as a young(er) kid i always had a hard time expressing myself verbally. trying to articulate my thoughts felt like an impossible task. i never had an appropriate or effective medium for expression. i knew that music spoke to me. i distinctly remember at the age of 8 my sister putting on a song about a man on his deathbed. i couldn’t fully grasp the weight of what the singer was saying, but i felt the emotion in his voice and especially in the instrumental. that’s when it clicked for me. music is a universal language.
two years later i went to the movies with my family. we watched Tron Legacy. as a kid, i loved all the action and visual effects, but what really stuck with me was t...