Ariana Bueno is an all-around audio engineer who specializes in studio and film work. She is passionate about all genres of music, but ordinarily works in pop and rock. She can apply her technical abilities, like audio electronics training, with her own musical abilities to offer phenomenal and intuitive creativity to any project she works on.
Born in South Bend, IN, Ariana’s life has always been surrounded by music. Her father is the drummer of Michiana’s Los Hermanos Buenos, the family’s Tex-Mex band, and the figure in her life that inspired a love for music. Ariana taught herself piano and guitar by the time she was 14 and played backup keyboard in Los Hermanos Bueno until she graduated high school in 2017. It was during band practices that she realized she wanted to pursue music as a full-time career. In high school, Ariana had taken two years of music theory taught in GarageBand, where she learned the basics of what a DAW can do. It was then she discovered the possibilities of recording, mixing, and editing audio in ways she never imagined. Ariana embarked on her dream of producing and engineering music when she set foot at Indiana University Bloomington in 2017 at the age of 17.
Ariana’s career at the Jacobs School of Music began in 2019 when she was accepted into the Audio Engineering and Sound Production program. Through the program, she was able to hone the skills of live, studio, film, and post-production audio workflows. Taught on and certified in Pro Tools software, she has been able to record and mix on both analog and digital consoles, further boosting her ability to troubleshoot software and hardware issues that may arise.
When Ariana was a tech intern at the University of Notre Dame’s Student Media Department, she worked with NDTV, WSND Radio, and WVFI Radio, maintaining the electronic equipment used to transmit radio and television programs.
