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