Adding Art to STEM

I grew up an artsy nerdy kid, singing in choir, playing in band, as comfortable with a soldering iron, with fixing or hacking an old radio or electronic organ, as with chord progressions or improvising harmonies on the fly. In high school, I sang in every choir, played in every band, and did theater and speech. I also kept a keen and interested eye toward technology, especially music technology. My original goal in going to conservatory in 1973 was to become a band/choir teacher, double-majoring in trombone and voice, with education and techniques courses for choir and band certification. But something fateful happened; I discovered my music school had an electronic music and recording studio.