Mike Mulshine is a music technologist, songwriter-composer, and performing artist interested in expanding access to creative tools and musical engagement. He enjoys playing live shows, co-designing musical interfaces / instruments, building interactive sound installations / audiovisual experiences.
From 2016 to 2019, Mike worked as a Research Specialist in Electronic Music for Professors Dan Trueman and Jeff Snyder at Princeton University. During this time, he co-directed the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and helped co-design and develop bitKlavier, a prepared digital piano instrument, and several firmware based instruments (the MantaMate, Genera, and Feedback Trombone). He recently completed a Ph.D. at CCRMA–the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University–advised by Ge Wang. During his time at Stanford, he composed and devised performances for groups like Distractfold, LEIMAY, NEKO3, and Ensemble Linea. Mike has been a resident artist with Share Music (Sweden) and Wave Farm (Acra, NY). He is a technological specialist for Fashion X Electronics, an arts non-profit that designs beautiful interactive musical wearables, and co-designer / engineer for Blind ENVY, a research project aimed at producing non-visual audio recording tools for blind and visually impaired creatives.
Continuing in the spirit of his dissertation, “Vernacular Computer Music” (2025), Mike’s research understands embodied, affective, and social/communal experience as the primary points of departure for meaningful music-technological innovation. He is constantly eager to collaborate and build meaningful things and experiences with and for the people around him and hopes always to facilitate the vibrant expression of his communities.
