Visiting Artists

Mary Spender

Mary Spender is an independent musician known for her DIY approach to music. With over 92 million views and 740,000 YouTube subscribers, she shares insights on the music industry and showcases her unique blend of jazz, blues, rock, folk, and Americana. Mary has released several successful projects, including the Lone Wolf EP, Songbook Volumes 1 & 2, and her debut album, Super. Sexy. Heartbreak. She prioritizes artist independence, engaging her fanbase through Patreon and physical releases.

Simone Torres

Simone Torres is a Grammy-nominated, Latin Grammy-honored engineer, vocal producer, and artist from New York. She has worked with artists like Becky G, Normani, Cardi B, and Dua Lipa. Notable credits include vocal producing "Coming Your Way" and engineering "I Like It." Torres has also contributed to projects like Purple Hearts (Netflix) and Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. In 2024, she released her debut single, "BENT," and EP the thick of it. Outside the studio, she supports young women and gender-expansive individuals in music through workshops and mentorship.

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Suzie Collier

Suzie Collier is a renowned conductor, violinist, and educator. She has performed with the Britten Sinfonia and will soon conduct orchestras in the US. She’s also worked on projects like Jacob Collier’s Djesse Volume 4 and Stormzy’s orchestral Firebabe at Abbey Road. For over 30 years, she led the Chamber Orchestra at the Royal Academy of Music Junior Department, mentoring young musicians. Collier has performed with top orchestras and collaborates regularly with her son, Jacob Collier. Through Suzie Explores, she runs creative retreats and masterclasses at institutions like MIT. She also hosts a podcast featuring famous musicians. Collier is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music (FRAM).

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Christian Lohr

Christian Lohr is a multi-Gold-, multi-Platinum-, and Diamond-award-winning producer and songwriter with over two decades of experience in the music industry. He has had long-term collaborations with artists like Joss Stone and Gianna Nannini, and has worked as a producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and mixer with renowned acts, such as Sting, Andrea Bocelli, Mick Jagger, Jeff Beck, Donna Summer, and Brian May, among many others. A Berklee graduate with a dual major in Music Synthesis and Piano Performance, Lohr currently leads international songwriting workshops in both Holland and Brazil.

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Susan Rogers

Susan Rogers is an American professor, sound engineer, and record producer, best known for her work as Prince's staff engineer during his peak years, contributing to albums like Purple Rain and Sign o' the Times. She helped lay the foundation for Prince’s vault by cataloguing his recordings. Rogers has also worked with artists such as Barenaked Ladies, David Byrne, Robben Ford, and Tricky. She is an associate professor at Berklee College of Music in the Music Production and Engineering and Liberal Arts departments, where she teaches students based on her vast industry experience.

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Portrait XO

Portrait XO (she/they) is a transdisciplinary artist, musician, researcher, and data activist focused on AI, computational creativity, and human-machine collaboration. She has received multiple awards, including the jazzki Award by ELBJAZZ (2023) and the VUT Indie Award for Best Experiment (2021), and has worked with AI audio pioneers like Dadabots. Her AI audiovisual art has developed through residencies at NEW NOW FESTIVAL, BBA Gallery, and Factory Berlin x Sonar+D. Portrait XO founded SOUND OBSESSED, a sonic innovation archive, and is a founding member of The IASAS and Refraction Festival DAO. Their work explores bias, identity, ecology, and underrepresented cultures through AI, data sonification, and experimental sound, including her debut album WIRE and the performance The Cost of Connection at MUTEK Montreal and Gray Area Festival. Portrait XO has presented and performed at major venues and festivals worldwide, including The UN AI for Good Summit, SXSW, Ars Electronica, Reeperbahn Festival, Amsterdam Dance Event, Sonar+D, and more.

