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He had been playing drums in a surf-rock band in San Francisco, and working full-time as a senior technical account manager at Coursera, a company that provides thousands of free open online courses. He had taken upwards of 20 courses, but when he began studying the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/learn\/technology-of-music-production?specialization=music-production\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Technology of Music Production<\/a><\/em> course that Coursera offers through Berklee Online, he saw another path.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Technology of Music Production: Propagation | Beginner | Berklee Online\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6IcygfWwMl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><strong>Loudon Stearns\u2019 \u2018Technology of Music Production\u2019 course was a wake-up call for Brandon Iljas.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe band was coming to an end, essentially,\u201d he recalls about Sunhaze, the four-piece he had drummed with for nearly a decade. \u201cWe had a couple of members that were leaving, so I was just thinking, \u2018I love music so much,\u2019 and I wanted to figure out what the next step would look like. I had come of age playing with Garageband and things like that, but really didn\u2019t understand how far the technology had come and how democratized it is now that you can just produce pop songs out of your bedroom.\u201d&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And producing pop songs out of his bedroom is exactly what Brandon began to do. After enrolling in the music production courses that Coursera offers through Berklee, he started working with singer\/songwriter Amira Elfeky. The hard work is already starting to pay off, with Amira recently landing a coveted spot on Spotify\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6Z4kwq0LOaYQW2CqudoOIk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Fresh Finds<\/a><\/em> playlist.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brandon also recruited Sunhaze singer Danae Labra\u00f1a to start a new project with him. The pair traded in surf riffs for retro synths, and called their new collaboration OVRGRWN, releasing their debut full-length, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/34KL4zc2PZJNJjSCoJeUfJ?si=9e_y3jl3Tq6V3kbjqtkYsA&amp;dl_branch=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">O Well<\/a><\/em>, last year, in addition to a number of stellar singles on the FiXT Neon label.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/takenote\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/0022785795_10.jpg\" alt=\"The musical duo OVRGRWN is pictured here.\" class=\"wp-image-16741\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><br><strong>Danae Labra\u00f1a and Brandon Iljas are OVRGRWN. \u201cI wanted something that could be identifiable and wasn\u2019t an entity that was already out there,\u201d says Iljas of the name.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He says working full-time and playing so much music led him to feel like he was burning the candle at both ends.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere were nights where I had this musical idea, and for me it was like getting addicted to trying to get it across the finish line or trying to get the song in a state that I liked,\u201d he says, \u201cand then it would turn into my midnight bedtime, and then hours and hours beyond.\u201d<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the morning he would usually catch up on sleep on his 90-minute train commute, but on the commute home he would watch more of the Berklee Online videos from Coursera. He finally gave notice at Coursera last month and is setting his sights on a full-time career in music, continuing to record with Amira Elfeky and hoping to book a tour with OVRGRWN soon.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/online.berklee.edu\/music-production?pid=8023&amp;utm_source=takenote&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=bol-gen-takenote-article-promotion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"STUDY MUSIC PRODUCTION WITH BERKLEE ONLINE! (opens in a new tab)\">STUDY MUSIC PRODUCTION WITH BERKLEE ONLINE!<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019d be remiss if we here at Berklee Online didn\u2019t at least offer an apology to Coursera for playing some part in influencing one of their star employees to quit, but Brandon says they\u2019re okay with it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI gave notice in July and my last day is September 10th, so it\u2019s not like I\u2019m just rushing off,\u201d he says. 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