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To celebrate 12,000 views on the latest music video, the entire orchestral score plus parts are now made available to download for free! Find out more below, and thank you for your support!
This score is free to download and distribute for non-profit purposes.
Notice regarding the score being used in performances, recordings, arrangements, or other projects can be directed to shawnxgmusic@gmail.com
Thank you to everyone who came out to support our Calgary debut! We were very fortunate to have such a hyped up and energetic crowd! I brought Nicholas Yee and Mingmei Xu to Calgary as Orbis to perform at Otafest 2018 which is also the Anime convention's 20th anniversary. Next stop, Animethon!
The full score for my orchestral arrangement Destiny 2 and Final Fantasy XV is now available free to download! You can find them in the Sheet Music page or click on the links below:
Hope you guys enjoy the early Christmas Present!
Just wrapped up a show for University of Alberta doners at the McTaggart home. Playing with Anthony Kha and Mitchel Rees.
This weekend marked a special occasion for me, as it was the first time I sat up on a panel at the Edmonton Expo Convention, as well as the first time I did a panel with a film production company. Alpacalypse Productions commissioned me to compose music for their short film "Elsa vs Zuko" starring Skylar Radzion and Daniel Fong as a part of their video series "The Edge". As such, I was asked to join their panel at Edmonton Expo to talk about my part in the short film. It was an amazing experience and it was so great to meet their fans!
The rest of the convention was great as well, but there definitely was an overtone of Star Wars throughout the entire convention.
Last weekend was a day filled with fun and excitement at the 23rd Animethon convention in Edmonton, AB Canada. From Thursday to Sunday, I attended the convention with the awesome staffs, media, and industry personnel.
Saturday was the Take The Stage talent show preliminaries that I was judging in and Sunday was the big day where Orbis Orchestra returned to Animethon to perform backed by popular demand.
The Orbis concert was met with the same amount of excitement and hype that you would expect from the amazing attendees of Animethon. It was surreal to enter as an orchestra and have people cheering and screaming throughout the show and to be treated almost like rock stars. We featured our last year's awesome guests Vicky and Rochelle to sing with us, and the addition of having cosplayers on stage and being able to take a group photo with a number of our lovely audience, made this concert certainly one to remember.
After the orchestra concert was a tight panel schedule half an hour later which was judging the Take The Stage Talent Show finals. All the contestants this year gave a strong effort in performance full of surprises, energy. Congrats to all the contestants as well as the winners! Hope to see everyone next year!
Take The Stage Finalists
Just finished a tour with the UofA Symphonic Wind Ensemble to Chicago, Illinois. The trip took place from March 9 till March 13 and performing at the famous and breathtakingly beautiful Chicago Symphony Center, home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Thank you to the people of Chicago for making the performance a success!
The tour was an overall amazing experience! Chicago is a wonderful city full of wonderful culture, people, and amazing food.
The Edmonton Concept Pop Orchestra (temporary name) has made its debut performance (as well as my debut performance in conducting) at Animethon, Edmonton's annual anime convention. The performance was absolutely breathtaking, we had a turnout of hundreds of the most loud, hyped, excited, and passionate audience the members of the orchestra, including myself has had the pleasure of performing for. Thank you Animethon for having us!
This orchestra has been a dream of mine to put together, though I never found the right reason to start it, so when Vicky Lau from Animethon proposed the idea to me, I immediately took it up. It took us 4 months in total to put together our members and rehearse. All the music was arranged and orchestrated by our guitarist Geoff Li and myself from scratch. Our sets included video game and anime music such as Pokemon, Final Fantasy, Cowboy Bebop, Legend of Zelda, Sailor Moon, RWBY, and none other than the extraordinary work of Joe Hisaishi from the Studio Ghibli movies. Our orchestra members worked extremely hard for this show, and we all agreed all the hard work has certainly paid off. Stay tuned for more news from the orchestra!
PS. Video of the concert will be coming soon!
I am very excited and pleased to announce that I have officially begun working on a new original composition album!
It's been around...4 years (?) since I released my previous and first ever original album Diamond Wings and like any artist, as the years of practicing, progress, and improvements as a musician went on, that album now feels no longer good enough to be my one and only album repertoire. For those of you who has stuck around with me for a long time, I said after the release of Diamond Wings that I will not make a new album until I get better as a composer and musician, as that album reflected my best writing at the time. Despite that, the album sold way better than I thought.
That was way more than I could wrap my head around, and for that I want to give a super super warm thank you to everyone who have purchased the album both physically and on iTunes. Your support means so much to me and I am so grateful that you guys enjoyed it based on the feedback I received.
For those of you who did not get your hands on it (I know a lot of you didn't because you guys told me you were too young to have a credit card XD) I hope you will really enjoy and appreciate this one! As I feel it will be a huge improvement from my works from 4 years ago.
So here's a little overview of what to expect from the new album!
So when will the album be released? No set date yet, since it's in the compositional stage right now, and I'm balancing writing and University as well. I will however be keeping you guys updated on the progress of the album.
There's always that time of year that I celebrate every 1000 subscriber mark. To think it took me almost 2 years to get me my first 1000 subscriber and all the years that have passed...it's pretty crazy...but I can never help but feel grateful every time I get an e-mail telling me that somebody have subscribed to me. I love to make music and produce music more than anything, and I am so glad that I have OVER 9000 (I'll stop that reference now) of you to share my passion with me. I feel so blessed to have you guys watch, like, and share my random and weird videos!
Happy Spring Everyone!! 8DDD from Canada.
I feel this would be a good time to leak some upcoming things that I've been...or...going to be up to.
Those are all the major things that I got in store for you guys.
Again, thank you all so much. To the new subscribers, thank you for liking my works, and to the old subscribers, I love you guys so much and thank you so much for sticking with me all this time.
Thank you my wonderful subbies <3, stick around for more songs and videos to come!
Let's aim for 10,000!! :DDD
Shawn
So, this weekend I wrapped up Heritage Days. 3 days of doing MC, sound technician, and performing between 2 pavilions really wore me down. Fortunately, the business isn't finished yet. This weekend, I will be at the 20th Animethon on Saturday and Sunday to judge the karaoke competition with two of my musician buddies Yan and Kat. On top of that, on Sunday, I will also be participating in the local Carribean festival (Cariwest) and performing some insanely hype reggae and soca music at Churchill Square. Do come out and check out these 2 major local events! It will be really exciting! :)
