CG Music
CG Music production studio

About

This is CG.

Producer. Songwriter. Mixing Engineer. Musician.

I'm a London-based producer and songwriter specialising in modern pop, electronic music and K-pop. But production wasn't where I started.

My background spans years of musicianship and performance, specialist music education, studio and audio technology training, teaching, and eventually building CG Music into the place where all of those things came together.

01 — The beginning

Music came first.

I started with singing and violin, before taking up piano at 12 and drums at 14. Singing, violin and piano became my main instruments alongside years of formal training and performance.

I spent six years with the National Youth Choir, performed at venues including the Royal Albert Hall and Symphony Hall, and reached Grade 8 in singing. Long before production, I was learning music through performing, studying and playing it.

Then lockdown introduced me to a completely different side of music.

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6 yearsNational Youth Choir
Voice • Violin • PianoMain instruments

02 — A different way in

Discovering
production.

During lockdown, I started teaching myself music production through online FL Studio courses. I was learning everything from scratch — how to use a DAW, build tracks, work with different sounds and understand the basics of mixing.

I later studied singing, piano and Music Technology at The Purcell School for Young Musicians. Over two years, I became much more hands-on with production, learning about studio equipment, microphone techniques, recording, studio management, DAW production and the development of music technology.

That's where producing went from something I'd picked up during lockdown to the part of music I wanted to pursue seriously.

Studio equipment at CG Music

Performance → Production

03 — Formal training

Understanding the
technology behind
the music.

I continued that path at Birmingham City University and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with a BSc (Hons) Music Technology (2:1).

My degree took production, recording and digital audio much further, while also covering acoustics, reverberation, room treatment and the technical behaviour of sound. I worked with technologies including MATLAB and Max/MSP, giving me experience with both the creative and computational sides of audio.

That knowledge still shapes the way I produce. I'm interested not only in whether something sounds right, but why it sounds right and how I can manipulate it creatively.

Technical foundation

Logic Pro

Primary DAW

Ableton Live / Pro Tools

Additional experience

Studio

Recording • Microphone Technique • Studio Practice

Production

Synthesis • Sampling • Sound Design • Digital Audio

Audio Technology

Acoustics • MATLAB • Max/MSP

04 — Producing in public

Building
CG Music.

After university, I put my focus into becoming a better producer and building CG Music. At one stage I challenged myself to work on a new song every day, sharing the process on TikTok and forcing myself to produce faster, trust my instincts and experiment outside the styles I already knew.

One of those experiments became my Blind Production series: taking isolated vocals from songs I'd never heard and building completely new productions around them.

The concept gained traction particularly through K-pop, helping CG Music grow to the audience and view figures displayed on the homepage. Productions including KATSEYE's Pinky Up and aespa's Supernova became some of the biggest examples of the series.

What started as a content idea eventually introduced me to the genre that would become my main production focus.

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60K+Social audience
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3M+Likes

05 — A creative specialism

Falling into
K-pop.

The more K-pop I produced, the more I became interested in the freedom of the genre. It gave me room to combine musicianship, electronic production, sound design and songwriting without staying inside one style — moving between pop, hip-hop, R&B, house, trap and EDM depending on what the song needed.

After creating Blind Productions and alternate intros, I wanted to move beyond reimagining existing songs and learn how music is actually developed for K-pop artists and label briefs.

That led me to UMSIC's K-pop programme and song camp.

06 — Professional K-pop training

Training for
the real briefs.

Over six weeks with UMSIC, I worked from K-pop briefs based on real label leads alongside masterclasses, collaborations, production work and toplining.

From hundreds of participants, I was placed in the A group — the programme's highest-performing ability group — while developing my production, songwriting and toplining with feedback and guidance from professional K-pop producers and topliners.

It taught me to think beyond simply making a good song. I had to understand the artist, brief, references, concept, vocal identity and what the label was looking for, while still bringing my own ideas to the record.

That approach is now a major part of how I produce K-pop.

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07 — Practical experience

Taking it into
real projects.

Alongside my own music, I've worked directly with artists across recording, production and mixing.

For Hannah Mokhtari's A Little Practice, I travelled to Leeds for a multitrack studio session recording drums, piano, bass, guitar and vocals before working collaboratively on the final mix. I've also worked on vocal recording and production and taken on independent production and mixing work through CG Music.

My experience outside the DAW includes A&R research, publishing rights, sample clearance, artist and label research, studio bookings and recording support. From February to July, I also taught A-Level Music Technology, covering areas including production, synthesis, sampling and sequencing.

Teaching gave me another perspective on the technical knowledge I'd developed — understanding it well enough not only to use it, but to explain it.

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At a glance

Quick credentials.

Musicianship

  • ABRSM Grade 8 Singing
  • ABRSM Grade 5 Music Theory
  • Voice • Piano • Violin • Drums • Guitar
  • 6 Years — National Youth Choir

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Music Technology — 2:1
  • Birmingham City University / Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
  • The Purcell School for Young Musicians
  • Mastering.com — Reverse Engineer

Production

  • Logic Pro
  • Ableton Live • Pro Tools
  • Recording • Production • Vocal Production • Mixing
  • Synthesis • Sampling • Sound Design

Where that leaves me now

Musicianship ×
Technology ×
Instinct.

CG Music

I'm a musician who became fascinated by technology, a producer who learned to engineer, and a K-pop fan who went on to train for the industry itself.

Those parts of my background aren't separate when I'm making music.

Whether I'm starting with an empty Logic session, producing around a vocal, responding to an artist brief, writing a topline, recording musicians or working through a mix, I'm drawing from the same combination of musicianship, technical understanding and creative instinct.

The goal is always the same: understand what the record needs and find an interesting way to get it there.

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