About Me
Hello World! I am Oriol Nieto (aka Uri Nieto), a Computer Scientist, Music Technologist and almost a Musician born in Barcelona, Spain in 1983.
I was the singer, guitarist and violinist of Sargon for 10 years, and I am the creator of the SCREAMINATOR, the Growl Hero, and the Ultimate Screaming Lessons. I am also the director of Jarl’em All Studios, in Harlem, New York.
Currently I am a PhD student in Music Technology at the New York University, in the heart of Manhattan. My interests focus on Music Information Retrieval, Music Cognition, and Human Computer Interaction for Musical Interfaces. I am the teacher assistant of the C Programming Course for Music Technologists. I also worked alongside with Jordan Rudess from Dream Theater and Kevin Chartier developing some cool Music Apps for the iOS Platform. I helped them with the MorphWiz and the SketchWiz, really cool apps you can find on the AppStore. I also develop iOS apps by myself, like the Alright or the VoxCarina apps.
This blog is about technology, music, traveling, books, geek stuff, and some other unuseful things that give meaning to my life. Here it is a short informal CV (you can find a formal CV here):
Engineer background
I graduated in 2007 with a Computer Engineer Degree in Polytechnic University of Catalonia. After that I took a Master’s Degree in Music Technology in Pompeu Fabra University and I graduated in 2008. After that I worked 10 months as a Software Engineer developing software for the iPhone platform at MiMundoiPhone, an innovative company placed in Barcelona. I have been given a Fundació “La Caixa” scholarship to take the MA in Music, Science, and Technology at CCRMA, Stanford University for the course 2009-10 and a PhD in Music Technology at the New York University started in September 2010. In the summer of 2011 I obtained another scholarship from Caja Madrid for two more years in order to continue my doctoral studies at NYU.
Music background
I took 8 years in the Convservatory of Granollers (Barcelona), specialising in Violin. I chose Guitar as my second instrument and I quit the Conservatory when my parents bought me an Electric Guitar when I was 14. I started my first band as the main Singer and Guitarist with that age. Then, in 1999, I joined Sargon, a quite successful metal band in Catalonia that has released 1 demo, 1 EP and 2 albums with two different record labels throughout 9 years of existence. Somewhere around 2007 I started the “Ultimate Screaming Lessons“ series, some series that teach you how to scream in somewhat funny-stupid way, which went quite popular in YouTube (especially the first one).
