I've always really liked music, and always been pretty good at it. I remember getting into trouble in kindergarten for attacking another child for singing a song (The Star-Spangled Banner, I think) out of tune. I think I owe most of my musical enthusiasm to the fantastic soundtracks of videogames from my childhood like Burnout, Monkeyball, and Dance Dance Revolution, but it would be neglectful not to mention my mother's songwriting career and my father's collection of Phil Collins CDs.

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The first thing that got me really enthusiastic about music was NBC's "The Sing Off", a 2011 TV show created by Ben Folds and then mismanaged into oblivion by Mark Burnett and Sony. The show revolutionized a cappella music, turning it from the professional-but-humourous performative art that it was in the 2000s into the aggressive pop-adjacent spectacle that it is today. One group of contestants on this show (the winners of Season 3) formed an a cappella group called Pentatonix and continued making music after the show ended. I followed this group's music for years until they became the first band I saw live in 2018.

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I owe my fascination with electronica to the men and women of the 2013 3243 AMES Amperes. AMES, my (first) highschool, required students to join a co-curricular group to graduate. I chose to join their FIRST robotics team, and it changed my life. I had never done any kind of robotics before, and I had never been treated with the kindness with which the Amperes treated me. A staple of the Amperes was their fondness for dubstep artists such as Virtual Riot, Krewella, and Savant. I became a dubstep fan at AMES in 2012 and have loved the genre ever since.

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In 2014, I switched schools, and, inspired by the joy I had experienced singing Tristam and Krewella music with my robotics teammates, I auditioned to join the school choir. I was put in the highest-level choir at the school (the 12-person Chamber Chorale) and introduced to the wonders of singing by the *incredible* Ms. (now Dr.) Erica Glenn. At this school, I met other singers who enjoyed Pentatonix. Together, we started a guerilla a cappella group. We started by singing Pentatonix music, but before long, a few of us tried our hand at arranging. I am thankful for my incredible AISU co-performers for their patience and skill that allowed me to get my start arranging music.

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My voice was irreparably damaged in 2019 due to the efforts of my parents and their associates at the Heritage Foundation to end my life. However, I've kept creating music. In my spare time (distant laughing of engineering students here), I have taught myself to play the piano and a little guitar. I've gotten very good with Audacity as well, and in 2020, Sir Alex Thompson and I went halfsies on a license for FL Studio. I'm always looking to learn more about making music.