OWEN VALLIS
BFA 2008 – Went on to Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He also worked as an Engineer for Nokia Research, Twitter, and MZ. Currently Senior Software Engineer for Machine Learning at Google
MATTHEW HETTICH
BFA 2008 – Went on to do an MFA at Mills College and then worked designing, programming, testing, and marketing innovative MIDI controllers for Keith McMillen Instruments; Audio, Video, and Lighting Director for Meow Wolf
JASMIN BLASCO
BFA 2008 – Went on to do MFA in Media Design Practices and Art Center College of Design; Worked on marketing innovative MIDI controllers for Keith McMillen Instruments; Active Artist
JOE CANTRELL
BFA 2009 – Went on to do a MFA from the University of California at Santa Cruz and then Ph.D. from UC San Diego where he now continues to Lecture as an active artist
JEFF LUFKIN
BFA 2009 – Currently signed to Tokyo label Motion+- as Eli Walks; Works for Smule as a Music Producer and Artist Relations Japan
STEVE RUSCH
BFA 2010 – House Engineer at Westlake Recording Studios
JIM MURPHY
BFA 2010 – Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; Hired as a full-time professor after graduating and leads Sonic Arts Engineering research area for University
DIMITRI DIAKOPOULOS
BFA 2011 & MFA 2012 – Graduated with his MFA (after completing his BFA) in MTIID and went on to work on experimental prototypes in Intel’s Perceptual Computing Lab. He is currently Research Engineering Manager for Emerging Technologies at Apple
JOHN ASPINALL
BFA 2011 - Post Production Sound Editor / Re-Recording Mixer at Warner Bros. Entertainment Group of Companies
MO ZAREEI
BFA 2012 – Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; Hired as a full-time professor after graduating and leads Sonic Arts Engineering research area for University
CHEYNE BUSH
BFA 2012 – Cheyne Taylor Bush Produces and performs as Tetrad signed to labels such as ZamZam Sounds, Foundation Audio, and Gourmetbeats, and tours the US and UK/EU
DARREN HANSON
BFA 2012 – Currently writing and touring the US/UK/Asia with his music projects Monolith, and Ghost Judas.
PETER GONZALES
BFA 2012 – Working in music engineering and production at Capitol Records, Hollywood, California.
TOMIO UEDA
BFA 2012 – Tomio Ueda Tools and Tests Frameworks as an Engineer for Core Audio at Apple. Part of a NorCal modular synth duo with James Cigler.
YOUNGMIN JOO
BFA 2013 – Previously worked as Software QA Engineer at Universal Audio and at mobile game company Pocket Gems as QA Analyst and Sound Designer; Currently a Software Integrity Engineer at Apple
ANDREW FLORES
BFA 2013 - a software engineer with expertise in designing, developing, and deploying elegant & intuitive user-facing web and mobile applications. Worked at a variety of companies including Eventvibe, DigiGriot, Heal, and Nourish as a Software Engineer
Kameron Christopher
MFA 2013 - Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; Based in New Zealand he is a Senior Executive for AI and Digital Transformation for many organizations including NIWA, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, and Australian Institute of Marine Science
Jon He
MFA 2013 - Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; Went on to be a Postdoctoral Fellow of Sonic Arts at Yale-NUS in Singapore; Currently a Professor in Music Technology at Massey University in New Zealand
Jonathan Becker
MFA 2014 - Graduated and was hired by Walt Disney Imagineering and has progressed to be a Senior R&D Imagineer
ERIC SINGLETON JR
BFA 2014 – Currently worked as a freelance multi-media artist and web developer in the greater Seattle, WA area; Technical Specialist at Mindtree
DANNY BECK
BFA 2014 – went on to lead the founding engineering team at a Web3 startup building software for the provenance, integrity, and logistics of Art. He has taught software engineering, worked as the Lead Backend Developer at a FinTech startup and a Senior Software Engineer at a national media network. He is now a Senior Backend Engineer building blockchain entertainment platforms for music, film, and video games.
BRUCE LOTT
BFA 2014 – Worked on R&D and Web development at Kadenze and is now programming video games for WayForward.
