Dan Freeman

Dan Freeman is an artist/producer/bassist and music technologist primarily based in Brooklyn, New York and expert on EDI’s (Electronic Digital Instruments) and the integration of live instruments with laptops using the Ableton Live software. 

Born in Boston, of a Nicaraguan family on his mother’s side, Dan attended Harvard University and received an AB in History. After graduation, he moved to New York City to work as a session bass player and he has performed with a variety of major label artists, DJs and Broadway pit orchestras throughout North America, South America, and Europe in venues ranging from underground Brooklyn loft parties to Carnegie Hall.  He has performed and given workshops on electronic music production and performance at festivals, universities and schools worldwide including at: SXSW (Austin, US), Harvard University (US), Berklee College of Music (US), DNA Music  (Bogotá), Kings Place (London), Berghain (Berlin) The Ström Festival (Copenhagen) Tecnologico Monterrey (Mexico City), Argenlive (Buenos Aires), The Universidad de Santiago (Chile) Teatro Rubén Darío (Managua, NIcaragua) and Sonar (Barcelona, Spain). 

He has been a faculty member at CDI since 2015 and full-time since 2026, teaching the Producing Music with Software and MIDI course as well as the Virtual Producer: Live Performance with Laptops and Software course. He is also a professor at The Juilliard School’s Center for Creative Technologies and has been an Ableton Certified Trainer since 2011.     

In 2015, he founded the Brooklyn Digital Conservatory (BKDIgiCon), a platform to bring top digital music producers/performers and educators to emerging markets in Latin America for courses and performances.  The Brooklyn Digital Conservatory has done numerous workshops and courses in Latin America including Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Mexico. In 2017 BKDIgiCon helped create Central America’s first Ableton Certified program in Electronic Music Production in San José, Costa Rica.