Charles Holbrow
Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCharles Holbrow is an interdisciplinary technologist and Assistant Professor with 13 years of experience at the intersection of software engineering, audio, and research. He developed DSP and frequency-domain processing tools at MIT’s G.R. Harrison Spectroscopy Lab and spent nearly a decade advancing audio technology and interactive media at the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of the Future group. As a former CTO and iteration designer, he pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on optimization for constrained platforms—shipping audio pipelines, game systems, and prototype tools in C, C++, Lua, and web stacks. Now in academia at Berklee, he blends pedagogy with applied research in audio tech while bringing practical studio and production experience from top music labs and studios. A Hack Reactor alumnus who completed an MS and PhD at MIT, he’s comfortable moving between low-level DSP code and high-level creative systems—a rare mix that often surfaces in fast prototyping and production workflows.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Media Arts and Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Media Arts and Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFull Stack Web Development, Full Stack Web Development at Hack ReactorUMass LowellSudbury Valley School
English, German
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Github Skills (171)
composition10
extensible10
midi10
audio10
openframeworks10
music10
juce10
pitch-detection10
music-composition10
rendering9
javascript9
computer-music9
synth9
expressjs9
synthesis9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fluid-music/open-drums
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Drum sample libraries packaged for fluid-music
Contributions:21 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 months
singingmusic-compositiondrummidifluid
CharlesHolbrow/blog
Nov 2015 - Mar 2021
Static blog generator using Metalsmith
Contributions:11 PRs, 100 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 4 months
blog-generatorstatic-sitestatic-blogstatic-blog-generatormetalsmith
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