I started the Open Music Initiative in the Music Department at Yale in 2014.  The purpose of the initiative was to provide access to music programming, notation, electronics and more to faculty, students and staff outside the traditional course structure. Moreover, I wanted to do so using open source software and hardware so that the knowledge gained and projects produced therein were portable.

Over the past seven years, the initiative has grown, moved to the Department of Computer Science when I became full-time teaching faculty there, and then spread beyond to other academic institutions. We have also added a number of incredible students, faculty and alumni to the team.

OMI has led workshops on music production techniques, mixing and master audio, the design and use of analog and digital synthesizers, basic electronic circuits, Linux as an audio production environment and more. At the end of the Fall semester 2018, we held the first OMI/C2 (Computing and the Arts) concert at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media.

To learn more about the initiative, drop by our Discord channel here. You can also get an inside peak into the initiative at our Notion Page.