Hi João,

Mind if I join your pd-list noobs introduction thread? My name is Andy Farnell, comp and cog sci from the UK, postgrad in DSP (analysis-synthesis), ex-BBC radio. Lots of languages and hardware design experience too. I used to write music for TV, radio and film and produced/programmed a few bands you might have in your collection. Now I earn a crust as Unix system/site programmer. Rather fallen in love with puredata and I'm using it as vehicle to write a book I've been planning to do for about 10 years "Practical synthetic sound design". Main platform Debian and Slack on fanless mini-ITX hardware (excellent for sound studios imho because you can actually hear what you're doing instead of a whirring noise)

Current TODO/ambitions Become a Jedi master of PureData Finish the next album of my own Gnomadic stuff Get my book published next year. Drag the games industry screaming and kicking into the 21st century by promoting efficient clientside synthesis in place of crappy samples. Contribute somehow to Pd, Dyne:bolic and some other OSS projects through advocacy, documentation and code.

stuff at http://obiwannabe.co.uk