Los Angeles, CA
Gewenxin Yu
Los Angeles, CA
about
I am an MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, working toward doctoral research in audio signal processing, bioacoustics, and machine learning. I founded Mantle Sound in 2025 and hold an MSc in Sound and Music Computing from Queen Mary University of London.
My work spans from developing neural audio codecs for geophone recordings to creating environmental field recordings; since 2023 I have conducted expeditions across China, the UK, France, and Switzerland, most recently the frozen lake of Yema Haizi (~4,050 m) on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, where a three-hour dual-microphone take ran end to end through my field-audio-tools suite and is published as an open field report.
research
MSc thesis, Communication Acoustics Lab, QMUL
sound works
Field recordings captured from docks, mountains and coastal areas
memberships
- Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
- British Wittgenstein Society (BWS)
- International Playing-Card Society (IPCS)
- Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- Les Amis de Xenakis