Chet Udell, CEO, Co-Founder

After being inspired by Atsuhiro Ito’s original Optron, Chet Udell re-imagined and produced his first Optron in 2016, winning Best Performance at the Georgia Tech Margaret Guthman Competition, the X-Prize for new Musical Instruments. Chet has 20 years of experience for making electronic instruments and electronic music. He received his PhD from the University of Florida in Music Composition with Cognate in Electrical Engineering. Inventor on domestic and international patents for wireless sensor technology for musical expression, Chet is currently a professor in Biological and Ecological Engineering at Oregon State University.

He has taught students from college to 5th grade, conducting STEAM workshops and hackathons throughout the country and the world on topics from creating new environmental sensors to devices for musical and artistic expression.

Alan G. Sanchez, CTO, Co-Founder

Alan is a Ph.D. student working in the Personal Robotics Group at Oregon State University (OSU). His interests are in assistive robotics and human-robot interaction. He is currently researching how to improve Ultraviolet disinfection robots to combat infectious viruses.

Alan is passionate about educational outreach programs and volunteers at the Mariachi STEAM summer camp at OSU. His goal is to return to his community in the Coachella Valley and become a STEAM instructor for K-12 education.

He spends his free time dancing with his robot friend, Fetch, or working on DIY projects.

Andrew McGregor, COO, Co-Founder

Andrew McGregor in a Grammy-nominated bagpiper with an background founding several not-for-profit and social enterprise companies drawing from his expertise as a filmmaker, inventor, writer, chessboxing champion, entrepreneur, frequent TEDx speaker, mentor, Highlands games athlete, photojournalist, magician, Curator of MindshareLA, and a founder of The Tiziano Project. He was named one of ‘LA’s 40 Most Interesting People’ by LA Weekly, was part of a team that won the SXSW Interactive Award for Activism, won the ‘Foreigner’ division of an Independence Day Chess Tournament in Kazakhstan, he was featured in the Sports Section of the ‘NY Times’, and he has even received a Certificate of Appreciation from Los Angeles' City Council!

He holds a B.A from Connecticut College and a master's from the University of Southern California.

DPAK, Performance and Musicianship Collaborator

Also known as "The Other Deepak", is a virtuoso singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, actor, dancer and record producer known for evoking extraordinary experiences in listeners of all kinds. He is currently the lead singer and violinist for the award-winning electro-pop supergroup Robot Nature. As a freelance musician, he has played with great talents such as India.Arie, Rihanna, and many others, as well as co-starring on Season 5 of the television show "Modern Family" and the film "Bleeding Heart" starring Jessica Biel. He also performed as a lead actor in several national commercial spots, including Cadillac Escalade 2015, iPhone 5, and Vitamin Water. As a composer and producer, he has made music for an array of clients such as Disney, FOX, and Toyota to name a few. He is currently orchestrating and producing new musical content for the highly acclaimed Disney animated series, "Mira, Royal Detective", which aired first in March 2020. He has also created cues and songs for various TV/Film/Commercial spots such as the feature film Basmati Blues, starring Donald Sutherland, Brie Larson, and Utkarsh Ambudkar, as well as being featured on The Today Show. Look for DPAK touring currently with Robot Nature.

Cymaspace

Perhaps the most marginalized community in the world of music are those that are Deaf and Hard of Hearing. CymaSpace is a PDX non-profit that facilitates musical performances, workshops, and concerts and focuses on making technologies that translate sound into lights and vibration for non-hearing musicians and audiences.

We’ve partnered with CymaSpace to explore producing technologies that enable translating sound into color, shape, brightness; and sound into vibration.

Cymatics

Cymatics is the translation of sound into other sensations. Synesthesia is a natural phenomenon where human senses are effectively crossed, causing some people to see color when they hear sound, or to taste or smell things when presented with a color.

Mariachi STEAM Camp, Oregon State University

Mariachi STEAM Summer Camp offers middle and high school Hispanic musicians an immersive musical experience while emphasizing exploration of STEAM topics (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics).

The Mariachi STEAM Summer Camp is the brainchild of Romanna Flores, a dedicated 4-H STEM volunteer and Intel employee. Started in 2016 the camp has created enthusiastic participants and supporters.