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Shine templecitizen 12 views Shine is an original rockband-style composition. It is made with Garageband with various plug-ins. Picture taken by myself, it is Yosemite Falls in California, USA. For be...
Epik templecitizen 66 views Epik is an original Hollywood-style composition. It is made with Ableton Live with various plug-ins. Most pictures were taken from stock.xchng, a few from Google image. ...
Episode 12: Chat Vert templecitizen 42 views The storyline so far: welcome to Malau and Singsingb's cemetery! Chat Vert is an original electronic rock composition done in Apple Garageband. It has a sci-fi like sou...
Episode 11: Hapbirt templecitizen 61 views The storyline so far: Malau and Singsingb celebrating their birthdays on the show. Hapbirt is an original new age composition done on Ableton Live. It sounds like a th...
Offspring templecitizen 70 views Dedicated to my grandmother.
Episode 10: Love is in the Air templecitizen 146 views The storyline so far: Malau and Singsingb are flying in the sky, where they had the most fascinating experience EVER. About the song: "Love is in the Air" is an ambient...
Mystic Stream templecitizen 372 views Mystic Stream is an original orchestral composition. It is basically the orchestrated version of a previous piano composition, "Ten", which you can listen to here:http://ww...
Vatchoi templecitizen 93 views Hey all, it was actually Chinese new year last weekend (also Valentine's weekend), so I strived to make a Chinese sounding composition which turned out to be a hip hop beat...
Episode 9: Kan you hear me??? templecitizen 117 views The storyline so far: meanwhile, Malau is somewhere else, but undoubtedly high on coffee like Singsingb...and he has his own weird adventure. original alternative rock c...
Episode 8: Questquecest templecitizen 82 views The storyline so far: Singsingb had a lot of coffee at the tribal elder's expense, and now he doesn't know where he is or what he is doing anymore... original trance com...

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templecitizen

Latest Activity

Aug 16, 2011

Date Joined

May 7, 2006

About this user

My name is Gary, I am a 22-year-old musician residing in Los Angeles.

I do improvisations, compositions, transcriptions and covers. I compose in most genres, from pop to experimental, from sound design to rock, from classical to electronic, and so on. Therefore, you will probably find something you like from my videos (hence the channel title).

There are mainly 3 categories on my page: improvisations, compositions, and covers.
I am best at improvising because it's easy, at least to me. Though I haven't done it in awhile because I actually like composing more now.
Composing is my favorite out of the three categories, because I get to put everything together and I can fix mistakes easily lol. In all seriousness though, composing is a form of art creation and may take up a lot of time, depending on the complexity of the piece. It is also an expression from the composer to the audience.
Covers is my least favorite category. I have perfect pitch so I can transcribe or arrange most songs easily but I don't like playing other people's songs, usually. But I have to be honest, people like covers the most, and that's the reason why I still make them from time to time.

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Please do not ask me to subscribe you. If I like your videos, I will subscribe automatically. Likewise, I'll never ask anybody to subscribe me, you may subscribe if you like what I am doing so far.

New to this channel? I would recommend listening to "Hapbirt", "Mystic Stream", or "Invaders" first because they are my favorite.

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My typical recording gears:
Hardware -
Apple macbook
Novation x-station 25 (best budget studio equipment available)
Korg microx
Alesis Fusion 6HD
Audix OM2 dynamic microphone
vintage Execufone microphone with no model number
Blue snowball USB mic
Roland Mobile Cube

Software -
Ableton Live 8
Apple Garageband with various 3rd party plugins
Apple symphony orchestra and remix tools jampack
Apple Imovie

My links:
facebook http://www.facebook.com/cheungaryk
twitter
http://www.twitter.com/templecitizen
soundcloud
http://www.soundcloud.com/cheungaryk

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United States

Schools

University of California at Irvine alumni

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