Software engineer · real-time audio and music systems · Brooklyn, New York

Dylan Cantor singing and playing drums

Dylan Cantor

Computer Science and Music Technology at NYU, with a minor in Mathematics, graduating May 2027. I work on Gil Weinberg's research team at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, where I build the iOS client for HearMe. In spring 2026 I studied spatial audio at IRCAM through NYU’s program there, and I cofounded Clubs, which is live on the App Store.

Dylan Cantor and Nick Benak Washington Square News · 5 November 2026 NYU student-founders talk app-based solution to creative collaboration nyunews.com

Selected work

2026

  1. 01 Georgia Tech CMT · Weinberg group HearMe A generative model turns a musician’s own playing into a produced arrangement: separable stems, a chord track and time-aligned lyrics. I build the iOS client.
  2. 02 Cofounder · live on the App Store Clubs A platform for finding people to make things with. AI reads what you’re into, matches you to projects and drives semantic search; collaborators work in real-time channels. 1,908 people.
  3. 03 Winner, Audiotool Challenge Jamarama Four phones, one shared clock, one fused track. A generative model runs on-device as a live texture layer while a deterministic band keeps the beat.
  4. 04 IRCAM, Paris “I Feel Like” A piece composed in three dimensions: every source encoded into an ambisonic field, then decoded from one scene to a speaker dome, to headphones and to stereo.
  5. 05 iOS · solo Clockworks A polyrhythmic composition tool. Concentric clocks share one tempo, notes fire as each hand sweeps past them, and patterns export as MIDI.

Music

Selected releases

I release music under several names — rap, avant-garde jazz-rock, psychedelic rock, electronic. Guitar and modular synthesizer; production, engineering and mixing.

Growing Sqime artwork
Growing Sqime, with Miller Fishback

Growing Sqime

A character-based act made with Miller Fishback. Every alias is a character with its own register, which is the point: the project can move between rap, jazz-rock and electronic music without having to settle on one voice. Almost none of it is made alone.

EDUCATION album cover — Dylan Cantor and Nick Benak
EDUCATION — cover

Close Quarters

A band with Nick Benak, written and recorded together. EDUCATION is a concept album about going through school at NYU: relationships, ambition, what success is supposed to look like, and how little of it resolves while you are still in it.

About

NYU · Brooklyn

B.M. Music Technology (Steinhardt), second major in Computer Science (CAS), minor in Mathematics. Coursework in digital signal processing, machine learning, numerical computing, artificial intelligence, analog and digital electronics, and Max/MSP.

Interests: real-time audio DSP, on-device inference, spatial audio, music information retrieval, interactive performance systems.

cantor.dylan@gmail.com