Carlos A. Sánchez García-Saavedra
CCRMA Role:
Faculty/Staff
Current Employer:
CCRMA, Stanford University
About Me:
Carlos A. Sánchez García-Saavedra, Stanford University, CCRMA Faculty/Staff (Researcher, System Administrator, Engineer, Musician).
Carlos is an eclectic multidisciplinary musician, composer, engineer and researcher (he likes the word “Musingineer”), born in the beautiful city of Sevilla (Andalusia, Spain), who loves music, jamming, learning, teaching and developing bits and things to minimize technical thinking in favor of musical flow, performance and creativity: “More Muso (playing, creating), Less Tech (clicking, typing, touching)”.
He started gigging around the world at a very young age as the main guitarist of the renowned Flamenco Ballet. He also studied Classical guitar in the Conservatory and self-taught other instruments along the way, and for many years he’s been a guitar and music technology instructor. As a musician he’s been composing original works and collaborating with bands and musicians, playing different roles (soloist, live and session musician, co-producer, music and tech advisor), instruments (guitar, piano, keyboards, bass, drums, cajón, ukelele), and genres (rock, metal, flamenco, classical, contemporary), and involved in many projects and productions for events, records, radio and TV. In parallel, he completed his Superior CS Engineering Degree and for many years he worked for the Spanish and local governments, Aeronautics and IT Consulting companies in almost every position from programmer to software architect and director, mainly in projects related to Mobile technologies, Enterprise platforms, Web standards, and Service Architecture and Systems Integration.
His research and development projects are mostly oriented to put technology at the service of music, creation and improvisation, trying to free the creative mind from displays, mice and keyboards, developing software and hardware to achieve this goal. He’s been an active developer, translator and co-director in multiple musical and technological Open Source projects and multimedia Linux distributions.
