Allen's Blog

  Like many people, I found it difficult to learn through online classes, it is difficult to keep your attention on a screen, and even more so when the course is not of interest to you. However, my biggest challenge has been to have real contact with the course. The theoretical courses are isolated in numbers, and the practical courses technically stopped being practical. This was definitely what I have disliked the most in the last two years. Not being able to confirm my love for the career has made me doubt my academic decision a lot.  To my luck I have had professors who have awakened interest in the subject through theory, or the possibilities that may exist in the world of sound. On the other hand, I have been forced to learn about sound by other means. just for not having the opportunity to go to live events, I have spent many hours in streaming and audiovisual media, where I think I'm learning on my own, and that while not strictly related to sound, it gives me joy to d...

Some time ago I saw a documentary about the tour of a comedian that I like a lot, "edo caroe". In this documentary Eduardo travels on his motorcycle throughout Chile doing stand-up in bars and theaters while getting to know the different places and sharing with his work team. After seeing this dynamic I was fascinated with the idea of traveling and working. I definitely wouldn't be doing stand up because my jokes are very bad, but that's where my interest in traveling and working at the same time was born. On the other hand, a few years ago I met a sociologist who used to travel around rather rural places collecting stories and songs that he really called popular music, what we understand as folklore. He told me very heartwarming stories of how all the stories connected as I listened to them. I realized that's what I wanted for myself, to get to know different ways of life as I traveled, that would be a perfect job for me. I would like to do a podcast interviewing...