Ben Bloomberg grew up in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he was exposed to a lot of music and developed an early interest in computers and sound.
I grew up in Western Mass, in a town called North Hampton, and in North Hampton, there’s a ton of music. There’s sort of venues – it’s a small town, but you know, a lot of big names would sort of stop-through. And so from when I was really young, you know, my parents would take me to see, you know, all kinds of people, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Bonnie Raitt. Bob Dylan, even stopped in Northampton one time. And so, I grew up, you know, I grew up with a lot of music, and both my parents are sort of musical and then pretty early on, I got interested in computers, probably starting in fourth grade, and sound too, so I started working with PA systems and running sound for local bands and thing like that, and I was – I guess I was only nine so I couldn’t even really lift any of the gear at that point, but I would get really into plugging things in, and –