I was especially intrigued by Mariana’s process for creating music, because technology and sound is something that interests me and something I want to explore as a computer engineering major. The way she invents her own instruments is very cool, and at the start of her talk she was explaining that the difficulty in performing her prepared piano in different venues, and I’m not sure if that’s what made her start creating her own instruments, but I remember her saying that it was something that pushed her to perform her own instruments instead. So I think a lot of creativity can be inspired from necessity.