Arthur Carabott
Senior Technical Designer at Splice
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolArthur Carabott is a multidisciplinary interaction designer and software engineer with 17 years of experience at the intersection of music, web technologies and product design. He builds performant music UIs and prototypes—often in TypeScript and WebAudio—for both browser and native WebView contexts, and is currently authoring a book on UI for music software. Arthur has led product and UX efforts at companies like Output and Splice, shipped production C++ and web audio features, and contributed front-end fixes and gesture/text rendering improvements to notable open-source TypeScript ecosystems such as thi-ng/umbrella. His freelance work spans high-profile interactive installations (Olympic Parks, Venice Biennale, Tate Britain) and collaborations with artists and brands, showing a rare blend of large-scale public-facing systems and delicate musical interaction design. He also teaches and runs workshops, bringing research-informed pedagogy to product work—a pattern reflected in past residencies at Microsoft Research and Y Combinator Research.
17 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MSc, Global Innovation Design, Distinction, Master of Science - MSc, Global Innovation Design, Distinction at Imperial College LondonGlobal Innovation Design, Global Innovation Design at Keio UniversityGlobal Innovation Design, Global Innovation Design at Pratt InstituteBA, Music Informatics, 1st, BA, Music Informatics, 1st at University of SussexMaster of Arts - MA, Global Innovation Design, Master of Arts - MA, Global Innovation Design at Royal College of Art
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Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescripts10
ui-design10
typescript-types10
html9
vector8
sass6
css6
font-face6
functional-programming6
lazy-loading6
javascript6
functional-programming-language6
jquery6
data-structure5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thi-ng/umbrella
Oct 2018 - Apr 2021
⛱ Broadly scoped ecosystem & mono-repository of 200 TypeScript projects (and ~180 examples) for general purpose, functional, data driven development
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 12 PRs, 17 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Arthur primarily contributed to the `hdom-canvas` and `rstream-gestures` packages, likely focusing on improving the user interface and related functionality. Their commits include fixing bugs related to text rendering and gesture handling, as well as adding new features like the `maxWidth` parameter for text. The user also addressed issues regarding incorrect local positioning in scrolled views, enhancing the overall user experience.
node-graphfunctional-programmingstreamsanti-frameworkdataflow
acarabott/piano-roll-layers
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
A prototype interface for inputting fancier rhythms on a piano roll
Contributions:197 commits, 2 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 5 months
music-compositionprototypepiano-rollrhythmsmusic
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