My name is Abijah Gupta...

Welcome to my online world! I'm a Canadian composer, keyboardist, pianist and music producer who also blogs about tips, tricks, and shortcuts for music production. I'm also passionate about delicious pizza, awesome movies, cool software, and instrumental music.

Education, Volunteering and other co-curricular activities

After completing my high school in India, I graduated with a Diploma in Computing Science and a Bachelors in Business Administration (Major: Human Resources) from Thompson Rivers University (TRU), Canada with an opportunity to do a 16-month CoOp term at Teck Coal Ltd., Calgary. While pursuing my education, I've enjoyed performing at many University and off-campus events including the TRU International Days, TRU In-Service Day, a fundraiser for the Royal Inland Hospital, and even a Christmas concert at Tim Hortons! I also enjoyed being the Sound Director for the TRU Lipdub featuring 250+ cast and crew!

Becoming an instrumentalist

I've always felt that no matter how brilliant the underlying music is, it mostly ends up being overshadowed by the vocals. Hence, being an instrumentalist came somewhat naturally to me. Growing up in India exposed me to a vast variety of musical influences ranging from the classical Harmonium & Tabla to the more modern Piano and Orchestra. Over the years, my productions have greatly improved using tips-and-tricks learnt from trial-and-error and more importantly, persistent practice!

Spiritus: The album that started it all...

In 2013, I bought my first Apple iPad and that was my first exposure to the iOS GarageBand music app. 7 arrangements later, Spiritus was born and released online, worldwide, on all leading music services including iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon MP3. The very next year, I released the Intoxicated album. Since then, I've worked on multiple arrangements involving my iPad, keyboards and music production softwares. Read more about my home studio setup here.

For starters, here are my top five projects:

Watch all of my projects on YouTube!

Back to being a web developing geek

I've been using HTML, CSS and JS programming for over a decade to code and design my blogs and websites. If you have suggestions and/or feedback that could help me improve your experience here, please write to me!

Becoming a cat-dad

Back in February 2020, for the first time in our lives, we welcomed Maya - a 4-year old Brown Tabby from SPCA into our lives. She had cancer and despite everyone's best efforts, she sadly passed away; however, her unconditional love opened up the doors to Misha, Gigi, Gracey and Kuki, further rescues from SPCA.

My Christmas Album is dedicated, In Loving Memory of Maya.