Idris Al-Wazani
(ih-Drees Al-wuh-Zah-nee)

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I’m an aspiring audio/design technologist majoring in Electrical Engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. I design hardware, frontend software, real-time technology, lighting, visuals, and sound for the world of live performance, art, and public spaces in order to make people’s time anywhere meaningful. Feel free to view my work on this site.





Currently obsessed with:

 Embedded Systems, HPF/LPF Circuit Design, TouchDesigner, Ableton Live, Drum Machine Analog Circuits, Complextro, GrandMA3, Electric Energy Conversion,





As a third-year Electrical Engineering major with a minor in Integrated Design & Media (focusing on audio technology), I have had a huge interest in audio design and engineering during my lifetime, and am actively combining my major and minor to accommodate for that vision. Alongside my deep passion for music and music culture, I would love to work as an audio engineer for live performances, broadcasts, or anything that involves an audience in the future! I was born in Austin, Texas from a Belgian mother and Palestinian father. Since the age of five, I have moved to Singapore, Atlanta, Shanghai, Seoul, and now am a passionate resident of New York City.

When I was young, I often engaged in film, whether it be through attending summer film camps, or small daily iMovies on my iPad. Despite the frequent storytelling that went into these amateur films, I was most deeply in love with the science behind the audio and video that went into making films. In my mind, I found it necessary to understand how exactly these microphones, cameras, and A/V systems worked on the micro level to finally be able to apply myself the way I wanted to. It wasn’t until I joined school theater in 2018 that I fully realized my passion for A/V. After acting for a few semesters, I eventually understood that I was set in my ways of working for the A/V crew, as well as stage managing for a few productions. My passion for STEM in school eventually brought me to study engineering in college here at NYU Tandon, and I am now a major in electrical engineering. I have an extremely profound and focused interest in the electronics behind concepts we know of nowadays, and I find it even more fascinating to apply myself to audio.

For the time being, I’m currently working on many smaller-scale projects involving interactive audio technology. Many of these projects and skills have also built me up to recently become comfortable behind the audio engineering and mastering of certain music and film projects in college. My principal motivating goal, and one of my philosophical interests, is to be able to fulfill a role in which society can be geared towards urbanizing in an equitable clean, future-conscious, and entertaining way. I hope my work – for the rest of my life – continues to fulfill this goal.

I spend most of my time on the Tandon campus socializing and working with my friends and coworkers at the NYU MakerSpace. My personal passions are a little further from the technical engineering side, since I spend most of my free time skateboarding, DJing/hosting events, and producing electronic music.



girlsnight


October 2023 - Present
Music Production/Live Event/DJ Duo:


Some stuff I ‘exemplified’:

Large-Scale Event Management and Booking
Large-Scale Live A/V-Tech Design
LED Walls, TouchDesigner Visuals, Lighting
Event Curation and Marketing
Ableton Live Music Production
Wavetable Sound Synthesis
DJing (DDJ/XDJ/CDJ systems)

What started out as an amateur DJ duo with my friend Chase Dent turned into a much larger artist duo and organization responsible for organizing music events for charity, local to Gen-Z NYC electronic music culture.



Throughout my time as a young adult, my exploration into technology has been accompanied by a slowly growing hobby and lifestyle surrounding the electronic music scene in New York. I’m proud to say that I’m growing up being friends amongst what will be the biggest names in electronic and music as a whole in the near future.

My friend Chase and I originally picked up portable DJ controllers and were excited to throw apartment parties that revolved around the rather loud and distorted sounds we were interested in playing. Over time, the level of production and attention that went behind the events we threw turned girlsnight into something bigger.

A lot of the effort I put into our live events goes into the physical and technical presentation that makes live performances so capturing for people. I’m incorporating my knowledge in audio and video systems to create something bigger as a personal creative outlet.

We’re responsible for drawing a crowd to an original experience of hearing music from local artists our age who care greatly about music and nothing else. With original music projects in the works, countless remixes coming out, and events across the country (even in Shanghai), girlsnight follows me wherever I go.
 
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