I'm Seth Villamil, the 2025-2026’s winner of the Joyce and Ron Sakamoto award for my interests in audio perception research and tinnitus during my capstone. I continue to garner curiosity in academia through strong, impactful questions that will influence my prospects as a post graduate student. With interests of teaching sound production techniques at the latter half of my career, I'm finding new ways to apply my knowledge of sound in places one may not think of in order to make the most of my studies. With current collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Arts Research & Technology as a Research Assistant at the University Of Lethbridge, I'm researching technical methods with Digital Audio Workstations and Linguistic Software to produce huge data outputs that could potentially be used for training models and archival purposes. My studies in the Digital Audio Arts continues to offer me opportunities to network and collaborate. From providing feedback and teaser materials for Dr. Arlan Schultz’ Aurawand, to building connections with studio performance majors in forms of recordings and livestreams; I find ways to gain experience in and outside of the classroom. My hopes are to continue my pursuit as a Sound Recordist for films come graduation for 2028. With live sound experience, recording studio time and post sound projects, I continue to apply myself in many fields to stay sharp and multi-faceted in an ever evolving field. I keep myself busy and forever curious of the rabbit hole that is Sound Engineering. Besides my interest and obsession with sound, I am a Beyblade fanatic as the President of the University Of Lethbridge Beyblade Club, as well as a motorsports fan enjoying recreational simracing in virtual reality titles like Assetto Corsa and Dirt Rally.
I do audio / audio equipment and home studio consultation. Some Streamers I've helped:
https://www.twitch.tv/yuzuki_io
https://www.twitch.tv/cerysvt
https://www.twitch.tv/ajmorr2000
Most of my work is done at home with my Dolby Atmos Setup (ProTools / Reaper and the Dolby Atmos Renderer or Dolby Atmos Composer) or at the studio for I currently am a Student at the UofL.
I mix in this studio: https://www.ulethbridge.ca/fine-arts/space/studio-one
As well as this one: https://www.ulethbridge.ca/fine-arts/space/studio-two
