MJ Caselden is a creative technologist, sound designer, and electronic musician. Trained as a both a musician and engineer, MJ explores new ways to control sound, incorporating custom interactive instruments and software. He started making electronic music in 2005, and went to Berklee College of Music for a B. M. in Electronic Production and Design in 2006. While living in Boston at Berklee, he began experimenting with electronics, both hacking toys and synthesizers, and designing his own circuits and software to generate sounds in new interesting ways. He began to re-design the tools that he used to make music, and then use those new tools to produce new, innovative sounds. As he moved further into electronics, he moved to University of Southern California in Los Angeles. There, he received a second bachelor’s degree, a B. S. in Electrical Engineering with an emphasis in DSP. All along the way, he has dedicated time to creative projects, drawing on his deeper technical background to help artists bring their ideas into fruition and also to develop his own personal artistic goals.
