◆ About
About this work.
I'm Trent Eriksen, a technical product manager and product engineer working in creative technology, where interfaces, live performance, audio, and machine learning meet. I work the way an early stage product and engineering lead does. I stay close to the user, make the roadmap calls, design and ship, then own what happens after release. Alongside the product work I do practice based research in audio ML, accepted at NeurIPS 2026 (Creative AI) and at ISMIR in 2025 and 2026.
This site is a running, public view of my current projects. It documents the product work in depth: how a problem gets framed, how tradeoffs get made, how something ships in small validated steps, and how a bug becomes a postmortem and then a better system. Windchime, Lichtspiel, and HRNSXTN x RDMSXN are the current projects; Probing the World for Groove is my MSc thesis, published at ISMIR 2025. The research page lists every publication.
This site documents process in depth (decisions, releases, incidents, and research method) while most of the implementation and the audio corpora stay private. The research code behind the ISMIR papers is public and linked from each project. Where a detail is sensitive, it is described at a higher level rather than shown.