Yifan Lu's Front Page

I just decided to turn this wiki system that I did for fun into my frontpage, for the following reasons:

• I have multiple devices and I want to be able to edit everywhere, WYSIWYG is a bit chunky but I don't need to deal with all the git stuff and I don't need to jump between files edit in vim and such
• There are more ideal options to me, like oscean or werc, but right now I don't have time to configure Uxn or Plan9 environment, so MediaWiki on Debian seems to be a good option
• I managed to make this as a subdomain, but then I realized update a static front page is actually pain in the ass, then I just forward my front page domain to it

My Interests

I am in my early 20's and I think I just found out things I want to do, I think I took longer time than most people.

Music Composition and Instrumental Arts

I used be a DAW guy, and I did Music Tech for undergrad degree, then I want to move on with music but found midi is very limited

Operating System and Computer Architecture

I was into Computer when I was a kid, and I wanted to incorporate that into my music when I was a teenager, so I ended up becoming a Reaper/Renoise/Pure Data kinda of guy. Then I wanted to go deeper in Music Tech as well, seeing most of the Music Tech stuff are made by EECS people, and musicians are more in a customer side.

I am also a Linux user and Open Soure advocator even since when I was just a customer, then I was inspired by people like Devine Lu Linvega and Urial, and projects like suckless, Inferno, and Oberon, with the rise of RISC-V archetecture, I decided to seriousely study Computer Science, with specialization in Operating System and Computer Architecture, also at some time I want to feed it back to Music Tech after I made it.

Amplifier Circuit and Digital Signal Processing

I started making music mainly by making DAW-based music, so I started knowing this industry pretty well and then I knew Reaktor/Max/Pd soon after. The thing that made me really want to get deep into this is after I picked up a guitar, I was inspired by the products designed by BOSS, Fractal, and Line6.

Animation/Film Making and Game Design

I was mostly a reader, that I started reading things like James Joyce and Proust from very young age and I read bunch of Chinese/European/Russian Literature, I can tell well about any history I am into and Chinese/Western Pholosophy in general as well. Then I tried to become a gamer since I do feel that's something I missed in my childhood and I thought I was bad at it, I compensate this by playing mostly Rogue/Metroidvania/Soul-like games, and Monster Hunter. I do know well about Japanese film animation in the 80s and 90s, Mainland/Hongkong/Taiwan movies and essential films in the film history, I do see myself as a completely amature in film.

I went to Calarts for the Music Tech program, in a short period I was doing a lot of things in Intergrated Media and Film department, doing Motion Capture, 3D scanning, TouchDesigner, Microsoft Kinect and such, I found visual things actually have some possibilities for me to explore, then I learned Jitter and VVVV as well. I ended up want to make something with Blender+Rhino/Grasshopper+Unreal/Unity/Godot.

I am not into Modern Art.

For old archive and pseudo stuff please go see Yifan Lu's Personal Wiki