​From an early age, I have always had a great love for music and sound. Throughout my early teenage years I went out of my way to discover a multitude of different styles of music; everything from Bach, Stravinsky, and Shostakovich to Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, and Varese; with a lot of extreme subgenres of metal thrown in between.I feel as though my early experience with underground extreme music genres got my ears acclimatized to the idea of having dissonance/atonality at the forefront of a single piece rather than focusing on diatonic consonance or even conventional modality. I am thankful for these early discoveries in shaping my musical tastes and I feel that they continue to influence me even today.My main interest lies in discovering everything and anything that falls under the loose umbrella term of “post-tonal” music. I would say that I have probably focused mostly on serialism, however I would like to learn about slightly more modern ideas like spectralism and electroacoustic music.It is very hard to narrow the list down, but the composers that influence me and I aspire to the most are Giacinto Scelsi, Helmut Lachenmann, Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kaija Saariaho, Wolfgang Mitterer, Olga Neuwirth, György Ligeti, John Cage, György Kurtág, Ann Southam, Salvatore Sciarrino, Anton Webern and Horatiu Radulescu. In addition to music I also started painting last year and have so far had two art shows since that time.