Conference programme

SoundTrack_Cologne 19 Opening

Reception

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Brad Derrick

Workshop Talk

Brad Derrick always wanted to be a rockstar, but accidentally ended up with an even better gig: Video Game Composer. During his years as a performing & touring musician, he picked up a couple music degrees on the side including a Masters in Electronic Composition, synthesizing his passions for music and technology. Upon completion of his studies there came an offer to work at Kesmai Studios, a tiny little powerhouse of a game studio that stood at the nexus of online gaming in the early 1990s. In the 30 years since, Brad has worked on countless titles, large and small, famous and not-so-famous, producing everything from cute little chip tunes to monstrous orchestral works. Since 2009 he has worked for Zenimax Online Studios, producing music for the enourmously popular "Elder Scrolls Online".

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Richard Jacques

Workshop Talk

Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Richard Jacques is a multi award-winning, BAFTA and IVOR NOVELLO nominated composer of film, television and video games, renowned for his critically acclaimed orchestral scores for blockbuster franchises such as James Bond 007, Mass Effect, Starship Troopers and Headhunter. Jacques’ breakout orchestral score for Headhunter was the first video game soundtrack to record with A-list musicians at the world famous Abbey Road Studios. Returning to the action genre in bombastic style, Jacques’ award-winning 'Classic modern Bond score' for 007: Blood Stone took interactive action scoring to the next level as he delivered a high energy original soundtrack which immerses the audience in a thrilling, cinematic Bond experience. Most recently, Jacques returned to Abbey Road to record his latest opus – a heroic, original thematic score and epic intergalactic symphony for Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy.

He is a Fellow of Wells Cathedral School, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Essex in 2013 for services to Music and Media. Jacques is also the 2017 recipient of the Game Audio Network Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award,

Richard Jacques is represented by The Gorfaine / Schwartz Agency in Burbank, California.

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• Richard Jacques

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Marie Havemann

Workshop Talk

Marie Havemann  is the Senior Audio Designer and additional composer of Albion Online and also a Freelance Composer and Sound Designer working closely with several Indie Companies. 

In her 9 years in the games industry she has collaborated with several small to medium sized studios and publishers like Deep Silver, Stainless Games and various indie studios. In many of those projects she was responsible for the whole audio experience and defining the requirements of the musical experience - requiring a broad knowledge of music and sound as well as the technology behind games. One of these challenges was the recent redesign/extension of the soundtrack of the MMO Albion Online by Sandbox Interactive.

Designing adaptive music systems: A holistic approach

Talk Description:

Defining the musical needs of a game is one of the first challenges when joining a team to work on a new project. How can you help them find the best music design for their game? While all games need a global music management system for several parts of gameplay, tutorials often only cover partial solutions for very specific musical styles and lack a more holistic perspective. In this talk we want to take this holistic perspective and look into where to start when defining the musical needs of a project, what questions to ask first, what a basic adaptive music system needs and what that looks like within the most common middleware tools FMOD and Wwise. 

Takeaways:

• learn what the needs of a basic adaptive music system are and what that entails for the implementation process
• get insights how these systems can be setup within FMOD and Wwise with a more holistic approach
• Learnings from my mystakes in all stages of production
• get tips on how/when to convince your team to use middleware

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• Marie Havemann

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Roundtable Discussion

Discussion

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• Helge Borgarts
• Brad Derrick
• Marie Havemann
• Richard Jacques

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SEE THE SOUND Special Screening: SIGHT & SOUND: THE CINEMA OF WALTER MURCH

Film screening

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Mia and Me - The Hero of Centopia

Case Study

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• Stefan Behrisch
• Andreas Kirnberger
• Christoph Zirngibl

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Mein Lotta-Leben 2

Case Study

Case Study about the music in the children film MEIN LOTTA-LEBEN - Alles Tschaka mit Alpaka.

