(soft upbeat music) - I started playing clarinet when I was 12, and just instantly gravitated towards it.

You know, I didn't even know that playing an instrument was supposed to be a struggle.

I just kind of started playing and it was fun and I kept playing.

When I was in junior high school and I had just started out, they immediately put me in the junior high school band.

I was sitting last chair, third clarinet, just, you know, the very bottom place.

And I remember looking over are the first clarinets and looking at their fingers moving, and I was thinking, wow, how are they doing that?

I wanna play like that.

And it was probably a year and a half later that I was sitting first chair.

I was in Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and then I just kept going.

And when I went to MIT, it turns out MIT has a great music program.

So I just kept playing music all throughout college.

I play in a classical chamber music group called Radius Ensemble.

It's a group in the Boston area, and we perform a concert season every year.

It's a completely professional group.

So, everyone in the group is actually a professional musician.

Meanwhile, I'm there too and I have a day job which is running the engineering department at Harmonics.

It's kinda fun leading these sort of dual lives.

There's this sort of wonderful thing that happens when you're playing music with musicians where you don't have to say anything.

The music itself is the language.

And if you really click with whoever it is that you're playing with, you know, that magic starts to happen.

That feeling of playing in a band of connecting with other people in the room, you know, that's what games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band is about.

I think it's because the company Harmonics is filled with musicians.

We all know what that feels like, we've all experienced it.

Know whether it's conscious or not, we are essentially that into the games.

And so when you play our games, that's what you're feeling.