Roopam Garg

In 2015, Garg enrolled at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. It was in Berklee where he began his project The Surrealist, initially as an experimental metal project. He released his debut single Self Spiral leading up to an EP titled "Naked Awareness", followed by three singles in 2017 "Origami", "Lux", and "Echo End". He graduated from Berklee in 2018, with a Bachelor of Music degree. Garg also received the 2018 Berklee Performance-Division Guitar Scholarship Award. In 2018, shortly after graduating, Garg performed at the UK Tech- Fest 2018 and Dissonance Festival 2018. Later that year, he endorsed Kiesel Guitars a guitar company initiated by Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders, and shortly after, endorsed Fishman Pickups as well. He also shifted his focus from progressive metal-based works, feeling progressive metal to be a "sterile environment" that "seeks perfection", to releasing darker, more ambient-based works, feeling it was "more liberating as a composer", describing ambient music to be a "blank canvas where anything goes". ==Influences==

Garg credits film scores such as those of Angelo Milli, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow, as a significant influence on his work, stating how "good film scores are able to bring out anxiety, hope or depression within the characters, without which the film would be devoid of human connection". His favored bands and musicians include Animals As Leaders, Meshuggah, Taylor Deupree, Nils Frahm, Jon Hopkins, CUTS, and Mark Pritchard.{{cite web|url=https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/the-surrealists-roopam-garg-whats-on-my-playlist|title= The Surrealist's Roopam Garg: What's on My Playlist ==Discography==

The Surrealist EPs • Naked Awareness (2016) Singles • "Self Spiral" (2016) • "Origami" (2017) • "Lux" (2017) • "Echo End" (2017) • "Mira" (2018) • "Walking Stick Enigma" (2019) • "Terminal" (2019) • "Kaleido" (2019) • "Arcadia" (2019) • "A Repeated Flow From Beauty To Higher Beauty" (2019) • "origami" (2020) • "The Flowering of Human Consciousness" (2022) • "Hurricane" (2023) • "Cells" (2023) • "Escape" (2024) • "Ex Machina" (2024) • "Perfect Organism" (2024) == See also ==