Ramon Castillo

**Ramon Castillo** (Autumn Ate Everything) teaches several music technology and Composition for New Media courses at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. His classes include Music and Sound for Games, Digital Synthesis and Remixing, and Contemporary Styles and Analysis. He directs the Contemporary Electronic Ensemble, which focuses on expressive live performance using electronic instruments not limited to DAWs, hardware synths and samplers, circuit bent toys, microcontroller development boards, signal processing units, video synths, and video games. He founded UML's Video Game Ensemble which launches in Fall 2022. His creative output as composer and performer revolves around expressive/automated looping in Ableton Live and real-time *Minecraft* gameplay. Ramon regularly performs with his daughter, Luna, who got him hooked on *Minecraft* as a tool for artistic creation.

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