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• Markus Aust
• Dagmar Blume-Niehage
• Helmut Zerlett
• Martina Plura

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Spotting, the Temp and Rewrites

Case Study

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• Richard Bellis

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Sensorial Scores

Case Study

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• Florencia di Concilio

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Lunch Break

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Update Media Music Politics

Discussion

Includes AI-Generated Music and Copyright; Buyout, Coerced Publishing

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• Marc du Moulin
• Jesper Hansen
• Burak Özgen
• Katharina Uppenbrink
• Micki Meuser

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Music Licensing and Distribution - Present and Future

Workshop

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• Alex Black

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Telematic Music: Remote Recording

Workshop

Remote online live playing and recording - with free tools

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• Bernd Keul

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NFTs for Film Music

Presentation

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• Larry Dvoskin

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ECHO

Case Study

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• Thom Kubli
• Mareike Wegener

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How do I get work?

Workshop

Networking, Human Skills, Who is Who, Psychology of dealing with the Crew.

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• Flemming Nordkrog

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Blue Hour

Reception

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Jon Ekstrand

Workshop Talk

Jon Ekstrand is a Stockholm based Swedish film composer and artist. He began his career under the mentorship of acclaimed sound designer Owe Svensson, where he sharpened his skills at understanding the power of sound and its dramaturgic importance in helping a story realize its potential. In 1998, whilst attending Stockholm Film School, Ekstrand met Director Daniel Espinosa, in which the two formed a tight creative relationship which continues to this day.

Ekstrand and Espinosa have collaborated on seven films, including the hit trilogy “Easy Money” as well as Hollywood Studio Films “Child 44,” “Life,” and the Marvel film “Morbius.” Jon is also scoring the 2022 biopic feature “Hilma,” by acclaimed director Lasse Hallström, about the life or revered abstract artist and spiritual pioneer Hilma af Klint.

Jon has had a rich career within films, having worked the entire spectrum of the sound team – from boom operator, sound recordist, to sound designer and today as accoladed composer. Ekstrand is a self-confessed synthesizer addict, and generally starts building his scores around electro acoustic elements. His scores range in genre from more minimal arthouse ambient to epic thriller dramas, where he has recorded with full orchestras at both Air Studios in London, Colombia Studios and Sony Studios in Los Angeles. To date, Ekstrand has scored over 30 films and TV series, has been nominated for Three Swedish Gullbaggage Awards, and in January 2020 was awarded The Danish Film Institutes Robert Award, for his 2019 score to the film Queen of Hearts.

Ekstrand is passionate and actively engaged in expanding diversity within the film industry and is part of a composer’s mentorship program arranged through the Swedish collecting society STIM.

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• Jon Ekstrand

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Ádám Balázs

Workshop Talk

To date, Ádám Balázs scored sixty films, including Ildikó Enyedi’s Cannes Competition contender "Story of My Wife" and her Golden Bear winning and Academy Award nominated “On Body and Soul”, Kristóf Deák’s Academy Award winning “Sing”, Seth Grossman’s Tribeca Film Festival winner “Shock Act” and “The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations” (Lionsgate), over a thousand episodes of TV including HBO Europe’s “Terápia” (In Treatment”) and “Umbre” (“Shadows”) and was responsible for the worldwide network identity of Cinemax and HBO for seven years. Adam is also Professor of Film Music at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and a Member of the European Film Academy. He studied Music Composition at the Béla Bartók Conservatory of Music and holds a Master in Medieval English Literature. After his studies he moved to LA and became an established music composer for film and television.

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• Ádám Balázs

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HARPA Award Winner Sanna Salmenkallio

Workshop Talk

For me music is a way to explore the world. I compose with curiosity.
 
Sanna Salmenkallio is one of the most experienced film composers in Finland. She has composed the score for more than 30 films, mostly artistically ambitious documentary features. As a composer she has worked with symphony orchestras, smaller ensembles, and electronic music. 

Salmenkallio has created her own style by mixing classical background to different contemporary and experimental elements. Her strength, in addition to composing, is a deep understanding of dramaturgy. She has won four Jussi Awards for the best film score in Finland. She has also composed lots of music for theatre and dance performances. She loves experimental film and theatre as well and works regularly with community art projects.

