Meet The Team

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Sam Catania holds a BFA in Trumpet Performance currently pursues a B.S. in Electrical Engineering at UW-Milwaukee.  In addition to Trumpet, he studied piano and pipe organ.  He also studied degrees in music composition, philosophy and has received paid commissions for his original works for film, concert band, symphony orchestra, and various solo works.  He has served as principal trumpet in several professional orchestras and currently sits as principal trumpet in the Lake County Symphony Orchestra.

Sam has been interested in technology and engineering his whole life and experimented with another startup company  he co-founded called Kardashev One.  The goal with Kardashev One is to design a fully autonomous delivery system that is as easy as a plug in and play modular system.  This drove him into founding MUSX because of the very similar technology.

Sam has a passion for music and engineering and wanted to combine the two and formed MUSX in early 2019.  His vision of the company is build up a new concept for theatrical composition, provide a link to people interested in Tesla technology, and develop new technology.  His goal is to invent a large plasma arc speaker that is able to have the quality of high end speakers but also produce more than 50 ft arcs of visible electricity.

Sam serves as the lead engineer, composer, and safety technician as well as the CEO of MUSX.

Outside of MUSX, you will find Sam on the mats as a blue belt in Jiu Jitsu.

Jake Bissen is a Fabricator, Special Effects artist, and owner of Tesla Knight Productions. His work ranges greatly specializing in anything built and art related like props, costumes, special effect rigs, custom camera equipment, and film making. His most notable work is an authentic suit of medieval armor he made from scratch and wears in a show utilizing Tesla coils, conducting the lightning through his suit. He has a degree in Film and video with a Minor in art from the university of Wisconsin Milwaukee. His fabrication background comes from his time spent at the Milwaukee Makerspace with skills including, machining, welding, woodworking, CNC operation, armor/ blacksmithing, and leather working. His passion is creating practical effects for live shows and movies and creating real life prototypes of things thought to be impossible.