Ezra Sandzer-Bell
FOUNDER / CEO / CMO / PRODUCT MANAGER
Ezra is the sole proprietor and founder of AudioCipher Technologies LLC. He wrote the original text-to-midi algorithm and product concept. He acts as the company's CEO, CMO, Product Manager and Partnership Director.
Early inspiration and music background
AudioCipher was founded in 2020 but the app's roots go back nearly twenty years.
Ezra is a lifelong performing musician and multi-instrumentalist. He got his first break during the mid-2000s, in a celebrated Chicago instrumental math rock trio.
By 2014 and 2015, he had authored two books on esoteric music theory and was picked up by a publisher called Sync Book Press. These two books described a historical text-to-music system called musical cryptograms.
In 2017, he learned to code and wrote the Ruby algorithm that later became the basis of AudioCipher Version 1. That app was called Songwriter's Key. It ran in a web browser, had a text-to-midi generator and came with a file management system.
Ezra studied music theory fundamentals in college and taught lessons both publicly and privately, through accredited audio production schools like Pyramind and Champion Sound Studio. He has also written instructional work for Hooktheory.
Marketing AudioCipher
Ezra runs all marketing and partnership efforts at AudioCipher. This includes press coverage, finding and hiring contractors, securing new music producer partnerships, getting into plugin marketplaces and networking in general.
In 2021 he partnered with Cir Crawford to launch a remote beat making event called the Cipher Circle. Ten music producers used AudioCipher to turn words into melodies and show their beat making workflow as a video demo.
Ezra later hired Ableton producer and composer Chris Gruchacz, co-writing over two dozen text-to-music demos across a broad range of genres.
2023 was an extraordinary year for generative AI music tools. Ezra began reporting on new products through the AudioCipher blog, to help raise awareness and create value for site visitors.
Within 18 months, Ezra's blog articles had driven more than 850,000 unique site visitors through organic search alone.
Music tech marketing consultant
In 2024, while overseeing the design and development of AudioCipher V4, Ezra began writing weekly deep dives on AI audio and music for LinkedIn.
His LinkedIn journalism launched a parallel track of independent music tech marketing consultations. He has worked for Suno, Audio Design Desk, Kits AI, WavTool, ACE Studio, HookTheory, RipX and many others.
Ezra continues to offer fractional marketing consultant for music tech startups while overseeing his primary responsibilities at AudioCipher.
He is also a featured author for the international MIDI Association.
You can contact him here with any inquiries related to partnership or consulting.
