WolfTalk: Podcast About Audio Programming (People, Careers, Learning)

In this podcast episode, I was lucky to interview another member of the Aalto Acoustics Lab of the Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. Jon Fagerström is conducting his PhD research in the domain of audio signal processing, specifically, sampling synthesis and artificial reverberation. We are discussing what challenges beginning researchers face, how to find your niche in audio research, and what interesting ways there are to end up as an audio researcher.

Episode notes: thewolfsound.com/talk003.

In this episode, I had the privilege to interview Leonard Fierro, a PhD student at the Aalto Acoustics Lab of the Aalto University in Espoo, Finland.

Leonardo comes from Italy and transitioned from Communications to Audio Signal Processing. He's currently (as of 2021) in his third year of the doctoral studies. His focus is on time-scale modification (as in YouTube's 1.5x or 2x speed buttons) and transients.

In this episode, we are discussing his background and also what is needed to carry out research in the domain of sound processing.

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WolfSound is all about making it easy for you to learn audio programming. We remove the requirements to read thick books, pay for expensive courses, and attend universities for years. This podcast episode is meant to give you an example way to learn audio programming: my way. I want to share my story with you so that you can relate and believe that you can do it too!

In this podcast episode, you will learn

> how mathematics and music led me to study the field of acoustics,

> how I learned programming from scratch,

> how I handled two study programmes and a part-time software engineering job,

> how I learned audio programming basics within and outside of the university,

> which books I read to learn programming and sound synthesis,

> why I decided to pursue a research-focused master's degree in signal processing,

> why I created WolfSound,

> where I am going next 🧐.