Alumni

2019 | 2018
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

ASHLEY JACOBSON

BFA 2012 – Ashley is an audio engineer at Westlake studios and has worked with artists such as Shawn Mendes and Brody Brown

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

ABOUT

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.

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