My name is Matthew Rodriguez and I've been making art since 2008. I started with making electronic music with handheld electronics in 2008 while in college and have been active in writing and performing music. I did my first official performance as my stage name, Star Fighter Dreams, in 2013 in Austin, TX and have been performing regularly since then. I have performed in New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore at events and festivals celebrating chiptune and I currently aim to head to the west coast to perform as well. In 2021, I decided to experiment with doing live visuals due to the fact that I felt the city was lacking in projections during artist performances. I have been working with Rick Lara and his PLUGG:ED event series since 2021 providing live visuals under the  artist name Screen Tears for the events around town.