About Me
Hi and welcome!
I am Momčilo Petrović, a composer, pianist and music producer based in Hamburg, Germany.
My Story
I was born in 1993 in Belgrade, Serbia. At the age of 6 I started with piano and music theory lessons, which I later continued with formal training in classical piano performance. After completing my bachelor studies in Belgrade and master studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the desire to create my own music led me to pursue formal training in composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg, Germany.
During my composition studies, I discovered that my passion for writing original music is often strongly driven by the desire to tell stories through music and therefore naturally aligned with my love for film. This realisation motivated me to dive into the world of music for film and TV and taking on the first projects already during the studies, one of them being TV-drama Rekonstrukcija (2021), which was produced and broadcasted by Radio Television of Serbia.
After finishing the studies in march 2023, I was even more motivated to continue the storytelling journey with my music, so I focused on exploring and mastering other aspects of modern film composing that I wasn't able to learn during my formal training, such as sound design and sound processing techniques, professional mixing and mastering, both traditional and creative ways of using sound effects for achieving unusual soundscapes, as well as composing and producing music for numerous short film, documentary and animation film projects.
My Approach
After years of detailed classical training and additionally acquired composing skills and techniques, my goal has become to shift completely from thinking in music terms and to use the gathered knowledge in a very precise and goal oriented way, aiming to create the most fitting sound palette for every story I'm working on.
Because of that, when preparing for a new project, careful listening and detailed understanding of the director's ideas and visions are absolutely crucial for my process. I like to discuss the moods, intentions, interactions between the sound and the picture, as well as some cinematographic details like lighting settings or camera angles and movements, which are sometimes a very powerful source of inspiration for me. Also, whenever it is possible, I try to read the script before the post production process, because that way I can invest a sufficient amount of time into psychological and emotional analysis of characters and their correlations and interactions throughout the story.
Only then, I use my musical experience to translate all of that into sound. Shortly put, I try not to make music for the project, but instead to make the music together with the project.