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Svigaris graduated with his bachelor\u2019s in May of 2024, and now a month later he has already embarked on his grad journey, without taking a semester off. Although he doesn\u2019t plan on enrolling in all of the programs at once\u2014this summer he begins taking courses for his Master of Arts in Songwriting<\/a> degree\u2014you get the sense when speaking with Svigaris that this 23-year-old doesn\u2019t like to sit still for too long. Accordingly, he is in his car when doing the interview for this article. \u201cYou never should stop learning,\u201d says Svigaris, driving from one of his two jobs back to his house. \u201cYou always should learn because if you\u2019re going to stop learning, that\u2019s it.\u201d His first job, he says, is a family business that involves manufacturing heat transfers, working with businesses like Nike, Adidas, Lululemon, and more. The second business is his own and involves selling point-of-sale programming systems in his home country of Lithuania. \u201cPeople call me workaholic,\u201d he says. \u201cI cannot stop. I work 24\/7. Last night I got two calls at five in the morning and I answered them just to help the client. I just like it. It\u2019s the momentum, and it\u2019s the same thing with Berklee.\u201d Svigaris hasn\u2019t taken a break from music since he began learning at the age of seven at the esteemed National M. K. \u010ciurlionis School of Art<\/a>, where he says he learned his discipline and love for putting in the time. \u201cIt\u2019s a classical musical school,\u201d he says, \u201cand you start school from eight in the morning and you finish eight at night. It was like an all-the-time schedule. \u2026 Berklee is a little bit simpler for me.\u201d Whether it\u2019s simpler or not, one part of the Berklee Online experience that Svigaris has definitely seemed to appreciate is the way the instructors deliver feedback. \u201cWhat I noticed when I come to Berklee Online, and maybe this is coming from the American people, but you always start with the good stuff,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the instructor will say, \u2018you did a really good job,\u2019 which \u2018oh, okay, fine, I did a good job, thank God!\u2019 but there\u2019s still that \u2018but.\u2019 But the first sentence gets you excited and \u2018okay, I am something, I can do something!\u2019 Because in Europe the teachers are always starting from, \u2018you did that wrong,\u2019 not what you did good. And that change of perspective in America really changed how I feel about all the learning.\u201d You might think the workaholic lifestyle Svigaris alludes to would drive him to compose complicated pieces of music with complex counterpoint that careens forth at furious tempos, but it\u2019s the exact opposite. Within his recordings\u2014both those that he has composed and those he has produced\u2014there is a common thread of contemplative tranquility. Even the cover art for his releases evokes a meditative mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He says that\u2019s because he likes to listen to his own songs while he works, and encourages his listeners to use his music for the same purpose. \u201cI think it\u2019s coming from when you work, you want peaceful music, to listen to peaceful music because there\u2019s a lot of stuff happening on the computer in the programming end of the business,\u201d he says. \u201cThere\u2019s a big object which you need to understand, and I think that music helps me to progress more in work. That’s why I create this.\u201d
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