My pronouns are they/them, and I'm a composer, music producer, sound designer, and audio engineer from San Francisco, CA.

From a young age I played piano competitively, but later in life I discovered that... well, synthesizers have keys too. The first piece of music I ever wrote was a theme for a character in a cyberpunk Ghibli home brew Dungeons & Dragons campaign, and since then I've been producing all sorts of immersive and experimental sonic stories.

I originally studied computer science and worked as a software engineer until I decided that audio was more my calling in life. After a decade-long career in tech, I went back to school to study music production, sound engineering, and game audio at Pyramind Music & Audio Production Institute.

You can find my work under the moniker Ariyassa on all the socials.