I’ve always been a listener of music rather than a musician. The only instruments I played in the past were someone’s living room synthesizers with preset pad sounds and plucking at random acoustic guitars. I grew up in a musical town but never intended to take any lessons. While in college, I befriended local bands, and one friend suggested I should pick up an instrument, but I never did.

Though I wasn’t bad at selecting cassette tapes and CDs for recording playlists to listen to in my car or to show off to friends at work on assembly lines in Silicon Valley. My interest shifted to computers after attending a graphic design school, where I discovered that it’s possible to make music on a computer. While it didn’t happen overnight, having a good ear for musical sounds has been helpful along the way.

​Most of the electronic music projects I work on today are original. I also enjoy mixing royalty-free samples into my tracks. If I use vinyl records or cassette tapes as samples, I have to make some changes to avoid recognizable elements if I plan to publish the work as an album. Creating melodies from electronic sounds has become second nature to me. I’m also curious about the next steps in evolving electronic music as part of my artistic journey.