Safar
began spinning wax in 1991 at venues and parties in the San Francisco
scene and traveled throughout the U.S. and Canada, playing at
different venues and guest DJed on many radio stations. In 1994,
he began composing and producing music. In 1997, with six years
experience in the industry and three years in production, he started
an independent label called Whirling Records. Also working as
an independent remix artist/producer on smaller labels such as
Strictly Rhythm, he earned credits and releases on Warner/Reprise
Records (USA) and Mute Records (UK) with Depeche Mode remixes.
Cutting
out of “the scene” to pursue an exhilarating career
selling cars for Ford Motor Company, he eventually revived his
heart and enrolled in Ex'pression College for Digital Arts to
dive deeper into a total immersion pursuit of his dreams in sound
arts and music production.
While attending school, Safar’s outside roles included sound
design and music production for Digital Mark Studios and Honey
Interactive, and audio engineering for Live 105 BFD-DVD recording.
Following graduation with a bachelor of applied science degree
in sound arts, in January of 2001, he joined Ripe Sound where
he started sound effects editing and mastering for Ripe
Sound’s sound effects
library. He also worked on sound design for several national and
international ads for “ripe sound” clients such as
Budweiser, Adidas, Panasonic, Playstation, Yahoo, Burger King,
Zima, Discover Card, EA Sports, Fox NFL, Napster, Havoline motor
oil, and many more.
Over
the last eleven years Safar has worked in post-production for
film, TV and radio, working at a variety of studios such as; Ripe
Sound, Robert Berke Sound, Crescendo Studios, One Union Recording,
Fantasy Studios, The Saul Zaentz Film Center, Wave Group, and
SNP Communications. At those studios he was doing sound design
and music for national and international ads, short films, animation,
video games and multimedia, as well as doing data base management,
operating system optimization, software and hardware installations
and upgrades, system maintenance and technical support. He also
has over sixteen years experience in music production as an artist,
composer, producer, recording, mixing, and mastering engineer,
with major label credits and releases on EMI, Virgin, Capitol,
Warner Brothers, Reprise, and more.
In 2003, Safar completed a full-length
album for EMI Music (Virgin/Capitol) released in the Middle East,
France, and Germany under the name Spiritual Brothers with his
partner Pierre Ravan, with several featured artists including
legendary Persian singer Daruish and the king of Quwali music
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, B.R. Shankar, Divasonic, and the Arabic
superstar Hasna, which followed by a single with Rulers Of The
Deep for Shinichi /Yoshi Toshi, and Divasonic's full-length album
Birth.
While doing freelance and contract work as an Audio Engineer,
Sound Designer, Editor and Music Producer, working on titles such
as “Guitar Hero”, and “Karaoke Revolutions”,
in the gaming industry, Safar was also a Sound Arts Instructor
at Expression College for Digital Arts, teaching Digital Audio
Workstation, Audio Post Production, Game Audio, and occasionally
MIDI classes.
Most recent projects include sound design and implementation on
“The Simpsons Game” for EA, with additional music
production and remix of “Rock You Like a Hurricane”
by Scorpions for the game. And sound design, dialogue, music,
and implementation for Arcadia's casual 3D on-line games.
In
2010 Safar completed sound design and implementation on "Iron
Man 2" Game for SEGA
Studios.