Madame Ghandi

Kiran Gandhi, known as Madame Gandhi, is an award-winning artist and activist celebrated for her percussive electronic music and empowering messages on gender liberation and personal power. She gained international attention in 2015 after running the London Marathon free-bleeding to challenge menstrual stigma, and has been recognized as a TED Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Music, and BBC 100 Women. In 2022, while pursuing her Master of Music, Science, and Technology at Stanford University, she traveled to Antarctica to record melting glaciers, which feature in her song "In Purpose"—the first track to credit Nature as an artist, with royalties supporting Earth Percent’s Sounds Right initiative. Madame Gandhi has received the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame Abe Olman Prize and the SXSW Jury Award for her music video "Waiting For Me." She performs, DJs, and speaks internationally, using her platform to promote personal expression, sustainability, and thriving. Her next album, Let Me Be Water, in collaboration with the gender-positive nonprofit We Make Noise, is set for release in May 2025.

David Rideau

Dave Rideau is a Grammy-winning, four-time nominee mixer and engineer based in Los Angeles, with over 30 years of experience in music, film, and television. He has earned dozens of gold and platinum records while working with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Sting, TLC, Janet Jackson, Marcus Miller, Earth, Wind & Fire, George Benson, Juan Gabriel, Al Jarreau, Kirk Franklin, and Boney James. Rideau’s work has taken him across Europe, Japan, and Brazil, and he has embraced immersive mixing in Dolby Atmos, contributing to projects such as Boney James’ Detour and Solid, Snoop Dogg and Billy Ray Cyrus’ Hardworking Man, and the Atmos version of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. His film and television work includes scoring and mixing for the Sidney Poitier documentary Sydney, Disney’s Safety, Scarface, and HBO’s boxing series 24/7.

Steve Genewick

With over 25 years of experience both as a studio and live recording engineer, Steve Genewick has worked primarily out of Capitol Studios as a staff engineer since 1994. He is a three-time Grammy-nominated recording engineer and has worked with artists such as Diana Krall, Gladys Knight, Neil Young, Quincy Jones, and Paul McCartney, among others.

La Chica

La Chica (Sophie Fustec) is a Paris-born, Franco-Venezuelan artist whose music bridges Latin American roots and European modernity. Known for her restless creativity and raw emotion, she blends classical piano and Debussy-inspired harmonies with rich analog synth textures, creating an intimate yet powerful sound. Her acclaimed debut album Cambio introduced her unique voice, and her latest project, La Loba (2021), is a deeply personal and ritualistic work born from loss and transformation. Through her music, La Chica breaks boundaries, weaving traditional Latin influences with contemporary sounds to craft an honest, exploratory universe full of intensity and poetry.

David Mash

Author of nine books and a recognized expert on music technology, David Mash is senior vice president for information, strategy, and technology at Berklee. One of Berklee's true innovators, he founded the Music Synthesis Department (today known as Electronic Production and Design), developed the Center for Technology in Music Instruction, and assisted in the design of the Berklee Learning Center, the country's largest networked music-learning facility.

Conor Dalton

Conor Dalton has 15 years of audio mastering experience with his company Glowcast Audio Mastering, working on music from Daft Punk, Jeff Mills, Marcel Dettmann, Amelie Lens, Kobosil, and many more. He’s also one of the engineers at Calyx mastering in Berlin, where his credits include Rødhåd, Moderat, RedBull, Universal Music, and a musician in the ambient experimental electronica band Island People (Record label: Raster) and in the 77-person band “Headless Chaos” (an NFT music project from Songcamp).

Rosh Rogosin

Josh Rogosin (he/him) first stumbled into NPR headquarters in 1999 while en route to mixing shows at The Shakespeare Theatre in downtown DC. Since then, he has been behind the controls for all of NPR’s flagship newsmagazines and has captured sound in far-flung locations, such as Togo and Benin in West Africa, as well as Cambodia and Greece, for the Radio Expeditions series. He has engineered at both NPR West and NPR New York and spent two years as technical director at Marketplace Productions in Los Angeles. Additionally, he served as senior broadcast engineer for New York Public Radio and Studio 360, and was an originating producer and sound designer for NPR’s Ask Me Another. Currently, Rogosin is the Technical Director for NPR Music, where he has recorded and mixed over 600 Tiny Desk Concerts, and counting. He is a graduate of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College.