She has both classical music education from Sibelius Academy and an education as Sound Designer from Theatre Academy, which creates an inspiring dialogue between sound and music. She has also a passion for Arabic music, which she studied in Cairo. As a violinist she is specialized on improvisation.

Working languages : Finnish, English, Swedish. Also, able to work with Danish and French material.

In cooperation with HARPA.

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• Sanna Salmenkallio

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Academy Award Winner John Ottman

Workshop Talk

John Ottman is one of the most unique creatives in the film industry, holding dual distinctions a major film composer and a BAFTA and Oscar winning film editor, and was also nominated for an Emmy for his score to the 1998 “Fantasy Island” remake.

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• John Ottman

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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Walter Murch

Talk

Since the 1960s, Murch has been working in film as editor, sound mixer, writer and director– a genius ‘who has created new standards in editing and sound design’ (SRF). His career began in 1969 as a sound editor and mixer on Francis Ford Coppola's ‘The Rain People.’ Subsequently, he and George Lucas co-wrote the screenplay for Lucas's his first feature-length film, "THX 1138,” and Murch was the sound designer of Lucas’s next film, "American Graffiti."

Altogether he has worked on over 30 titles including cinematic milestones such as ‘The Godfather (I – III)’, ‘The Conversation’, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘The English Patient, ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, ‘Cold Mountain, and many other films, both as film editor and sound designer/mixer. He collaborated with directors such as Fred Zinnemann, Philip Kaufman, Anthony Minghella, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Mendes and Brad Bird. Murch is also the director and co-writer of ‘Return to Oz’ produced entirely in the UK, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Altogether he has worked on over 30 titles including cinematic milestones such as ‘The Godfather (I – III)’, ‘The Conversation’, ‘Apocalypse Now’, ‘The English Patient, ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’, ‘Cold Mountain, and many other films, both as film editor and sound designer/mixer. He collaborated with directors such as Fred Zinnemann, Philip Kaufman, Anthony Minghella, Kathryn Bigelow, Sam Mendes and Brad Bird. Murch is also the director and co-writer of ‘Return to Oz’ produced entirely in the UK, and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

Murch has been nominated for nine Academy Awards (six for film editing and three for sound) and has won three Oscars: for best sound on ‘Apocalypse Now’ and for Best Film Editing and Best Sound for his work on ‘The English Patient’. His double win in these categories in 1997 was unprecedented in the history of the Oscars. In 1974 Murch received two BAFTA’s for Best Sound and Best Picture Editing for ‘The Conversation.’

Murch is a true pioneer in his field - he significantly shaped the term ‘sound designer’: Together with some of his fellow colleagues he devised the now-standard 5.1 sound format. And that’s not all, for the premiere of "Apocalypse Now" in Cannes, he even installed his own sound system there overnight, because there were no movie theaters with 5.1 surround sound until then.

As the winner of the SoundTrack_Cologne Lifetime Achievement Award, Walter Murch joins the ranks of many renowned prize winners such as Craig Armstrong, Bruce Broughton, Cliff Martinez, Michael Nyman, Irmin Schmidt, Peter Thomas, Klaus Doldinger, Don Davis and Rachel Portman.

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• Walter Murch

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Music Supervisors Ben Summer and Neeltje Mooring

Workshop Talk

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• Neeltje Mooring
• Ben Sumner

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Music Supervisors Mounir Hathout and Sarah Mibus

Workshop Talk

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• Mounir Hathout
• Sarah Mibus

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Track Check Production Music

Discussion

Send in your music and have it checked by production music experts.

With:

• Martin Häne
• Gaby Steiner
• Sarah Mibus
• Neeltje Mooring

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AI-based Music Consulting

Workshop

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• Jay Ahern
• Justin Michael La Vallee

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Lunch Break

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Publishing 2022: What is it good for?

