Hello! I'm David Cardona — an educator, composer, sound designer, audio engineer, and interdisciplinary media artist working at the intersection of interactivity, sound, computation, and accessible design. I also release electronic music under the name 28 Lines.
My recent work is centered on interactive installation design, exploring how sound, movement, and computation can create immersive environments. One example is Echo Nexus, featured at the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden for the a Sound Scene Festival in 2025. Since 2024, I have also served on the festival's Creative Advisory Committee, contributing to its artistic direction.
My creative practice bridges real-time audiovisual systems, physical computing, immersive audio, computer vision, 3D graphics, and accessible interfaces. I design projects and custom tools in Unreal Engine, TouchDesigner, Max, and Autodesk Fusion, often combining them with embedded electronics and sensor networks.
I am an Assistant Professor in the Electronic Production and Design Department at Berklee College of Music, where I teach interactive systems, game audio, circuit bending, physical computing, and music production. I have shared my work and research through invited talks and presentations at events and institutions such as MIT, Northeastern University, the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference, the AES AI Symposium, and the Berklee ABLE Assembly. Since 2025, I have also served as a paper reviewer for the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC).
Before shifting deeply into interactive media, I spent years producing, mixing, and engineering music across rock, jazz, electronica, and world genres through my independent studio, Sound Architect. I've been fortunate to collaborate with artists such as John Patitucci, Matthew Nicholl, Oscar Stagnaro, and Fabián Gallón, and my work on Bombino's album Deran contributed to a Grammy nomination in the Best World Music Album category.
I earned my Master's Degree in Digital Media Design from Harvard Extension School, where I focused on programming, computer vision, AI, 3D modeling, and game development, and I previously completed a dual major in Electronic Production and Design and Contemporary Writing and Production at Berklee.
I built this website to bring my teaching, research, installations, and musical projects together in one place. If you have questions, ideas, or a project you'd like to explore together, I'd love to hear from you.