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PROVIDED
"Somebody's Darling" will open for "Quiet Company" at the Grand Stafford in Bryan on Friday.
Former student balances career
with dream of managing music
Engineering students
tasked with finding
Internet of things’
PROVIDED
The Aggies Invent challenge will take place in the Engineering
Innovation Center on Friday.
By Jack Riewe
Is. Austin Hill, Class of 2007, is a
lawyer by day and a band man
ager by night.
Hill is the manager of the Dallas
band “Somebody’s Darling,” which
will be playing in Bryan on Friday.
Hill has wanted to break into the
music industry for some time, wait
ing for the opportunity to present
itself.
When the former manager got a
job at a venue in Dallas in February
and became too busy to continue,
Hill, who had been already helping
with the band, said he was eager to
step in and help his friends.
Hill said after witnessing a record
ing session, he went home to write
a letter to the band to express how
much he wanted to help them.
“You know, I never really got to
do something like that before, sit in
the control room and kind of watch
them,” Hill said. “You know, it was
just so inspiring to watch how hard
they were working. It wasn’t like
they were partying in the studio or
anything like that.”
Guitarist and longtime friend Da
vid Ponder said he had met Hill on
a golf course in high school and has
been friends ever since.
“I believe our first conversation
was about music,” Ponder said. “We
were commenting about something
that was on the radio, I forgot what
the exact song was, but ever since
then we’ve been talking about mu
sic.”
Ponder said he always goes to Hill
for advice about his music and has
always been interested in what Hill
has to say.
“I would sing him tunes that I
had written for ‘Somebody’s Dar
ling,”’ Ponder said. “I would show
him recordings of stuff before it was
released or before it was completed.”
Since Hill’s involvement with the
band has increased, it has recorded
its third studio album, played in the
Dallas area regularly and booked
more than 100 dates this year, in
cluding a recent trip to CMJ Music
Marathon in New York City.
Like Hill, other members of the
band have day jobs as well. Ponder
and keyboardist Mike Tally both
give music lessons, drummer Nate
Wedan and bassist Wade Gofer play
in other bands and lead singer Amber
Farris is a carpenter.
“Amber was doing an interview
the other day, and she told someone
she’d often hear their song on the
radio on the way to work,” Hill said.
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Hill also manages several bands
based in Houston, although he
doesn’t receive any income outside
of his lawyer career.
Even though the pay isn’t great,
members of the band continue to
do what they love most about mu
sic, which is playing in front of an
audience.
“I think for everyone in the band,
performing for people is like a drug,”
Ponder said. “You only get it when
you perform for people.”
Having graduated from A&M,
Hill decided to bring Somebody’s
Darlings energetic shows to his for
mer alma mater.
“I think Aggies will dig it. It’s got
a lot of different stuff in there. It’s
bluesy, it’s got country elements, it’s
just good ol’ rock and roll,” Hill said.
Somebody’s Darling has played
in College Station before, as Ponder
said they’ve always had a good time
here.”
Lead singer Amber Farris said
playing for a college group is differ
ent because there’s an age difference.
“I feel like they’re a little more
into the music, a little more passion
ate about it,” Farris said.
Somebody’s Darling will open for
Quiet Company Friday night at the
Grand Stafford in Downtown Bryan.
By Teja Kondapalli
N. Nearly 80 Aggie engineers
eagerly await the weekend as
they prepare to take on real world
challenges and make the “Internet
of things” come alive.
The third Aggies Invent chal
lenge will kick off Friday at the
Engineering Innovation Center,
where multidisciplinary teams of
undergraduate and graduate engi
neering students push their inno
vative skills and compete for the
best solution to several industry
sponsors’ need statements. Past
challenges have resulted in several
successful designs — one team in
the 2014 challenge got a provi
sional patent for their device.
The theme this time is “making
the Internet of things come alive,”
where challenges arise from the
pervasive interconnectedness of
everyday objects.
James Wilson, the facility man
ager at the Engineering Innovation
Center, said the event is a 48-hour
maker-hackathon.
“Students are going to be given
need statements from various ven
dors and industry representatives
and they are required to build a
certain device to fulfil their need
statements,” Wilson said. “We
will supply them the parts neces
sary and the know-how.”
Wilson said the third iteration
of the event hopes to build on last
year’s success.
“Last year, we had 70 partici
pants and one of the teams actu
ally got a provisional patent on
their device,” Wilson said. “This
year the demand was even higher.
We got a little over 250 applica
tions out of which we selected 80
people, and we have 74 of them
showing up for the actual event.”
Ryan Gates, computer science
junior and Aggies Invent partici
pant, spoke about his preparation
for the event.
“I am doing research into net
work monitoring — passively
and intrusively in order to tack
le a problem given to us by the
United States Air force,” Gates
said. “They needed a solution to
help people secure their home
network against outside intruders.
As homes are becoming more in
terconnected, all our devices like
the smartphone, TV, et cetera are
connected to a network, which
is in turn connected to the open
Internet. So a lot of people are
worried about potential intrud
ers with a malicious intent who
could siphon tons of data off this
network.”
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