I’ve had this dream for the past two years to study music composition in Germany. This summer, I went to Darmstadt and Berlin to see if such a thought had any sanity or grounding to it. Over there, I discovered an unforeseen appreciation for the parts of me that were not unique. For a short radio segment I asked composer Ling-Hsuan Huang to describe contemporary music in three words. Her response was, “Personal, Bold, and Child-like.” I spent two weeks at the Darmstadt Ferien