Naomi Mitchell

Pronouns: The Herb Alpert School of Music

Special Faculty, Music Technology

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California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, California 91355
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Naomi Mitchell is an artist, musician, researcher, coder, and hardware designer working within the paradigm of synthesis with a focus on modular synthesizers. She has been making eurorack modular synthesizers since 2017 as omiindustriies; and in 2024, helped start the synthesizer company Entropic Loop. She also works with Ableton Live, Max/MSP, touchDesigner, hardware samplers, and custom microcontroller projects. Much of her work focuses on chaotic systems, pseudo-randomness, and feedback networks. 

Naomi is also a researcher and writer, cataloging both synthesis techniques and the history of synthesis. She is a regular contributor to the SIGNAL blog and a chapter of hers was featured in Modular Synthesis: Patching Machines and People. She was a guest speaker for the 50th anniversary of the Serge Modular Synthesizer, Ableton LOOP conference, and the Patch Up! Conference. She is part of the organizing team for the Los Angeles-based Feminist Synth Lab, a synthesizer lending library that also puts on workshops for people of marginalized genders.