hi everyone. my name is Tomislav Babic. I'm 35 and I live in Croatia. I work as a freelance
film/tv composer in Zagreb.
I took piano lessons from age of 7 to 14. Listening to a lot of prog and electronic from 70s from my older brother's records mayde me want to play and make something like that. So, beginning high school i got a poly800 and started composing - sort of. Later i played in a local progrock trio using Hammond X5 DX7 and a JX10. In parallel my fascination with synths and electronic sound experimentation grew.
It all stopped when i went to study electrical engineering at the university. After 3 yrs I decided to return to my music roots and left to spend couple of years studying composition and orchestration at UCSB. I also had classes in electronic music with "classic" tape tehniques as well as dsp, computer editing etc. After this , with newly found esteem i went home, and more or less started what i do to this day.
I wrote music for many animated films, most of them had some success on international festivals of animation.
Also, I scored documentaries, short and experimental films, theater plays. Last year I finally scored a full-length motion picture, which was my long time dream.
Style of music that I write is usually contemporary classical with Ravel, Stravinsky, Bartok and Borodin as my influences, and/or ambient electronic featuring synthesis and extensive sound design/audio editing. Sometimes, if project calls for it, i add some local ethnic flavor as well (voice, guitar, etc)
I own a small studio geared towards my needs.
It is centered arround a PC/Nuendo2/Rosetta800. Hardware is ADAM P22, TC4000, SRV3030D etc
Orchestration is done w Kontakt and E4XTU.
I use the following synths:
Roland JD990, MKS70 w PG800
Yamaha TX802, FS1R
Korg Triton Studio Pro
Alesis Andromeda
Waldorf XT30
Rhodes Mark I (just got it)
Other things i do:
-Playing keyboards in a mildly succesful Croatian rock band FLARE; we recorded our 2nd album recently. We played tours thru Croatia , and neighboring Slovenia and Bosnia. This provided a much needed break from studio, as well as lot of good times in strange places.
-Mixing Croatian VO with with English language IT track for animated series like Powerpuff Girls and Pokemon , for Croatian "Nova TV"
-I've done a couple of remix projects and that's something i'd like to do more in the future.
Future wishes: to find time and finish my ambient/electro lounge tracks and find somebody to release it. To be an electronic music recording artist is my still unfulfilled dream.
Thanks to all for making this such a great forum.
Specially to guys here responsible for makings of a really fantastic instrument(s)..
Tom