Team

Koen Tanghe

An engineer in computer sciences by education, Koen first experienced the energy and creative drive of a (then) startup while working for Enfocus (now an EskoArtwork company).
The combination of music and technology being his main interest however, he decided to pursue his passion at Ghent University (IPEM / DSSP) where he worked for several years as a senior R&D engineer in the fields of computational music analysis and interactive multimedia.
He received funding from IWT to work on a post-doc level project on applications of percussion-related music analysis, and founded SampleSumo in 2007.
Koen followed the management programmes "Technology Transfer" and "Innovation Management for SMEs" at Vlerick Leuven-Ghent Management School and is a member of the VOKA networking organization BRYO.
He is also one of the developers of Smartelectronix (where he met Bram) and an advising team member of Wikifonia.

• function: founder, co-owner, CEO, senior R&D engineer
• musical skills: guitar, bass guitar, electronic music (all amateur level ;-) )
• musical taste: Andrea Parker, 50 Foot Combo, Photek, Corrupt Souls, Jane's Addiction, John B, Róisín Murphy, Sonic Youth, Two Lone Swordsmen, Joy Division, Lisa Gerrard, Swans, Trentemöller, Booka Shade, Einstürzende Neubauten, The God Machine, Ministry, Gui Boratto, US3, Nine Inch Nails, Younger Brother, ...

Bram de Jong

Bram obtained his bachelor degree in computer science engineering at Ghent University. He has worked as a senior R&D engineer at the Music Technology Group (MTG) in Barcelona and was a senior developer at Barcelona Music and Audio Technologies (BMAT).
Bram was the CTO of Splice Music, one of the first online music creation platforms that allows community members to create, mix, mash-up and share music using a web browser only.
He is also the "main man" behind Freesound.org, an online community platform that aims to build a massive collaborative database of CC-licensed sound recordings.
Bram has worked as an independent consultant on various projects in the domain of audio and web development, and then joined SampleSumo in 2009 as co-owner.
He is also the founder of Smartelectronix, an international group of independent music plugin developers, and was organizer of the Ghent Sessions, a series of electronic music concerts "with a workshop touch" which included artists such as Eavesdropper, Styrofoam, Funkstörung, Andreas Tilliander, Brothomstates, …
As a small sideproject Bram runs Musicdsp.org, a website which gathers audio-dsp algorithms.

• function: co-owner, CTO, senior R&D engineer
• musical skills: western concert flute, electronic music (amateur level)
• musical taste: Toytronic records, Anouar Brahem, Bon Iver, Buraka Som Sistema, Cinematic Orchestra, Biosphere, Deadbeat, Fleet Foxes, Goldfrapp, Gonzales, Gravenhurst, The Knife, Autechre, Amon Tobin, Venetian Snares, ... (too many to list). Genres bram enjoys lately: dubstep, minimal, kuduru, neofolk, ...