Thomas Foster (music producer)

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Thomas Foster

Thomas Foster (born April 20, 1969 in Salzburg ) is an Austrian music producer and DJ .

Life

Foster began to learn the piano at the age of six and formed his first band with his current partner Peter Kent at the age of seven. At 16 he began to study composition at the Mozarteum in Salzburg.

Together with Peter Kent, Thomas Foster specialized in the production of musical packaging elements (jingles, station IDs, etc.) for radio and TV stations. Foster Kent produced the entire musical packaging for Ö3 in 1994 . This was followed by the signature for Zeit im Bild and the musical packaging for Austria 1 .

Act

In the last ten years, Foster and Kent produced the acoustic packaging for over 100 TV and radio stations, including:

SWR3 , WDR 2 , Radio Be one (Belgium), Hamburg TV , Hitradio RTL , Radio Hamburg , You FM (HR), HR 4 , Hitradio FFH , Bayern 3 , Jump ( MDR ), Spreeradio, Radio 7 , Bayern 1 , Sputnik (MDR), Antenne Brandenburg ( RBB ), NDR 2 , NDR 90.3 , NDR 1 Welle Nord , NDR 1 Radio MV , [NDR Info], N-Joy , Radio Ton , Gong 96.3 , Kiss FM , Ö3, DRS 3 , Figaro (MDR), RTL Radio , ORF 1 and ORF 2 ;

In 1997 Thomas Foster and Peter Kent produced the music for the "state of the art" project, an interactive communication project with the focus on a worldwide motivational campaign to promote awareness of the preservation of cultural heritage. A communication tower was built in Salzburg to present the entire project . The 34 meter high metal construction based on a design by the architect Matteo Thun was built in the middle of Salzburg's old town. It was supposed to serve as an antenna for a global communication network and as the technical basis for the first collection of interactive light sculptures in the world. From this tower, about 8000 square meters of light projections were projected onto the wall of the Mönchsberg . The entire project was presented to the public on July 21, 1997, the opening evening of the Salzburg Festival .

In cooperation with Jost Strnat (various prizes & awards: "Top Spot" / ORF, State Prize for Advertising, "Edward", Creativ Club Austria / "Venus", posters & advertisements of the month, advertisement of the year etc.) and Peter Kent wrote and in 1998 Thomas Foster produced the musical "It's Written in the Stars".

In collaboration with the DJ Christian Hornbostel, remixes for "Satoshi Tommiie" and productions such as "Into Your Mind" and "Back to the Music" were created. Many of these productions can still be heard in the big clubs in Ibiza and London.

In 2001 Thomas Foster produced several titles for Ariane Roth and her father Ron Williams

In cooperation with various radio stations (including FFN , Gong 96.3), Thomas Foster started the "Radiostar" campaign, a nationwide singer casting. The winners of this campaign were the groups "Think Twice" and "Love Crush".

"Love Crush" was released with the titles "Love Is Live" and "Big Boys Don't Cry" on WEA , Germany, and took part in the German preliminary decision for the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest . "Think Twice" was published by the German label "Carolath" with the title "feeling the raindrops of true love", voted the hit tip of the week by Bravo magazine and supported the No Angels' entire tour of Germany as the opening act .

In 2004 Thomas Foster produced the singer John Davis, who became known as the original voice of Milli Vanilli .

In 2005 Thomas Foster produced four tracks for the album of Ken Ross, the lead Trumpet player in the multiple EMMY-award-winning TV show The Wayne Brady Show, who has already appeared on stage with stars like Al Jarreau, Prince and Lionel Richie. Since then, Ken Ross and Thomas Foster have been working creatively together again and again, one from California, the other from Salzburg. The song "Hypnotic Trip", again a composition by Thomas Foster, will be first released on CD at the MAX WAVE MUSIC LOUNGE; The singer of the piece is Jimmie Wilson.

Since 2009 he has been playing together with the singer Ariane Roth and the guitarist Tom Huber in the electro-experimental band Ivotion , which works with the visual artist Markos Aristides Kern aka Mar-K.os. worked together. Foster experiments with electrical elements like the cyber glove , touchscreen , Nyx or Tenori-on .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salzburgers set the tone. Retrieved April 13, 2013 .
  2. ↑ German major orders for Jingle Boys. Archived from the original on July 31, 2013 ; Retrieved April 13, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Ivotion , TV Munich , 2012th
  4. ↑ Ivotion , KiKA , 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Foster, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian music producer and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Salzburg