COLIN HONIGMAN
BFA 2012 & MFA 2014 – Senior Software Engineer at Kadenze, Lead Software Engineer for Creative Technology at VTProDesign
DAVID HOWE
MFA 2014 – Production Technical Director at Kadenze, Chief Technology Officer at LightRiders, Senior Creative Technologist at VTProDesign
HIL JAEGER
BFA 2015 – Went to do an MFA at Mills College in Oakland, California; A freelance composer, sound designer, and audio engineer
ELLIOT GLASSER
BFA 2015 - Studio Manager for Ring the Alarm; Composer for Squeak E. Clean Studios; Freelance Composer in Los Angeles
DEXTER SHEPHERD
BFA 2015 - Software Engineer for a variety of companies including AvatarLabs, Sandbox VR, Kadenze, dotdotdash; Senior Software Engineer at RunwayML
DEVIN RONNEBERG
BFA 2015 - Studio Assistant at Blakeslee Recording
DANIEL JODECI REYES
BFA 2015 - Associate Engineer at Technical Multimedia Design; Software Engineer for a variety of companies including Fox Corporation, Diamond, Output, and BudSpot; Senior Engineer at Tubi
BRUCE DAWSON
MFA 2015 - Senior Audio Software Engineer at Output; Senior Audio Software Engineer at Eventide Audio
RODRIGO SENA
BFA 2014 & MFA 2016 – Currently a Software Engineer at Ableton.
MEASON WILEY
BFA 2009 & MFA 2016 – Professor of Music Technology at Austin Community College; Director of R &D at Meow Wolf as well as a lead Artist and Creative Director of many of the experiences
MARTIN VELEZ
MFA 2016 - Associate Engineer at Technical Multimedia Design, Inc. (TechMD)
ASHWIN VASWANI
BFA 2016 - Software Engineering Manager at ChowNow. Previously Software Engineer at sweetgreen, Philosophie, Kadenze
JUAN PABLO YÉPEZ
MFA 2016 - Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; Senior Front End Developer at Roam Digital in New Zealand
JACOB PENN
BFA 2016 – Jake Penn develops audio plugins for Output Inc, tours as a live performer under the pseudonym Mumukshu, and teaches as adjunct faculty at MTIID; Founder and CEO of Minimal Audio
CORDEY LOPEZ
MFA 2016 - Live Audio Engineer Freelance and Senior Technical Lead for Audio at Encore
CARL BURGIN
BFA 2011 & MFA 2016 – Served as Special Faculty at MTIID as well as teaching music technology at Wildwood High School. Carl is the founder of Proximal Records based in Los Angeles.
Daniel McNamara
MFA 2017 - After graduation went to Carnegie Mellon University to be a Research Assistant in the Art Fab Lab to develop embedded computing projects for art and music Creation; Went on to do freelance creative technology work for installations, interactive theatre, prototyping for digital instruments
James Anderson
BFA 2017 - Works for inVia Robotics as a Senior Software Engineer
Kamari Carter
BFA 2017 - After graduation went to Columbia University to do MFA in Sound Art. Then went on to be Sound Designer for Weekend Post House
FRANCIS DANIEL CROOK
BFA 2017 – Currently as a part-time assistant for television composer and voice-over assistant recording engineer for Formosa Interactive.
OLIVER NICKELL
BFA 2017 – Born in Santa Cruz, California, Tree signed to Atlantic Records in 2017 after his song “When I’m Down” went viral and released his debut studio album Ugly Is Beautiful in 2020.
NATHAN VILLICAÑA-SHAW
BFA 2015 & MFA 2017 - Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand; Hired as a Walt Disney Imagineer in Research and Development
Clay Burton
BFA 2018 - Owner and Founder of Clay and Kelsy Instruments building Innovative Instruments
Nathan Turczan
MFA 2019 - Owner and Founder of Scale Navigator LLC; Product Manager at Global Wave Integration
Odie DeSmith
BFA 2019 - Audio Engineering and Mastering Assistant at Aurora Sound ; Technical Assistant at Masary Studios
McLean Macionis
MFA 2019 - Sound Designer at Output Inc; Founder and Owner of Garden Broom Recordings
Andrew Piepenbrink
BFA 2018 & MFA 2020 - Electronics Engineer at Drum Workshop ( DW Drums ) - Roland
Michaella Moon
MFA 2022 - Art Technologist Fellow at Poieto; Went on to do Ph.D. in Sonic Arts Engineering at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand
Olivia Popejoy
BFA 2022 - Audio Video Technician for various organizations including The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, REDCAT, Hammer Museum, Griffith Observatory, Luckman Fine Arts Complex