OUR COMPANY

Vaughan Risher is an inventor, designer, technologist, and founder of Muse Ovations, where he develops new systems across computation, audio, electronics, acoustics, and advanced engineering.

His work combines technical development with a multidisciplinary background spanning product design, software, music, visual communication, and entrepreneurship. Over the course of his career, he has launched a web development business serving celebrity clients, helped develop and launch consumer products generating millions of dollars in global sales, built a leading music-photography brand, written award-winning screenplays, produced music and video projects, and contributed to the design and launch of a New York Times bestselling book.

His invention work includes the Fade Device / Faderlator, a patented music-technology system with an international patent portfolio and active hardware development. That work has expanded into broader research involving signal processing, acoustics, computational systems, and new approaches to engineering and invention.

Risher is also developing a formal methodology for identifying shared structures across technical disciplines and using those relationships to generate new engineering possibilities. This research has helped establish the foundation for Muse Ovations’ expanding work in relational computation and computational discovery.

His creative background remains an important part of his work. A musician, photographer, writer, and visual artist, Risher has exhibited artwork in London and Los Angeles and has worked throughout the music industry in photography, video production, sound production, songwriting, and artist development.

Joel Reinke is a music-industry veteran, engineer, programmer, and inventor with more than 30 years of experience spanning performance, technical design, software development, and music production.

His work has contributed to projects generating hundreds of millions of dollars through revenue, ticket sales, and subscription-based income through web applications, inventions, and technical development for projects associated with Fortune 500 companies.

As both a musician and engineer, Reinke has worked across a wide range of technologies and creative systems — from national touring acts and music production to custom software, guitar pedals, synthesizers, microcontrollers, analog electronics, and FPGA-based development. He brings more than two decades of programming experience across a broad range of languages, together with hands-on hardware expertise focused on building tools that address real performance and production needs.

His more recent work has included exploration of Eurorack-inspired synthesis, hybrid analog/digital systems, embedded electronics, and new approaches to musical interaction. That combination of software, hardware, and performance experience allows him to approach product development from both an engineering and a musician’s perspective.

Reinke’s work also includes the invention of new synthesis methods for digital, analog, and hybrid synthesizers; advanced custom firmware development for Launchpad Pro; experimental web development spanning music, animation, 3D, and interface design; web-based systems for a 28-foot interactive touchscreen wall; 3D web projects using Xbox Kinect; and extensive exploration of new possibilities for MIDI.