Just looking around

Nov 2003

Angeles City and Quezon City, Philippines

Sony Music Library, Manila Philharmonic Orchestra, Globalink, Carmel House Studios, FILharmoniKa

http://profiles.friendster.com/3553046

O.B. Montessori Center, Ateneo De Manila University, Berklee College Of Music

Musician

Asosasyon ng Musikong Pilipino, American Federation of Musicians

Music, Golf, Computers. Necessarily in that order.

The Grapes Of Wrath (Steinbeck), Golf My Way (Nicklaus), Principles of Orchestration (Rimsky-Korsakov), The Kama Sutra (I wish I wrote it)

Star Wars, Passage To India, Fantasia/Fantasia 2000, Debbie Does Dallas, and anything with naked women

Jazz, Rock, Classical, anything with complex harmonies and orchestrations, and every note that I make with my colleagues. For those notes, check out www.musikanatin.com

all time favorite is The Incredible Hulk. I watch American Idol because the band is really good.

Libra

I'm boring. There's not much to me other than I
like music, golf, computers, and I love DJ more than I love myself. I'm a terrible piano player, and a disgusting violin player. Music plays in my brain 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I EAT, SLEEP, AND DRINK MUSIC. Vacation means deprivation. I don't consider myself a composer....not even a songwriter (yes there is a difference...personally I feel composers are superior musicians because they arrange the music...but that's just me). Anyone who calls himself an orchestrator IS SUPPOSED TO KNOW HOW TO WRITE AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARD WITH JUST A PENCIL AND REAL PAPER and any other method is a lesser method...and I'll hold on to that opinion as long as I live. You don't choose music, it chooses you. The thing I like best about my job is that I wake up each day, and get to do EXACTLY what it is that I want to do, which is write arrangements, sit in front of my computer all day long, and work with extremely talented people. I love that I can take a day off anytime I like and go play golf. I'm working on a theory which proves that Chick Corea is from a different galaxy. Leonard Bernstein has already proven that himself. I love standing in front of an orchestra and hearing the incredible sounds musicians make together. I love the feeling of pure concept transforming into reality, which is exactly what happens when the first note of a new arrangement is played. I also love 10,000 rpm
SATA drives (wd raptors). They're the best thing since indoor
plumbing. Three long term goals: Raise a family and provide them with a life of dignity and happiness, write a symphony, and lower my handicap to scratch. Medium term goal: help GC4 reach its potential. I have no ambitions of fame or recognition for myself...I do for the Filipino musician. I love dual processors and hyper threading. I love 24-bit, 192khz audio. I laugh when I see my crap is jungle green after I
drink a lot of grape kool aid. See what I mean?

Anyone who's as crazy about orchestration, voicings, counterpoint, counterpoint of counterpoint,striving to exploit the lower-pitched instruments of the orchestra,
golf, soft synths, hard
synths, G5's, Windows XP Pro, Mac OSX, Vienna Symphonic Library, Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra, the four B's (Beethoven, Brahms, Bernstein, Bill Evans), Cubase SX, Finale, Kontakt, Intakt, convolution reverbs,
Gigastudio 3, or Logic Pro
as I am (yes I have met a few). If you're not, then I guess you're still ok. I'm also looking for old friends, classmates, and colleagues.