Nicholas Solem is a software developer, audio engineer, electronic musician, and sound artist. He is currently a Ph.D candidate in Computer Music at the University of California, San Diego. His research interests revolve around sound synthesis–in particular, the set of synthesis techniques enabled/enhanced by leveraging multidimensional timbral analysis. He is also fascinated by primitive, forgotten, reappropriative, and 'heretical' sound synthesis methods. He holds a Masters of Music in Music Technology from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the College of Wooster.