Writing

Leveraging WebAssembly as a Universal Distributable for Embedded Audio Applications

Investigates WebAssembly as a hardware-agnostic format for distributing third-party audio plugins to embedded systems. Representative DSP algorithms are benchmarked across three execution strategies on the Daisy Seed, showing that ahead-of-time translation yields acceptable performance for a meaningful subset of algorithms.

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A Framework & Toolkit for Live Music Performance in the AlloSphere

Presents a comprehensive system for enabling popular music performance in the AlloSphere, UC Santa Barbara's immersive audio-visual research environment. The framework provides tools for spatial audio rendering, real-time performance control, and collaborative music making in this unique spherical space.

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Closing the Gap Between Open-Source and Proprietary Amplifier Modeling

Documents my senior project as an undergraduate at UC Santa Barbara. It explores the ways in which open-source amplifier modeling has achieved sonic parity with proprietary implementations, but suffers from a lack of support on embedded systems- an ideal form factor for guitarists.

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Concise Fundamentals of Audio

Intended as a brief guide to better understanding sound, signal and music. Its language is intended to enfranchise even the least technically-inclined reader without sacrificing a comprehensive review.

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The Sound of Om

Documents personal research and experimentation regarding the psychoacoustics of Om, a sacred mantra whose ancient origins have given way to worldwide recognition.

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