Tomy Rotem.
Film Composer, Sound Designer and DJ.

Photo by: Rom Eliaz

latest:

Screened at the 2024 Stuttgart Animation Festival! (ITSFS)
This is the official trailer for Alma Keni & Aviv Gafni’s Archive based-Documentary short: “Ugh, Listen”.

I had an amazing experience as The Sound Designer of this short animation film, and i also was lucky to score the Original Music for it.
this film is about multiple young woman sending WhatsApp voice notes to one busy friend, whining about anything you can think of: from the shallowest complains to the deepest mental crisis. this movie handles multiple sceneries that has their own character and story. i did my best “gluing” these stories together with both Sound Design and Music.

Animators and Visual Directors: Alma Keni and Aviv Gafni.
Original Score, Sound Design and Mix: Tomy Rotem.
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, July 2023.

Director Sivan Eyal‘s movie “Sun Too Hot” (2023) is now available to watch in full for free on Youtube!

I am responsible for The Sound Design work of this film.

There are movies that while I’m working on them, I totally feel that something special is going to happen with the movie when it hits the screen, and this is totally one of those. Sivan created a short, courageous and particularly fasinating debut film that also participated in several European and US indie film festivals. It’s definitely not a movie you see every day. And with endless hope and humility, I hope that my Sound Design manages to accompany the film well.

The film was Officially selected by Athens International Film Festival (AIMAF) and premiered at Milwakee’s Illumintate Film Festival (MIFF) in 2023.

This is the most emotionally triggered project for me that I may have worked on so far in my life.
Original Ambient-Dark Score and Sound Design by me for a breathtaking video work that was created by director and friend, Ron Altbrothe.
This piece holds a Dark-Ambient aesthetic, i scored it with focusing on creating Ambient Pads, playing Cello, Piano, a Drum Machine and a Detuned Bass Guitar.
we were both looking for a way to continue creating, despite what we are going through in this impossible time. Ron captured intimate and minimalist shots. Somewhere in Israel, far from the horrors.
She sent me sound clips from interviews and real-time recordings from that one horrible Saturday in southern Israel (Oct. 7, 2023), the final result is heartbreaking and hard to digest.
Moments of peace, unity and silence crashes with unimaginable recordings of souls in moments of complete helplessness.

Videography, editing, directing and subtitling: Ron Altbrothe.
Original music, Sound Design and Mix: Tomy Rotem.
October 2023.

About

Photography: Rom Eliaz

Tomy is an Israeli film composer and sound designer.

Being the son of an established musician, Tomy has been involved with music and sound as an avid and creative autodidact since his early childhood. Experimenting with various sound interfaces such as Samplers, Digital Audio Workstations, Turntables and other common Musical Instruments since a young age. releasing his first solo effort by the age of 14. (a DIY free-to-download “beat-tape” made in his bedroom). Since then, he has gained reputation and landed production credits as a versatile music producer, working and having in-studio sessions with notable Israeli musicians including Popular hip-hop artist Ravid Plotnik, Singer-Songwriter Dana Berger, Hiphop Veteran Shaanan Streett, and many others. In Addition, Tomy had also released Two Solo Projects (2017,2020) and Two EP’s (2018, 2024) through “Kame’a” Label.

One of the songs he had released as a solo artist, made a way to the soundtrack of the Israeli-American thriller television Netflix show “Hit & Run” (Episode #7, 2021).

Tomy had also established a strong demand as a DJ. playing in venues all over Israel and even performing a DJ set in “The Brickhouse” Club, located in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa in the Spring of 2019. Tomy also took part in the Jerusalem Film Festival’s (JFF2023) prestigious DJ lineup.

In the present, Tomy has been focusing on expanding as a film composer and a sound designer for short films, advertisements, and video art, collaborating with up-and-coming video and film producers.

Tomy resides in Jerusalem, Israel.

more works:

“9,807”.
this is a short animation sequence that draws inspiration from the Aztec Mythology and Space Aesthetics from Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films. i scored a music cue that blends Ambient and Ethnic/Tribal Elements. it also draws heavy inspiration from Ambient genre giants such as Brian Eno.

Animator and Visual Director: Ori Izraelov.
Original Score, Sound Design and Mix: Tomy Rotem
Shenkar, June 2023.

Here’s a short music piece that i composed for Director Ron Altbrote’s short film “Bsorot Tovot”. (“Good Tidings”).

Ron approached me with a demand for a Smooth, Lo-Fi Hiphop instrumental that would replace a popular existing song in her movie that was shelved due to copyright issues. the progress of this composition was lots of fun (not to mention that Hiphop and Beats are bread & butter).

Directed by: Ron Altbrothe
Original Score: Tomy Rotem
Sapir Academic College, 2021.