MinimumNoise contest winner Tom Smith

Tom Smith from Leeds, England was the winner of the MinimumNoise contest to edit Episode 1 of crowded.  Tom is:

I’m 28 years old, currently completing my final year of BA(hons) in Creative Music and Sound Technology at Leeds Metropolitan University.
I spent the last seven or eight years working as a care worker for people with brain injuries while doing musical projects on the side. I finally realised that I had to pursue my passion for music full time and joined up at Leeds Met.
I’m self taught on guitar and piano and I’m always trying to learn new instruments (I’m currently annoying the neighbours with a screechy second-hand violin!).
I compose and arrange in a wide variety of genres and I do a bit of live sound here and there. I love the internet and all the new challenges and opportunities it presents.

In addition, Ignacio Falk from Chile made the introduction.  Ignacio is a sound engineer from chile, who has worked in some radio stations (news and music). He plays the guitar and drums and makes his own guitar effects and audio equipment.

If you check out the contest page, you will see that we had some wonderful submissions from around the world.  Radius_Vector and SergeiStern provided some info about themselves.

Radius_Vector

I’m a 21 year old guitarist/composer. Actually a bio-engineer by qualification, but a music enthusiast by the night, and a business developer for an online gaming firm by the day. I released my first album ‘Transcend’, which can be downloaded for free here – http://www.gimmesound.com/Sridhar – it contains ambient, and folk influences from India, held together by a string of ‘minimalistic’ guitar playing, I’m not one for flashy playing, but I am very big on experimentation and good production. Of late, I’ve been working on a lot of heavier music (metal), stuff from which can be found here – http://www.soundclick.com/Melakartha

SergeiStern

I’m 28 years old, finished piano school in Russia and then got Bmus in composition and conducting from Israeli Academy of music, Tel aviv’s university.
Playing guitar, singing, arranging, composing. Now I’m mostly fond of creating music for video games, commercials and films and also working as session guitarist.
Hobbies.. I love sports, especially basketball.. I love literature, cinema and now planning to create and sell graphic stuff as well. I like drawing.