Workshop

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• Ralf Schulze

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Wieviel soll ich da nehmen?

Discussion (In German only)

Impuls: Gemeinsame Vergütungsregeln – Stand + Zukunft

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• Stefan Döring
• Micki Meuser
• Maxi Menot
• Imogen Kimmel

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Legal Basics und Filmmusikverträge

Workshop (In Germany only)

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• Klaus Weber

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!!! LOCATION CHANGED !!! International Matchmaking

Matchmaking Session

!!! LOCATION CHANGED !!!

Join our exclusive International Matchmaking!

SoundTrack_Cologne has selected experienced professionals from the music, media and film business, who are interested in meeting you to exchange knowledge or to give advice or just to expand your network!

You are given the opportunity to meet many new potential business partners in short one-on-one meetings within just 90 minutes!

You can request meetings with our delegates by filling in the > ONLINE FORM until 7^th June 10:00am CEST: > link

Please note, that we might not fulfil your meeting request, if there are more requests than available meeting slots. Therefore we recommend to send back the form as soon as possible and to introduce yourself with a short biography and goal for each requested meeting by filling in the Meeting Form.

Please be aware: Access to the matchmaking requires a valid accreditation for SoundTrack_Cologne 19 for June 10^th 2022! Get your accreditation >here!

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• Larry Dvoskin
• Martin Häne
• Mounir Hathout
• Imogen Kimmel
• Barbara Krämer
• Jan-Paul Laarmann
• Thomas Mikusz
• Neeltje Mooring
• Franziska Pohlmann
• Corinna Poeszus
• Ralf Schulze
• Klaus Weber

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Publicity for Film Composers Part 1

Workshop

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• Thomas Mikusz

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Publicity for Film Composers Part 2

Workshop

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• Thomas Mikusz

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AcadeMeet

Discussion

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• Ádám Balázs
• Andy Hill
• Francisco Tigre-Moura

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Better MIDI mockups with SINE

Hands-On Workshop

Making your samples work for you: Better MIDI mockups with SINE

In cooperation with Orchestral Tools.

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Blue Hour

Reception

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Networking Lounge

Networking

Networking Lounge kindly supported by Orchestral Tools.

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Composing for TV: Hesham Nazih

Workshop Talk

Hesham Nazih is an Egyptian composer best known for his distinguished style that interweaves authentic melodies with contemporary music. Nazih has built a 20+ year artistic career and has under his belt more than 40 award-winning soundtracks of blockbuster films that dominated the Egyptian box-office and achieved critical acclaim such as Snakes and Ladders, Ibrahim Labyad, The Blue Elephant I and II, Sons of Rizk I and II, and The Treasure I and II. His TV hits include Friendly Fire, The Seven Commandments, The Covenant, and Shahid’s Every Week Has A Friday.

In addition to an impressive repertoire, Hesham has also received a plethora of “Best Music” awards for many of his works. And in November of 2021, he was honoured by the prestigious Arab Music Festival in its 30th edition in recognition of his musical career and for the excellent work he did composing the accompanying music for The Pharaohs' Golden Parade.

Hesham’s scores were recorded at some of the world’s best studios including Abbey Road in London, Smecky Music Studios in Prague, and Synchron Stage Vienna.

Most recently, Nazih was also featured in an in-conversation alongside the two- time Academy Award Winner A.R Rahman within the events of Cairo Industry Days of Cairo International Film Festival, the same festival where he previously received the honorary Faten Hamama Excellence Award, marking the first composer to ever receive this award.

Recently, Hesham worked on the Marvel series Moon Knight which premiered on March 30^th, 2022 on Disney+.