Laura Escudé

Laura Escudé's work bridges music, technology, and creativity. A classically trained violinist turned avant-garde electronic producer, she is known for her signature “future classical” sound, blending neo-classical elements with sleek, emotive electronica. As the first Ableton Certified Trainer in 2008, Escudé has become a sought-after live show designer and music programmer, creating performances for some of the world’s biggest artists, including Kanye West, Jay Z, Herbie Hancock, American Idol, and Porter Robinson. She has also composed and performed string arrangements for Kanye West and Jay Z and performed her own live electronic shows at events such as Osheaga, Ondalinda, and NAMM. Escudé is the founder of Electronic Creatives, an international company that trains and supports top-tier music programmers and artists. Featured in the Hello Sunshine + HPE documentary In Her Element as one of three pioneering women advancing technology in their fields, she continues to fuse innovation with artistry, designing cutting-edge performances and empowering the next generation of creators.

BT

BT is a platinum-selling artist, visionary producer, film composer, and technologist. He is an internationally renowned recording artist himself, trusted by superstars such as Sting, Britney Spears, Sarah McLachlan, Tori Amos, Madonna, Seal, and Peter Gabriel to produce modernist and memorable hits with a bleeding-edge electronic flair. He has composed unforgettable scores for films The Fast and the Furious, Partysaurus Rex, Go, Stealth and Oscar Award–winning Monster. 
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Sarah Meyz

Sarah Meyz is a Brazilian harmonica player, producer, and artist known for her unique blend of pop and indie music. She has worked with prominent artists like Seu Jorge, Ethan Johns, and Sylvia Massy, and contributed to major projects, such as Barbie: The Album and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. As a producer, she brings innovative approaches, particularly with her harmonica, combining electronic and real instruments in her recordings. Meyz’s creative work extends beyond performing, with extensive experience in production and engineering at iconic studios like Abbey Road and Real World Studios.
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Alex Rapp

Alex Rapp’s hypnotic pop blends experimentation with intimate storytelling, delivering soulful electronica from the streets of Berlin. A DC native, she is a vocalist, producer, songwriter, and music technologist, crafting dreamy harmonies and maximalist soundscapes that explore love, heartbreak, and personal growth. Her latest EP, Spiralling, examines cycles of dependence and the pursuit of independence. Constantly curious, Rapp integrates new technologies into her performances, most recently using the Mimu glove to manipulate electronic productions while moving freely on stage. As an Ableton teacher, she mentors youth—especially young women—through programs like Beats by Girlz and She Knows Tech, drawing on her own industry experience to help others find their voice.

Rob Clouth

Rob Clouth is a multidisciplinary electronic artist and software developer. Originally known for IDM and glitch, his work now spans techno, ambient, and neoclassical, blending intricate structures with emotive, danceable rhythms. Using self-coded digital instruments and experimental tools like Reconstructor, he fuses improvisation, field recordings, and vocal manipulation to create richly detailed, immersive soundscapes. Notable releases include Cloud Complex (2012) and Clockwork Atom/Deep Field (2014), earning critical acclaim for their precision, depth, and expressive beauty.

Lenny Wee

Lenny Wee is a music director, composer, arranger, and conductor based in Los Angeles. He recently arranged and conducted for Jennifer Hudson's 2024 holiday album and tour, and composed for Jennifer Lopez’s film This Is Me…Now: A Love Story. Wee has worked on major events, such as the Oscars, and collaborated with artists like Celine Dion, Jennifer Lopez, and Jennifer Hudson. He has also served as music director for significant performances, including Jennifer Lopez’s 2021 Presidential Inauguration performance.