In 2008, Owen graduated from the MTIID program at California Institute of the Arts, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Sonic Arts at the New Zealand School of Music, Victoria University of Wellington. Over the past 10 years, Owen has worked as an engineer in studios around Nashville Tennessee and Los Angeles, built a recording facility from the ground up, produced and mixed records for other artists, had production work featured in major motion films, worked for leading ribbon microphone manufacturer Royer Labs, and developed multitouch interfaces for Nokia Research Labs. Owen’s work has been featured in Wired, Future Music, Pitchfork, XLR8R, Processing.org, computer arts magazine, and shown at events such as NASA’s Yuri’s Night, and Google I/O.
