Advanced training in the music industry competed! Thank you, BIME, for selecting me as one of the recipients for the BIME Campus Scholarship in Spain. This experience enriched my perspective on the future of the music industry and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead. It was a complete honor to attend it with my fellow peers. After spending these days with them, I have no doubts we all have bright futures ahead of us.

I received this scholarship alongside Laura Lopez Fernandez after solving a challenge published by BIME with our proposal, “Dario Colectivo.” This is a self-sustained platform that focuses on creating connections between artists and fans, using the creative process as the central axis for that connection. Our goal was to reinvent what “the fanbase” means while abolishing the power struggles and dynamics that alienate us from each other.

I’m not going to lie. During the past 5 years I’ve been actively making music, most of the time I’ve felt like a complete outsider. It was not a feeling I was expecting or was planning to have to fight when I started. Music has been an extremely important and central theme in my life. I live through it, always have, and probably always will. It’s been a way to cope, organize memories, and survive. It’s such a powerful force.

Like many current emerging artists, I took the leap to make music during the pandemic. The year after it hit, I had been working on a podcast about pop music called POPCPR. I was the one who edited the podcast, using Garageband. I gained basic audio production skills while doing this. When lockdown started, I saw the opportunity to start making my own music.

Since then, creating the music has been one of my greatest joys. But putting it out—that has been a challenge. I must admit that I have not made it easier for me. I could have simply started hanging out with the musical “insiders,” focused my efforts on making “viral music,” or producing music in “the style” of what is popular now. But that would not have been true to myself or the music I am making.

I chose the “harder path,” but at least I can proudly say that it’s mine. I know and can retrace every step (and misstep) I’ve taken. I can own it all because I’ve paved the path with intention and purpose. It’s the reason I keep doing it today. I want to spare others from the annoying moist of ridicule, external doubt, and alienation that comes from the social power dynamics in music circles.

That is why my main purpose with my musical project GEYTER is to make outsiders of the electronic music scene feel stimulated through innovative sound design and storytelling. I am capable of rescuing what I personally consider rich and powerful from electronic music and serving it to others for what it’s been to me: a way of healing and self-discovery.

I create experimental electronic dance music

to make outsiders of the EDM scene feel stimulated through innovative sound design and storytelling.

In a world that is changing at an exponential rate, a big question we all had was “what is going to happen to human creativity.” After my experience at BIME, attending various keynotes from high members of the music industry, I’ve come to the conclusion that there isn't a simple answer, but there are common themes and patterns: authenticity and unity. We are most powerful when we work together and when we are true to ourselves, not when we are wasting our creativity feeding unbalanced social structures and trends controlled by tech corporations.

There is a lot coming, and this is one of the most important times in history where human creativity will be held to the test. At the same time, we are being dragged into a reality where our reach and exposure are controlled by algorithmic creation, trends, and online “hype” owned by a forming tech oligarchy. From my first time being an "insider" in the music industry, I can confidently advise any music maker reading this to do the following: fight the algorithm, create things only you can create, and form a community with your project. That is how we win.

Creativity is a force that never sleeps —
it’s waiting for you to wake it up.

The tools are simple: a pen, a piece of paper, and your will to create.

It’s time to stop waiting for permission.
It’s time to get RESTLESS.