Originally from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, Casey Farina is a percussionist, composer, sound designer, music educator, and new media artist working in Chicago. His current work focuses on nonlinear and iterative processes as applied to music composition and multimedia art. Casey has presented work at the Percussive Arts Society (PAS) conference, the Spark Festival of electronic music and art, the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the International Society of Improvising Musicians, and a variety of other venues throughout the U.S. Casey currently sits on the board of directors of the Open Music Foundation, a not-for-profit organization for composers and artists dedicated to the promotion of artistic expression based on unconventional forms of musical communication. Casey recently received a grant from the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIRA) at Northwestern University for project CONDOR, a work that explores the presentation of spatial audio via miniature robotic airships. Casey received a BM in percussion performance from Arizona State University in 2000, an MM in percussion performance from ASU in 2003, and is currently finishing his DMA in music technology at Northwestern University. Casey has studied percussion with J.B. Smith, composition with Steve Syverud, Chris Mercer, and Glenn Hackbarth, and music technology with Gary Kendall.