Last Sunday, June 12th, I had a took on a job to do a live recording of a unique and diverse performance in the Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall for conductor Nick Smith of the Peking Sinfonietta and International Festival Choir, with guests on Percussion Claviers de Lyon from France. The gamut of instruments was […]
Live recording of DAO in the Beijing Forbidden City Hall Read More »
I blogged recently about the construction of a new studio in Beijing after an electrical fire destroyed the building my first studio here was in. I didn\’t think it would take so long to get it done properly as I hired the best I could find to do it. But the standards I aspire to
Last December, I completed arranging, programming, production and engineering for a song by Chinese artist Cheng Lin. The song is about preservation of the environment, as we have \’Only One Earth\’. It was reworked from an old version in partnership with Green China, an organization recognizing philanthropy relating to preservation of the environment in China
Cheng Lin receives Green China award for our song ‘Only One Earth’ Read More »
Since I had to abandon my first studio in Beijing due to the building being damaged from electrical fire, I\’ve had to build a new studio. I\’ve chosen the location where I originally planned to set up the studio when I first decided to open one in Beijing, Real Life at Hegezhuang village. It\’s an
Despite my lack of updates, I\’ve actually been quite busy here since living in Beijing China. I\’ve been working on some cool projects, one of the most interesting being Mikey Dee and Miss Melody\’s fusion of western downtempo electronic with poetic traditional Chinese folk music. The two shouldn\’t work well together, yet under the moniker
Chinese folk meets electronic music, latest production Read More »
I haven\’t written a blog for some time as our lives were thrown into chaos early December when an electrical fire forced us out of our home. Then numerous hacker attacks crippled my website making it hard to post much. Things have been rough for us in China since we decided to come here. But
I\’ve haven\’t been able to blog much lately, even though I\’ve never actually had so much to blog about… That\’s because even the simplest things seem to take so long in China and eat up a lot of your time. Every day here in Beijing I see something that would blow your mind and often
I\’ve seen a lot of crazy stuff in China, but this is the best one so far: Would you eat at this restaurant?
I\’ve been living in Beijing for over a month now, trying to figure out how to blog about all that has happened here and what a dramatic shift it\’s been living in China. There is simply too much to write about and not enough time! So I\’ll simply share that we\’ve moved into our new
open house for new music production and sound studio in Beijing Read More »
Yes you read that correctly! In about two months will be moving to Beijing, China where, as anyone who\’s been following my blog knows, I\’ve been doing a lot of music production work lately. I can barely believe it myself. it started with the production of the talented Elika Mahony\’s fire and gold album which
Yes you read that correctly!In about two months will be moving to Beijing, China where, as anyone who’s been following my blog knows, I’ve been doing a lot of music production work lately.I can barely believe it myself. it started with the production of the talented Elika Mahony’s fire and gold album which eventually brought me to Beijing,
Last year, i had the pleasure of working on quite an incredible Chinese project with the renowned Beijing artist Jin R (pronounced Jing R).It has recently been released in China, it’s called ‘T. Journey’ Jin R is a known world class Chinese chef, restaurant owner, and sublime improvisational Yang Qin performer and artist. Best known for her Hong Kong