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An Introduction

I’ve had my Tumblr account for quite some time now but I never got myself to post. So here we go! My first post! The reason I made the blog is to keep a track of what I am doing so I can keep myself going with what I am doing and stop being lazy.

Now, some words about me :

I was born in Greece in 1993 and I went to school here. At high school, I took up guitar lessons because I was in love with rock and heavy metal music (Well, I still am). After finishing high school I decided to start studying music technology at Akmi IVT. There I found out about music production, composing, mixing, mastering and sound design.

During the fourth semester, I joined Floating Island Studios as a sound designer and music composer for an RPG game which never came to fruition because it was a hard feat for beginners.

Later we released our first game Taco Gun! I participated in the project as a sound designer mostly but I still ended making 3 tracks for it. Our next project is named Super Swing Adventure and there’s an early version available on Play Store! Also, it will be released soon! So, if you’re interested stay tuned!

On SSA, I have participated as a sound designer and music composer.

At October of 2018, I started studying at the University of East London Metropolitan College campus for my Bachelor of Arts degree in music technology.

I’ve met a lot of issues during my studies because things were much different than expected and it was very stressful for me because of the obstacles that appeared during my studies.

Still, I finished the year successfully delivering the following projects :

1. A performance with surround audio, guitar playing, launchpad pro playing and visuals reacting to the middle, high and low frequencies which were made in Derivative’s Touchdesigner non-commercial.

2. A guide to sound and music in videogames and the industry in Greece. Which led me to talk with various people in the Industry in Greece and learned why things are not that great at the moment. The project ended in making a Website and doing a presentation of the said guide. Even though I was alone, I still proceeded to record my presentation.

3. My Final Project was a guide to Visuals and Lights in Musical Performances. This one was very interesting because of the new things I learned during my studies. This is how I got an interest in visuals and Lighting design with Applications like Resolume Arena, Touchdesigner, Iannix and Processing 3. My project ended with a visual performance with visuals created and controlled by me and presentation in front of my classmates.

This didn’t end there though! One of the lecturers knew how to code and I asked him to teach me how to implement audio in Unity Engine. These lessons helped me a lot because I started Implementing audio in Unity Engine for our Super Swing Adventure.

During, the second semester a new teacher started helping students with applications like Max MSP, Max for Live, Ableton Live, and Arduino. I started showing up in his lessons and taught me how to use Touchdesigner for my projects. One day he showed my Processing 3 and we decided to start a project for an Escape the Room game.

Sadly, we didn’t manage to finish it before the end of the semester. But we still working on it which helps me to learn how to code too.

Oh! I almost forgot! During my studies, I helped 3 movie directors with their short movies. I participated as a boom man and location recording engineer at the same time in all 3 of them. But I ended up designing sound, editing music and mixing in only one of them. The other directors never contacted me again which is a shame because I would have loved to have all 3 movies on my portfolio.

The one I ended up editing and mixing ended up to be quite good. So I am very happy with it. Also, it got me interested in learning Blackmagic’s Davinci Resolve which is an awesome(Free too!!!) app for audio and video editing.

So, now I have to learn how to code, learn more things on audiovisual installations, Arduino designing, Video Editing, and advanced music theory.

Even though it looks like there are a lot of things to learn, they are going to help me a lot in the future. Because coding, Arduino and video editing will help me with audiovisual installations and audio implementation in video games. Music theory will help me in writing music for various projects.

So everything is connected in a way!

Well, that’s all from me for now. There are more things coming since I started writing here.

That’s all for now!