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Ge Wang: In Concert With Technology
"As Picasso said, 'Everyone is born an artist,' and I really do believe that," says Stanford University Assistant Professor Ge Wang.
Credit: Ge Wang / The Stanford Daily
Ge Wang has regretted spending too much time coding and playing StarCraft, but he has never regretted playing a second of music.
He is the mastermind behind the music app start-up Smule, which has released a number of wildly successful apps. Dedicated to sharing his love of music and pushing the boundaries of computer music, Wang is also an assistant professor of music and, by courtesy, of computer science, at Standord University. He also finds time to stay involved with a number of musical groups on campus.
In college, Wang chose to study computer science at Duke University, which he credits to his interest in video games. "It seemed to me that the one thing more fun than playing video games was making them," he says. "Software is a good way to express ideas you may have, and it's easy to get together people around the world to use it. That's magical."
Though he had wanted to somehow combine music and computer science in his studies, Wang didn't realize how he could do so until he took an electronic music class his junior year.
From The Stanford Daily
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