I started looking into music-making in earnest around 2020. Before that in college I had worked with Max/MSP for audio synthesis, as well as building a software synth as part of my capstone project for a creative coding course.

Despite having started off with synthesizers, I've since moved away from them a bit in favor of guitar. I appreciate the immediacy and performability of guitar, and learning an instrument gives me a physical challenge to improve at.

More than anything, music has made me more comfortable with being inexperienced. It has also made me realize that while there is always more to learn, I need to make choices and learn what is important to me. Making those choices and settling on a direction is still my biggest challenge, but at least I can see that I've grown.