• Name: Emil Pasqualini, born on 13.08.2000 in Deutschlandsberg, Austria as Emil Berger

• Based in: Graz, Austria, Europe

• Role: Student Researcher & Live Event Technician

• Academic Degrees (for Austrians): BSc BSc

• Expertise: Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Audio Engineering

• Contact: e.pasqualini@{outlook.at, tugraz.at}

• Profiles: LinkedIn, Google Scholar, ORCiD, SPSC @ TU Graz

What follows is the slightly less formal, more narrative, and decidedly less humble version of my professional life. It’s an attempt to explain the chaotic trajectory that led me here, a place fuelled by both algorithmic precision and distorted guitars. If you're a "just the facts, please" kind of person and wish to bypass the semi-humoristic fluff, I wholeheartedly invite you to download my full CV here. For everyone else, welcome to the show.

My journey into the machine began, as it often does, with a healthy dose of adolescent ambition at the HTBLA Kaindorf, where I took the mechatronics path. It was there I learned that the world is made of systems and that I possessed an unnerving desire to understand their rules. Apparently, one brutal engineering degree was not enough punishment, so I enrolled in a double degree programme in Information and Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering-Audio Engineering at the Graz University of Technology and the University of Music and Performing Arts. This plunged me headfirst into the beautiful, abstract world of signal processing and machine learning. My core mission became teaching machines to listen – to untangle the messy knot of human conversation from the cacophony of the real world. I now continue this slightly quixotic quest as a Student Researcher at the Signal Processing and Speech Communication (SPSC) Lab, under the supervision of Prof. Barbara Schuppler and Prof. Franz Pernkopf.

Meanwhile, in a completely different part of my brain, a parallel universe was unfolding. My musical journey started respectably enough with classical piano training, but soon took a sharp left turn into the chaotic beauty of various Metal genres. As a keyboardist and vocalist for the band Adiant, I found a home for raw, unfiltered emotion, specialising in the kind of guttural screaming that makes small animals nervous. But my artistic path didn't stop there; it fragmented and expanded into stranger territories, from the deconstruction of form in abstract digital art to the challenging, immersive soundscapes of noise music. This artistic side isn’t just a hobby; it’s the other half of the equation, leading me to work as a live event technician, managing the delicate dance of sound and light for a vast spectrum of performances.

So, what’s the master plan here? How does one reconcile a love for Fourier transforms with an obsession for a wall of beautiful, structured noise? I call it my "Joint Program". It’s more than just studying two fields at once; it’s the personal operating system I run on. It’s the grand, slightly unhinged experiment of my life, built on the conviction that these two worlds are not separate, but are in fact two dialects of the same root language. It’s the search for the rhythm in an algorithm, the mathematical precision in a perfect harmony, and the raw data in a human scream. It is, ultimately, the deeply held conviction that the universe doesn’t distinguish between art and science – it just provides patterns. My job is simply to find the most beautiful ones, whether they’re hidden in a sound wave or a Python script. And occasionally, to scream about them into a microphone.

If words are the map, the images are the territory. Feel free to explore the true landscape of this Joint Program on my me, but… page.