Thomas Becker

Electronic music maker, moving between different styles: new age, ambient, trance, jazz, drum'n'bass, etc. Particular timbrical blendings, all from electronic instruments (digital and simulated-analog) and effects.

ABOUT:
I was born in Milano (Italy) from German father and Italian mother, and have always been living in this city. At the age of 8 began my interest in computers, initially with programming and videogaming, when my father bought one of the first home computers, a ZX Spectrum 48 K by Sinclair. At the age of 10 I began to take piano lessons, which went on for about a year. The thing seemed to have ended there, but when at the age of 15 (year 1991) I began experimenting with an assisted composition program bought by my father (Instant Music by Electronic Arts), my passion for composition started, which is going on still now. I've always been bound to the computer (passing to more powerful systems over time) for making music, even if later I began playing the electric guitar and the flute (taking lessons from Christian Lorenzi and Gianfranco Panighini for the guitar and Maria Grazia Tosi for the flute). I soon began to distribute my works on bullettin board systems (before the advent of the internet), with the nickname Stun. In that period I have been member of various demo-scene groups: Mystic, Biosynthetic Design and Nah-Kolor (in chronological order). Starting from 1999 I also put to the side of my computer various synthesizers for sound generation, and also in 1999 started my presence on the internet, with various pages, downloadable tunes and albums on sale. Until year 2001 my way of composing has been by ear, having very little notions of music theory. Then I began to take theory (and later keyboard practice) lessons from Paolo Peruffo, and I think that this has been useful. At this moment I'm in search of my first record deal.

CONTACT:
My main web sites: www.tbecker.net www.thomasbecker-music.tk My e-mail: tbecker76@tin.it My location is Milano, Italy.