First Director of the WPI Multiverse Concert Series, a Harvard–Smithsonian initiative.

Dr. David Ibbett is the inaugural Director of the WPI Multiverse Concert Series serving as Resident Composer at the Center for Astrophysics, a pioneering role uniting  Harvard and the Smithsonian through live performance. David designs productions where astrophysics, data, sound, and image converge — turning cutting-edge research into immersive musical experiences.

Ibbett's compositional language which he coined — electrosymphonies — reimagines the orchestra through electronic sonic frameworks, drawing structural DNA from symphonic tradition while absorbing the kinetic force of rock, the immediacy of pop, and the textural expanse of the sound of electronics. The result is not crossover, but crystalized synthesis: a reconfigured sonic cosmos where research becomes resonance and theory becomes vibration.

Advancing a bold dialogue between scientific inquiry and musical thought, David Ibbett, Ph.D., is a composer and educator working at the frontier of interdisciplinary creation. As Director of the WPI Multiverse Concert Series, he matrices large-scale live productions in which the complexity of  astrophysics, data, and sound are interwoven to converge in intellectually charged performance environments.

Taking the original bones of classical music away from tokenized diversification leaving the art of classical music intact, David employs Herculean ingenuity resurrecting notes to create a new kind of social classical production.

Dr. Ibbett reengineers the inheritance of classical music, constructing immersive sonic–visual systems that launch its centuries-old architecture toward interstellar horizons with unapologetic invention as a living extension of classical tradition—rooted in history, yet oriented toward the stars, where continuity becomes evolution.

EAM artist Dr. David Ibbett formulates a new aesthetic framework in which music and visual form emerge from the continuum of classical thought, yet are propelled into astrophysical space—where heritage is not preserved, but transformed through exploratory imagination.