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• Hesham Nazih

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Charité 2

Workshop Talk

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• Hannah von Hübbenet

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SLØBORN

Case Study

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• Christoph Schauer
• Max Filges

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Giorgio Giampà

Workshop Talk

Giorgio Giampà is an award winning film music composer who recently won the Best Score Award at Canneseries 2021 for the Sky Studios produced Tv Series “Christian”. 
In 2018 he was nominated for a Fenix Award (the latin american Oscars) for his work on Sundance Award winner mexican film “Tiempo Compartido/Time Share” whose soundtrack album was released by iconic hollywood record label Varèse Sarabande (Game of Thrones, Kung Fu Panda, Ghost Writer, Lost, Bourne, etc), in 2014, he was nominated for an Italian Golden Globe (Il Sud è Niente), and in 2017 and 2019 he received Golden Ciak nominations (Fraulein, Il padre d’Italia, La Profezia dell’Armadillo).

He was awarded for Best Score at the prestigious Kinotavr Open Russia Film Festival in 2016 (Wake Me Up).

Throughout his career, he has scored feature films, tv series, documentaries and short films from Italy, Mexico, Sweden, Russia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K and the Emirates Arab United. His work has led him to write music with Nic Cester (Jet) and Gyda Valtysdottir (Mùm), to mix with Daniel Kresco (Joker, Arrival, Sicario) and to record with the Iskra String Quartet (The XX, Radiohead, Olafur Arnalds).

Giorgio is currently represented by Los Angeles’ First Artists Management (Carter Burwell, Vangelis, Craig Armstrong) and endorsed by Focal, Studiologic and Eko.
Festival premieres include Sundance (2018), Toronto (2013, 2015), Berlin (2014), Venice (2009, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021), Locarno (2011, 2016), Busan (2016), San Sebastian (2015), Sxsw (2020, 2021).

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• Giorgio Giampà

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TimeRide - Music for VR

Case Study

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• Patrick M. Schmitz

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John Groves: Music as Medicine

Reality Check

*Healthcare - a new area of work for composers

A good media composers can instinctively steer thoughts and emotions. By combining this capability with knowledge of the effects of sound and music on health, composers will have the opportunity to enter a new, interesting, and meaningful work area.

The main job of applied music is to communicate and steer perception.

It does this by influencing thoughts and emotions. With just a few notes or a chord progression, a good composer can can trigger a specific association or memory that can conjure up pictures and emotions in the minds of their listeners. These trigger signals are generally chosen intuitively from the composers personal sound biography, which is based on their life experience. But such life experiences can differ, meaning that these cognitive primers may not fully align with those of the average listener, reducing the likelihood of fully achieving the intended result. In some cases a wrong signal could even trigger an adverse effect.

Optimising the effect of applied sound and music by using techniques for supporting intuition.

This workshop will look at ways of reducing the guesswork when selecting the sounds that really have to cause a specific effect. In healthcare, the role of sound moves from being supportive to the main information carrier.

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• John Groves

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The Swimmer

Case Study

With:

• Axel Bolo
• Vincent Tremel

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Reality Check

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• Bernd Keul

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Lunch Break

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European Talent Competition Screening

Competition Screening

With:

• Marcel Barsotti
• Hanna Heimann
• Sanna Salmenkallio
• Josef Steinbüchel

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European Talent Competition Screening

Competition Screening

With:

• Marcel Barsotti
• Hanna Heimann
• Sanna Salmenkallio
• Josef Steinbüchel

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PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD

Competition screening

With:

• André Feldhaus
• Hannah von Hübbenet

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Dolby Atmos for Streaming

Workshop

With:

• David Ziegler
• Bernd Keul

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Dolby Atmos for Streaming

Workshop

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• David Ziegler

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Networking Lounge

Lounge

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• Michael Aust

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SoundTrack_Cologne Award Ceremony

Award Ceremony

Moderation: Hanna Sophie Lüke

SOUNDTRACK_COLOGNE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
TO WALTER MURCH
Laudatory speech: John Ottman

PEER RABEN MUSIC AWARD

WDR FILMSCORE AWARD
Sponsored by WDR

EUROPEAN TALENT AWARD SOUNDDESIGN
Sponsored by Chaussee SoundVision

SEE THE SOUND AWARD
Prize for the Best Music Documentary

GET TOGETHER AFTERWARDS 

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