Ashay Javadekar

For the most of career, I have merged by training in Engineering with my passion for creativity and storytelling. This is the story how I have done that.

Beginnings

Computers + Theater + Medicine

I grew up in a family of doctors. My mom and dad both practiced medicine. However, along with their medical practice, they were hugely interested in theater and performing arts, and technology. Whenever a new piece of technology got introduced in the market, my dad used to bring it home and use it either for his medical practice or theater writing. I got introduced to 486 computers, multimedia machines, Lotus 123, Aldus Pagemaker, Corel Draw very early on in my life. My dad also invested in stocks and had a stock broker business on the side, and he used many mathematical softwares for that. Both of them used computers for maintaining patient records, and used visual softwares for creating artwork for theater and performing arts.

There was a newspaper stand near my place. I used to go there and pick up computer magazines. I was not interested much in the magazine, but the CD was used to ship with the magazine. The CD had trial versions for softwares that I could try. I remember trying out several music writing softwares in my childhood. I had a keyboard, and I used to connect it to the computer using a MIDI cable, and record tracks in the software. Then I used to mix them with the stock tracks available in the software to write jingles.