Mariano Salcedo ’26 ’25

Mariano Salcedo ’25, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is researching the intersection between artificial intelligence and music visuals. He’s designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.

“This approach enables anyone to create music-driven visuals while leveraging the expressive and sometimes unpredictable dynamics of self-organized systems,” Salcedo says. “What if we could improve the ways we model self-organized systems? That is, systems like multicellular organisms, flocks of birds, or societies that interact locally but exhibit interesting behaviors.”