The Story
From Theatre
To Finance
to a Karaoke Rig
I'm Matthew Schiffman. I've spent 25 years building software for banks, fashion companies, and blockchain startups. I've led engineering teams and shipped products at scale. I know how to build things that work.
Before that, I studied theatre at University of Miami. BFA in Theatre Design & Production. Theatre taught me something software engineering never could: every moment on stage has to mean something. You can't waste the audience's time. You can't phone it in. Every line, every light cue, every beat has to serve the story.
“Theatre is what separates us from the Dolphins. It's the moment when ordinary people step into something larger than themselves and become unforgettable. That's what karaoke should be — and almost never is.”
I built Waveform Karaoke — a patent-pending, real-time vocal scoring platform designed from the ground up for KJs and venues.
Karaoke is theatre. It just hasn’t realized it yet.
The platform isn’t running stateside yet. Deploying a proprietary scoring engine against a full commercial catalog requires direct sync licensing from the major publishers, so I’m working directly with the right partners to do it properly. No corners cut.
Waveform Karaoke is more than the sum of its parts. It’s 25 years of live audio and real-time systems experience, a theatre background that knows how to hold a room, and the obsessive focus of someone whose entire company depends on understanding what actually makes a great karaoke night work.