# Our Story: Music, Art, and Sixteen Years of Creating Together
What started years ago as a small, almost improvised music project has grown into a creative business built around two lifelong passions: music and art.
Our story began in South Korea, where two music lovers from very different backgrounds met and discovered a shared passion for creating, recording, collecting, and experimenting with sound.
One of us brought years of enthusiasm for guitars, instruments, and music gear. The other brought a newly acquired piano, a curiosity about music, and an appreciation for the beauty and emotion that instruments can create. We didn't have a business plan. We simply had passion, curiosity, and a willingness to see where it would take us.
Our first studio was tiny. Very tiny.
We used a mattress for acoustic treatment, basic recording software, a small computer, good headphones, and whatever we could find to improve the sound. At one point, we even used egg cartons for acoustic treatment—which meant eating an impressive number of eggs before the acoustic foam arrived as a precious gift.
From South Korea, our creative journey traveled to Santa Barbara, California, and eventually to Bogotá, Colombia. Each move brought new challenges, new friends, new musical experiences, and an ever-growing collection of instruments and equipment. We recorded, experimented, painted, learned, and occasionally wondered how so much gear could possibly fit in spaces where we could not circulate anymore.
Along the way, painting became another important part of our shared creative life. Sixteen years ago, we found ourselves surrounded by the unmistakable smell of paint, canvases waiting to be transformed, and original paintings to exhibit and create together. What began as a shared fascination with visual art grew into another way of exploring ideas, materials, memories, and emotions.
For years, making money wasn't really the objective. The project was driven by creativity and the simple joy of making things. We recorded musicians, helped students, welcomed friends and family into our studio, and continued learning about music, sound, and visual expression.
Eventually, our journey brought us to Texas.
And here, something changed.
The passion remained the same, but the project began to grow into a real business. TigerGallop Studios emerged as a home for the many forms our creativity has taken—and for all the possibilities still waiting to be explored.
Today, our work reaches beyond recording studios and traditional canvases. We create unique art pieces using repurposed wine bottles, mechanical parts, and other found objects. Some pieces reflect a fascination with the mechanics, character, and culture surrounding Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Others emerge from the unexpected beauty of everyday materials.
Nature contributes its own collection of treasures. During casual walks, we gather flowers, vines, palm fragments, and other natural elements that catch our attention. These small discoveries find their way into our creative process, bringing organic textures, unexpected shapes, and new possibilities into our work.
We believe that inspiration can be found almost anywhere: in the sound of a guitar, the worn surface of a mechanical part, the curves of a discarded bottle, the colors of a painting, or a flower discovered along a familiar path.
Great creative work doesn't always begin with perfect equipment, a big studio, or a perfect plan. Sometimes it begins with two people who love music, a little space, a lot of determination—and perhaps a slightly unreasonable number of egg cartons.
Sixteen years of painting, years of musical experimentation, journeys across continents, and countless creative adventures have brought us here. What connects it all is our belief that creativity has no single medium, no fixed destination, and no reason to stop evolving.
TigerGallop Studios is the result of that journey: music, art, friendship, experimentation, persistence, and a genuine love for what we do.
Two future CEOs, still making things together.
And we're just getting started.
