Sound artist and esteemed film composer Gary Chang worked his way up through the LA studio musician ranks playing with the best musicians in the country - Robbie Robertson, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report, Barbara Streisand and Henry Mancini - later to compose music for many eminent filmmakers (including John Frankenheimer, Jonathan Demme and Stephen King). Few composers have mastered such a wide range of musical genres that Chang has (orchestral, electronic, installation, jazz, soundtrack, dance). He is a protagonist in the field of music synthesis and has recorded on and programmed almost major every hardware and software synthesizer over the last thirty years, built dozens of custom systems, and designed a personal studio that is optimized for recording synthesizers in multi-channel and high-definition audio. Chang won the National Endowment for the Arts Grant for Jazz Composers while attending California Institute of the Arts.