Welcome to RAGOMUSIC. This is the website of Ricardo A. Garcia, dedicated to my audio research, and my music and photography hobbies. My research interests include: Sound Synthesis, Algorithmic representation of DSP routines, DSP for sound modeling, Psychoacoustics, Sound, music and media enconding/decoding, Audio Watermarking and data hiding, Cognitive models for music and sound, Evolutionary computation, Music Information retrieval, Music Similarity, Automated Music Recommendations, Online Communities. About my academic background: * Master in Science in Media Arts & Sciences at MIT Media Lab . Part of the former Machine Listening group (now called Music, Mind and Machine) * Master in Science in Music Engineering Technology at the School of Music of University of Miami . * BSEE from the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana (UPB) . At the present, I'm a Senior Software Engineer at Kurzweil Music Systems . I have been directly involved with the production of the PC3 sound synthesizer family and currently helping to develop the back end architecture for the new generation of synthesizers; plus some interesting sound synthesis projects in there. Also, I'm the Founder and CTO of Base 10 Labs, LLC, a Boston based company solving problems related to signal analysis and processing of audio, and developing products using some of my past research. Formerly, I worked as an Audio Scientist at Groove Mobile (formerly Chaoticom). We have developed a very low bitrate/high quality audio/video encoder using chaos theory. I have been involved in the development of the psychoacoustic model, and high resolution analysis of the signals. Lately, I have been in charge of the Track Recommendations technology and Online Community projects at the company. In my former life (back in Colombia) I was part of a musical band Señal Nocturna (Nigth Signal). Also, I enjoy taking some pictures around Boston and some other places that I have visited. You can contact me at: rago @ ragomusic . com
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