Summary
Robert Esler is a music technologist and educator with over a decade of experience designing electronic music curricula, building interactive sound tools, and directing community arts initiatives. As Faculty in Music Technology at Glendale Community College he leads the Electronic Music program and a Sound Design track focused on gaming, web and mobile platforms, leveraging Pure Data and Unity 3D for portable, embeddable audio solutions. He is co-director of urbanSTEW, where he combines teaching, public performances and instrument/tool building to expand access to art and technology. A composer-performer and developer, Robert created cordova-pd and Pd++, a C++ library of Pure Data objects, demonstrating a rare blend of software engineering and experimental music practice. He holds advanced training from UC San Diego and Yale, and deliberately favors affordable, open-source approaches to empower anyone to make music and art.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Master in Music, Music, Master in Music, Music at Yale University
Bachelor in Music, Music, Bachelor in Music, Music at Cleveland Institute of Music