Set of various compositions of Richard Bretschneider. 

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Original music from the short film “Sintel”

Composed and produced by Jan Morgenstern
Performed by Helena Fix
Lyrics by Esther Wouda

I Move On (Sintel's Song)

Inspired by Diego Stocco's tutorial about Rhythmic Processing. 
http://www.diegostocco.com/introducing-feedforward-sounds-series/

Everything in this song is based on the sound of a single paper roll (thick paper from a carpet roll) which I played with a drumstick and sampled it. All percussive sounds are done by the Rhythmic Processing approach.

Paper Roll - Rhythmic Processing

The spot shall draw attention to the the fact that the impact of doing something good to others can be huge. In our spot: 

In the mountains of garbage from Manila an about 10-year-old boy gets a pair of shoes, which will change his life....

See the full spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbUt_vLgIZ8

Find Your Fate

A short experiment based on Diego Stocco's tutorials about Rhythmic and Convolution processing. I used espressobubbles as input for my convolution reverb and mixed up orchestral strings with Impulse Responses from a plastic bucket. 

If you like the sound you may think about to make me happy by liking my FB page ;-) https://www.facebook.com/richard.bretschneider

If you're interested in the tutorials that inspired me to do this sound check out Diego Stocco's site. The tutorials are worth every penny:
http://www.diegostocco.com/blog/

Espressobubbles

Don't wanna be your fool (Snippet)

UPDATE (20 Aug 2015): What made the comet sing? Scientists working on Rosetta's RPC instrument have found out why 67P/C-G was singing. Via http://wp.me/p46DHN-1nN
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ORIGINAL Citation (Oct 2014): Rosetta’s Plasma Consortium (RPC) has uncovered a mysterious ‘song’ that Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is singing into space. The comet seems to be emitting a ‘song’ in the form of oscillations in the magnetic field in the comet’s environment. It is being sung at 40-50 millihertz, far below human hearing, which typically picks up sound between 20 Hz and 20 kHz. To make the music audible to the human ear, the frequencies have been increased in this recording. This sonification of the RPC-Mag data was compiled by German composer Manuel Senfft (www.tagirijus.de).  Read full details in ESA's Rosetta blog: http://wp.me/p46DHN-Li 

Copyright Notice

Original Data Credit: ESA/Rosetta/RPC/RPC-MAG
Sonification: TU Braunschweig/IGEP/Manuel Senfft, CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Thumbnail image credit: ESA/Rosetta/NAVCAM – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

A Singing Comet

My contribution to the Sennheiser DrumN Remix Challenge using the DrumMic'a! plugin. I muted most of the original guitars, played new ones, re arranged the track to my liking, added some sounds and of course I created the drums using the great DrumMic'a! VST Plug In

Don't Wanna Be Your Fool - by Mindmovie

Don't Wanna Be Your Fool.by Marque Yulen

Meine Antwort auf die Dügida Demo in Düsseldorf am 12.01.2014. Kurz und knapp. Alles ist gesagt. 

Euer Rattengewitter

Braune Ratten mag ich nicht

Suite from the film score 'Not at all' which premiered at the Filmfestival Max Ophuels Preis 2015

Strings, grindstones and musicbox to an alternative experimental filmscore. 

Not at all - Suite from the original film score

Monsieur Noir

Heart on Hype Machine: http://hypem.com/track/2f6fe/Alma+Elste+-+Limitless

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Written and produced by Alma Elste
Recorded in London by Alma Elste and Fabian Prynn 
Mixed in Paris by Antoine Bordeaux
Mastered in Paris by Benjamin Joubert

Limitless

At the Cannes Film Festival 2016 I was invited to a small gathering at the Village International. Somebody gave me a glass of champagne and with this in my hand I felt confident enough to say hello to the famous film composer Atli Örvarsson. 

My first thought was ‚I didn’t know Atli is that young‘. After we have talked for a minute or so he said to me ‚I think what you just mentioned is how Atli Örvarsson approaches projects.‘ - For a second I thought he was talkin about himself in third person. But then I realized I actually wasn’t talking to Atli. Well I just knew I was talking to some composer from Iceland. And to hide how confused and embarrassed I was I just asked ‚Um I have to talk to somebody else. Are you on facebook?‘. This was when I learned I was talking to Ólafur Arnalds all the time. And I learned what a great composer he is (how was it possible I haven’t heard anything about him before??). 

Now with the new sample library OLAFUR ARNALDS CHAMBER EVOLUTIONS by Spitfire in my hands I thought I may share this story and dedicate a short instrumental song to it ;-) The song is called ‚How I met Ólafur Arnalds and thought he was Atli Örvarsson‘. Enjoy.

How I met Olafur and thought he was somebody else

Chased by a blonde zombie

Anticipate you and I remembering, delighting 13 young drummers from the slums of Rocinha, Rio de Janerio with our finger drum solo.

(Always wanted to perform a drum solo as far back as I can remember but was never possible on a drum kit. So, this composition was a chance to pretend a bit and improvise a drum solo. I use 3 fingers on right hand – sounding like drum sticks at times – and 2 on the other to tap, and for the guitar & cello strings. I hit the music box with my ring for symbol sound. Quite a physical and mental challenge to follow the echoes and maintain some cohesive rhythm. But at end, it is just a tree branch. For accomplished drummers I do hope you appreciate this effort.)

Anticipate you and I remembering, delighting 13 young drummers with our finger drum solo.

I'm an internationally working Musician, Sound creator and User Experience specialist. I make crazy music and cool music software.

Chased by a blonde zombie

Richard Bretschneider

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