Howdy! My name is Quinton and I use he/him pronouns. I’m a 3rd year PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell. My research is in understanding the mechanisms by which type 2 diabetes causes bone fragility. In high school, I got really into EDM and wanted to make my own dance music tracks, so found YouTube tutorials and some VeryLegalTM downloads for DAWs, subtractive synthesizer plugins, and sample libraries. I have produced music for myself on-and-off since then. I have never had any formal training, so I’m very excited for this class to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. I’m especially looking forward to recording audio for music and working with analog electronics, because I don’t have any experience in those areas. I also play a little bit of piano.