositions with a sweet lullaby.

And my life goes on, searching for a sweet moment to cling to, to smile at, to bask inside its tender energy…though for a fading and evasive instance in time, but oh so worth the hunt and the wait…

Beirut, Lebanon
2012

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My Flowers

Throughout my life’s journey, I have gathered flowers of wisdom, of life’s beauty and higher meaning, flowers of existential pain, eternal silence, pure spirits …

My Flowers is a collection of those crafted ‘journey flowers’ where I share my experiences and wisdoms, all the while leaving room for exchange with the reader about both the truth and the meaning within each.

I bid you peace in your journey among the ‘flowers’, each with its own particular ‘hues’ and ‘spices’, and hope that you will find one which resonates with your own existential path …

Beirut, Lebanon
2014

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life

To Memories…
Sweet Memories…

I paint my life with memories…
Often, the paint fades, and all that remains
Is the authentic state of each moment…

Thus is the music of this work’s impromptus.
Their orchestration captures the spirit of each improvisation,
rendering each musical moment eternal with its creative energy, its spark…

I am my memories…
my experiences…
my moments…

To each memory that awakens life… I smile...

Beirut, Lebanon
2018

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The Dynamics
of the Computer Industry:

Modeling the Supply of Workstations and their Components

Salvador Dali writes: “At three, I wanted to be a cook. At five, I wanted to be Napoleon. My ambition has been growing ever since, and now my ambition is to become Salvador Dali, nothing else. It is, nevertheless, very difficult, because the closer I come to Salvador Dali, the farther from me he goes.”

As you are reading these words, the computer industry is already in a new metamorphosis, a new cycle, a new era.

Such dynamics intrigued me.

It made me wonder and question how obsolete my knowledge is and what type of cycles I ought to follow to keep up with the industry’s roller coaster-like dynamics.

I am sure one might have to spend a lifetime trying to understand the self; incidentally, with the way the computer industry is mutating, I am sure a lifetime might not be enough.

Nevertheless, whether you are an artist/ scientist, an engineer, or an economist/analyst, I know you will find something in the book that will make you question what you already know, and what you should attempt at knowing better.

Enjoy.

Austin Texas
1993

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Eternal Journeys

My existential writings are about opening eyes, prodding one to enquire, to ask questions, to find answers… They are about a journey of enlightenment, of discovery, of self-awareness and acceptance…

Eternal Journeys captures moments in life, moments of introspection, of calmness, of peace, of rage and fury. Such moments, my moments, are all immersed with the will to share my existential struggle with a phenomenological approach, albeit in a minimalist way, but with the eternal screams of a terminal and vulnerable human being, a slowly vanishing dot in life…

I do hope that all the shared moments are enough to push the boundaries of both my spirit and yours, to transform our life and transcend our predicament… or better yet, to bow in peace and just be…

Enjoy the journey…

Beirut, Lebanon
2021

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