As long as he can remember, Aris has been composing music. In 2003 he started making music for short films and got captivated by the unique feeling of the way music and visuals work together. He never stopped composing for the moving image ever since.

Aris currently lives in London, working as a freelance film & media composer. His work includes music for short films, documentaries, promo videos, videogames, theatre, dance theatre, slideshows and books. Aris believes that music is a storyteller and he creates music that tells stories that match the stories that movies tell.

Email: arislanaridis@gmail.com

Four years after his last release as Hauschka, composer Volker Bertelmann returns to City Slang for his new effort “PHILANTHROPY”. While touching on the work of musical innovators, such as Erik Satie and John Cage, Hauschka reimagines the potential of the prepared piano for the 21st century, a technique that involves inserting objects between the instrument’s strings or onto its hammers to expand its sonic and operative possibilities.

My professional career is extremely diversified. With a solid background in music composition, cultural studies and economics,  I work as a researcher, composer, performer, teacher, cultural events project manager and fundraiser.
As a composer I tend to mix heterogeneous elements such as contemporary harmony, mixed means with folk Balkan scales and rhythms. I have been commissioned to compose music for theatre, multimedia shows, dance choreography, chamber music, music for mixed means, for orchestra and for chorus. Currently I work on setting Ancient Drama and classical literature text as a prototype form for electroacoustic multimedia work. I am also passionate about scoring and performing new original music for old silent movies.

Max Richter trained in composition and piano at Edinburgh University, at the Royal Academy of Music, and with Luciano Berio in Florence.

On completing his studies, Max co-founded the iconoclastic classical ensemble Piano Circus, where he stayed for ten years, commissioning and performing works by Arvo Pärt, Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe and Steve Reich.

In the late 90s he worked with a number of electronic artists, notably Future Sound of London on their album 'Dead Cities". He subsequently collaborated with FSOL over a period of two years, also contributing to the albums "The Isness" and "The Peppermint Tree and Seeds of Superconsciousness". Max also collaborated with Mercury Prize winner Roni Size, on "In the Mode".

In June 2002, Max released his debut solo album, "memoryhouse", recorded with The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. This was followed in March 2004 by FatCat's release of "The Blue Notebooks", with featured readings by Tilda Swinton.

In 2005 Max produced Vashti Bunyan's outstanding comeback album "Lookaftering".

2006 saw the release of "Songs From Before" based on Haruki Murakami texts read by Robert Wyatt. That same year, Max began performing "from The Art of Mirrors", an evolving score to previously unseen Super 8mm films of Derek Jarman.

Max's more recent work continues to stretch the notions of what Classical music is.  ‘24 Postcards In Full Colour’, released in August 2008, is an experimental work made up of 24 composed ringtones.

Max works widely in film music, installation and the theatre, most recently on INFRA, made with Wayne MacGregor and Julian Opie for The Royal Ballet, London. The Ballet was the subject of a BBC 'making of' documentary.

Max was named 2008 European Composer Of The Year for his score to Ari Folman's Waltz With Bashir, for which he was also nominated for the Prix France Musique.

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