I wish for a parallel career in music-making as well as in music studies. Performance and everything revolving around it are what I primarily strive for, but academia is almost as important and I believe I could bring a useful contribution to human sciences. Unfortunately, it is under everybody’s eyes that both these areas of employment are heavily struggling.

The ways of art-making (including also other forms than music) have been changing a lot and change more all the time. Incomes are concentrating in the hands of a few major labels and emerging artists have really hard time trying to survive on the music market. Even though it might not sound very ‘democratic’ nor realistic, I’d prefer a smaller choice and quantity of music material but with a higher quality and with more protection on emerging artists’ rights. The same goes also for the academic world; I'd probably like to see the existing resources shared to quantitatively less but qualitatively top notch research that was modern, meaningful, scientifically accurate and meritocratic.

What I wish for myself is the possibility of making original music with one or more bands and working in the academia when I'm not on tour or in the recording studio. Sounds like a pretty busy life, but why shouldn't one dream big?