David Cardona
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David Cardona
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David Cardona is a composer, engineer, sound designer, developer, and entrepreneur. He is a Berklee graduate (EPD and CWP) and has completed a master's degree in digital media design at Harvard Extension School. Cardona mixes and produces music under the name Sound Architect, and releases electronic music under the moniker 28 Lines.
Cardona focuses on interactivity and immersive media. He’s interested in accessibility and in the development of controllers that provide alternative methods for people with disabilities to express themselves creatively. You can talk to him about music, audio, sound design, 3D graphics, game engines, interactive art, and AI.
Career Highlights
- AVID Pro Tools certified user
- AudioKinetic Wwise certified user
- Engineer for Grammy-nominated album Deran by Bombino
- Presented Adaptive Art Technologies: Enabling Creative Expression at the SIGGRAPH 2022 conference
- Designed the DisOrgan installation, featured at the Hirshhorn Museum as part of the 2023 Sound Scene festival
- Presented Alternative Controller Design: Motion Sensors and Computer Vision for Synthesizer Control and Performance at the 2024 AES AI Symposium
Awards
- Grammy nomination: Best World Music Album category for Deran by Bombino, engineer, 2019
- Earned Harvard Innovation Labs’ Spark Grant for startup, Adaptive Art Technologies, 2022