Journal

The Double Life: Music and Code

YoYo Sitar

This opening chapter frames two early currents in the life of Yoav Fekete: music and code, and the first journey to India that set the path toward the sitar.

Yoav playing cello as a child.
Yoav with a guitar as a teenager.

Cello at nine. Guitar at fourteen. The double life started early.

The Double Life: Music and Code

At nine, I played cello. At fourteen, I picked up a guitar and started writing code, both in the same year, and I never stopped doing either. By fifteen, I was programming and playing music with equal obsession, two parallel tracks running through my life that did not seem to have anything to do with each other.

Then, at twenty-one, I went to India. And everything that came after, the protest songs, the Supreme Court case, the new genre, the new instrument, began with what happened there.