@thegibson it's very easy to fail in music tech. Admittedly, the stakes aren't as big compared to other fields. But they are still failures.

I was on a team that developed one of the first musical instruments for the Leap Motion. It was in collaboration with the music artist BT, and they had a ton of promotion for it. Thing collapsed under it's own weight. It was terribly built. It never worked.

Speaking of things not working, there was the time I tried to use an OSC controlled instrument I built using WiFi on stage as an opening act featuring Nona Hendryx. It didn't work at all, and I had to stand onstage pretending to perform like an idiot for 20 minutes. I've never felt so helpless and humiliated onstage as a musician. I've sworn off OSC entirely since then.

Then there was the music tech startup I co-founded. It's truly amazing how little got accomplished in such a long period of time...