The following is taken from Liyaan Maskati's interview of Mark Seto for the Brown Daily Herald [full story here]:

At the beginning of Asha Tamirisa’s time at Oberlin College and Conservatory, she anticipated, given her love of historical musicology, that she’d spend her undergraduate years pursuing a degree in ethnomusicology. However, when she started going to experimental music shows with friends from the computer music department (TIMARA), she began to fall in love with a genre that, prior to college, she had never known existed. Soon after, she, too, began taking classes in TIMARA, fundamentally changing the way that she would design the rest of her degree.