Under the name of Mr. Glitch, he is a member of Austin-based Ready for Japan and New York based AP/DP. Samuel has a Masters in Music from the University of Texas at Austin where he studied with Russell Pinkston and this past year pursued a second masters at BEAST in the UK. Samuel has just begun his doctoral studies at Columbia University. During the summers, he is a faculty member at the Walden School, a summer music camp for young composers in Dublin, New Hampshire.