Year 12,024 of the Human Era

Wed, Jan 1, 2025 3-minute read

And just like that, the year 12,024 of the Human Era is over. And what a year it has been! Biggest highlights: I got married and organized ISMIR in San Francisco. N.B.: organizing a large international research conference is way more stressful and time consuming and less fun than getting married (in case you’re having crazy thoughts).

On top of that, I travelled an embarrassing amount, emitting more CO2 than most humans. Sorry planet and future generations, this is truly terrible and it’s gotten out of hand.

Here I go with the list that can somewhat summarize this intense yet beautiful 12,024:

  • Start of the year in Baja California Sur, staring at the moon over the Pacific Ocean
  • Epic skiing both in Tahoe and the Rockies
  • I see Tool in Denver. Even after seeing them so many times, they keep reaching parts of my myself that I didn’t know were reachable
  • I vote for the first time as a US citizen and it’s hella confusing
  • For the first time in my life, I experience a total solar eclipse and it is epically beautiful
  • Visit Austin for the first time and it is awesome
  • Several Rumbahía shows make my life happier
  • ICLR in Vienna to present our CompA work (spending the nights in the most surreal hotel room)
  • Welcome home, Guillermo (our new car)!
  • I go to NYC for a long weekend because I love it too much (and my friend has an incredible 2 year old)
  • CVPR in Seattle. Seattle is beautiful!
  • Best birthday ever camping in Yosemite with my fiancita
  • Drinking cava with my grandpa in Barcelona
  • La Bossa d’Urina summer world tour with Litos!
  • Festa Major de Granollers for the first time with Anita
  • We get married and it is beautiful! :_D
  • New video of La Bossa d’Urina, La Solució
  • We have an incredible set of interns and our team basically kills it at Adobe MAX
  • Welcome home, little Telly!
  • I go to NYC for another long weekend because I love it too much (and my friends celebrate their 10 year wedding anniversary and I play a song for them)
  • We go to Portland and I find a signed copy of Infinite Jest for $17
  • The orange dude wins (not surprised)
  • I organize ISMIR and it is epic
  • Thanksgiving in beautiful Pasadena (heaven on earth)
  • Our Sketch2Sound technology goes viral with over 200k likes! :O
  • Christmas in Barcelona
  • The best World Tour with La Bossa d’Urina takes place over winter with 5 shows around Catalonia <3
  • I rock the fuck out in my hometown with As the Covers
  • End of the year staring at incredible fireworks and beautiful drones on top of the font màgica in Barcelona with my wife