Rob Toulson is Founder and Director of RT Sixty Ltd, specialising in technology development for the audio and music industries. He was previously Professor of Creative Industries and Commercial Music at University of Westminster and Director of the Cultures of the Digital Economy Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University. With a first degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Doctorate in electronics and digital signal processing, Rob is an innovative music producer, sound designer and studio engineer working across most music and film genres. He has worked with many established music artists including Talvin Singh, Ethan Ash and Janet Devlin, and has taken the role of recording, mixing and mastering engineer on a number of albums for Mediaeval Baebes, who have previously topped the UK classical chart. His sound design and audio installation collaborations include work with contemporary artist Eduardo Kac and BAFTA winning filmmaker Shreepali Patel, and have been showcased at Glastonbury Festival, The V&A Museum, Natural History Museum and the Ruskin Digital Gallery. Rob is also a successful software engineer, having developed and co-produced the ground-breaking Red Planet EP and iPhone music app for alt-pop artist Daisy and The Dark. The novel ‘variPlay’ app platform allows users to manipulate the style and genre of music playback in real-time and has since been utilised for commercial releases by Warner Music Group artists Ximena Sariñana and Ofenbach. Rob is also inventor of the unique iDrumTune iPhone app, which assists percussionists with drum tuning and has reached the position of number one music app in 37 different countries on the iPhone App Store.
