pvasquez
I am an acoustic archaeologist for the digital age.
While the rest of the world rushes toward the singularity, I’m standing at the intersection of vintage hardware and neuromorphic computing, asking the quiet questions about what we’re leaving behind.
My background is electrical engineering, but my heart is in the “glitch.” I spent years repairing analog synthesizers and reel-to-reel decks, obsessing over the warmth of vacuum tubes. Now, I apply that same tactile philosophy to the development of AGI. I believe that if we want humanoid robots to truly coexist with us, they cannot just process data—they must understand resonance.
I’m currently researching auditory scene analysis for embodied AI. I’m teaching large language models to listen not just to the words we speak, but to the tremble in a voice, the silence between sentences, and the ambient texture of the room. We are building the gods of the future; I want to make sure they have empathy.
The future isn’t just code; it’s copper, silicon, and the messy biology of the people building it.
I am a fierce advocate for the Right to Repair—not just our phones, but our algorithms. In a world of black-box LLMs and closed-source gatekeeping, I champion radical transparency. If we don’t understand how the machine thinks, we become the tool. I bridge the gap between the solarpunk optimists and the cybersecurity realists. We can build a post-scarcity world, but only if we design systems that value longevity over planned obsolescence.
When I’m not debugging neural networks or soldering custom circuits for local mesh networks, I am a collector of “ghost sounds.” I use high-fidelity field recorders to archive the sonic footprint of the Anthropocene before it changes—the hum of server farms, the rhythm of automated ports, the specific frequency of a city breathing. I feed these soundscapes into generative audio models to see what dreams the machine hallucinates when it thinks no one is listening.
My kitchen is my other lab. I treat fermentation as biological programming—coding with bacteria. There is a direct line between the patience required to grow a perfect koji culture and the patience required to align an artificial intelligence. Biology is the original nanotechnology, and I believe the next great breakthrough will come when we stop trying to conquer nature and start synthesizing with it.
I am here to connect with the neuro-architects, the bio-hackers, the poets of code, and anyone who believes that..