AUDIALAB
The team behind the tech
It takes an eclectic group of musicians and music lovers to build Emergent Drums. Get to know the crew behind this groundbreaking technology.
Berkeley Malagon
Berkeley Malagon is an AI expert, engineer, and music producer. In February of 2021, he trained a deep neural network to generate novel drum samples, and the rest is history.
Mike Chen
Mike is a dope musician, engineer, and brilliant entrepreneur. He’s a member of the musical duo KIMBEMIKE, and one of the co-founders of Audialab. Prior to Audialab, he worked with NASA to put a 3D printer on the space station and founded a startup called Magic.
Alan Rodriguez
Alan is a designer and developer, and has worked on AI in various applications. He designs everything from the plugin, website, and brand, as well as handles front-end development.
Ashwin Kiran
Ashwin is a startup veteran, avid music listener, and insanely talented tech generalist. He's focused on growing Audialab in innovative ways and bringing order to the chaos of an early-stage startup.
Matt Flanc
Matt is a Content Creator and musician. Beyond being an amazing keys player (album dropping soon), he specializes in Spatial Audio and engaging storytelling.
Christopher Landschoot
Chris is a seasoned machine learning expert pushing forward the state-of-the-art in audio ML research. He's driven to build the next generation of tools to enhance artists' creativity - not replace it.
Kim Montoya
Kim is the other half of the musical duo KIMBEMIKE. She's a singer, songwriter, composer, producer, painter, and featured photographer by Canon.
Zach Evans
Zach is a machine learning researcher and founder of Harmonai, Stability.ai's open-source AI research lab focused on creative applications of deep learning models for audio professionals.
Sean Myer
Sean Myer is a multi-platinum record producer and songwriter who has worked with top industry artists (Selena Gomez, G-Eazy, FINNEAS, Maggie Lindemann). He's a future-tech early-adopter and visionary excited for the potential of AI in the music industry.
Alex Castillo (A.C.)
A.C. is a multi-platinum producer who has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry (Shakira, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears). He's an innovator shaping the coming paradigm shift in music.
Alex Vasi
Alex studied violin at The Hague Royal Conservatory and taught production at the Herman Brood Academy in Holland. He produced, mixed, mastered, and played guitar on numerous popular songs in the Netherlands, including several #1 hits.