Sound Design

Alvaro Lopez is an electronic musician, technology researcher, educator, composer, and sound designer. He is a PhD in Digital Composition focused on artificial intelligence for music analysis, generation and composition. His invention, the Progresive Adaptive Music Generator (PAMG) holds the patent US 12,427,419 B2. His studies involving procedural music generation in videogames, and real-time parametric scoring have been featured in the 12th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on Functional Art, Music, Modelling, and Design (FARM ’24), the 5th North American Conference in Videogame Music, University of Michigan, Music and the Moving Image conference New York University Steinhardt, the Art of Record Production Conference, Berklee College of Music, Boston, and The 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. His approach to interactive music generation is published in the journal Sound Effects SoundEffects - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience. He has worked as mix engineer, sound designer and soundtrack composer for movies, short films and documentaries, alternating with instruction in music and media studies programs in Bogota-Colombia, Akron-Ohio, Houston-Texas and Riverside-California. His instrumental, audiovisual, and interactive pieces have been part of audiovisual festivals such as La Diaspora (Barcelon), New Music Festival (Akron, OH) and UCR is Composing (Riverside, CA), among others. He is known for custom-design wireless UI designs for portable multi-touch devices, and for integrating gyroscopes and body motion in multimedia pieces presented at the Culver Ceneter for the arts (Riverside). His experimental audiovisual montages have been presented in several international festivals such as the UCR Film Festival, Sound and Fury, Extrabismos, Festival de Cine y Video de San Juan de Pasto, and in several experimental venues at Barcelona, Lima, Berlin, Bogota, Manizales and Tunja, among others.