Ethan Castro | Source | Founder and CTO at EDGE Sound Research

Ethan is a hard-of-hearing music producer, songwriter, engineer, and inventor with Tourette’s Syndrome. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Composition from California State University, Fresno; a Master of Arts in Music Industry Administration from California State University, Northridge; and is currently a PhD candidate in Digital Composition at University of California, Riverside where he invented his patent-pending audio technology that allows people to simultaneously hear and feel audio in high-fidelity. Ethan serves as Chief Technical Officer of EDGE Sound Research, Vice President of EDGE Original Inc., Graduate Studio Manager of UCR’s Experimental Acoustics Research Studio (EARS) facility, and was previously the Vice President of the Riverside Philharmonic and the founder of the EARS Student Group. Ethan’s 15 years of music production/audio engineering and forthcoming dissertation on tactile audio/multimodal composition positions him as a leader in audio innovation and multi-sensory experiences.