Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt

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The Saxony-Anhalt Film Music Days have been held once a year in Halle (Saale) since 2008 . They consist of a specialist congress for music and sound , primarily in film , but also in other media (e.g. computer games ) and a large, public gala concert at which film music is presented to around 700 guests in various forms. The Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk has been recording the concert since 2010 and broadcast it on MDR Figaro with a time delay .

Gala concert of the 8th Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt 2015 in the Halle Opera (Saale).

The event, which will take place for the tenth time in 2017, is aimed at both professional visitors from science and practice as well as an audience interested in film and music, with a focus of the congress on the promotion of young talent, regardless of whether this is practical and / or scientific with film music and Film sound deals. The Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt is an event of the International Academy of Media and Arts e. V. in cooperation with the state of Saxony-Anhalt under the patronage of State Minister Rainer Robra .

program

The event deals with a different thematic focus each year (e.g. 2014 “Crossing the Bridge - The world is sound”). On the one hand, representatives from practice, film composers , film directors , film producers , editors , sound designers, sound engineers , noise makers, etc., who report on their projects, are invited to the two-day specialist congress , who report on their projects, and on the other hand also film scholars and Musicologists who deal theoretically and analytically with film music. During the lectures and discussions, a lot is explained practically with the help of audio software and film clips. Entire films are also presented or workshop discussions are held with composers, directors and producers.

Following the congress, the Staatskapelle Halle will perform a gala concert with Bernd Ruf as conductor, which is based on the motto of the event, with different soloists performing each year, e.g. For example, the Lebanese violinist Claude Chalhoub , the actress Eva Mattes ( Tatort ), the Portuguese fado singer Mísia or the DJ and producer Mousse T. In 2015, the film composer Jeff Beal (known for the music to Monk , Pollock , House of Cards ), which was awarded the German Film Music Prize in the International category during the week of the 8th Saxony-Anhalt Film Music Days . In 2016 international composers such as Oscar winner Stephen Warbeck (including Shakespeare in Love , Corelli's Mandolin ) and Éric Serra (including Léon - The Professional , The Fifth Element ) were guests. For the 10th anniversary, the Filmmusiktage welcomed guests such as Trevor Jones (including The Last of the Mohicans , The Dark Crystal ) and Harold Faltermeyer (including Top Gun , Beverly Hills Cop ). They were awarded the German Film Music Prize in the categories International and Honorary Prize National .

In addition, the concert serves as a stage for German premieres, e.g. B. 2010 Guillaume Connesson's Aleph as well as world premieres like 2010 ZwischenTäume , a monodrama by Elke Heidenreich and Marc-Aurel Floros or the 2012 concert suite for the movie Jesus loves me . In addition, historical instruments that have been forgotten are used at the concert, e.g. B. the trautonium , a forerunner of the synthesizer.

There is also an extensive supporting program that includes a retrospective film , a master class for up-and-coming composers as well as workshops and concert events that change every year.

The masterclass - THE ORCHESTRA

The masterclass - THE ORCHESTRA was launched in 2013 as an extension of the Saxony-Anhalt Film Music Days. The interdisciplinary masterclass enables young composers to work with an orchestra , supervised by experienced lecturers . It is designed for students, graduates and those interested in the field of film music composition. The three-day program of the master class - THE ORCHESTRA includes an introduction to working with an orchestra and an intensive examination of the subject of orchestration and sound engineering . This is followed by work with the Staatskapelle Halle . In the recording session, the Masterclass participants get an insight into recording-related variants and possibilities when playing their own film music . At the end of the masterclass - THE ORCHESTRA, each participant holds the film composition recorded by the Staatskapelle Halle in their hands on CD.

The following lecturers have supervised the master class in recent years:

For the seventh Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt 2014, a cooperation with the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation Wiesbaden took place for the first time . The participants of the master class set a film sequence from the silent film classic Tabu to music . In 2015 they set an excerpt from the film The tired death by Fritz Lang , 2016 The Apaches of Paris by Nikolai Malikoff.

Speakers at the Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt 2008–2018

Numerous well-known speakers from film practice and film and musicology have already been guests at the Film Music Days:

(Film) composers

Directors

scientist

Others

Artist Film Music Days Saxony-Anhalt 2008–2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report on musik-heute.de about the Film Music Days 2011
  2. ↑ Follow-up report of the 3rd Filmmusiktage Gema .de Article in which it is reported that the Opera Hall (672 seats) was sold out.
  3. ↑ Summary of the 2nd Film Music Days In 2009 the gala concert was also sold out.
  4. ↑ MDR information on the concert broadcast ( memento of the original from October 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  5. ↑ Actress Eva Mattes sings article Augsburger Allgemeine in the opera hall
  6. ↑ Report on Movie Music Days 2011 in Culture News .com
  7. ↑ http://www.gema.de/nl/102012/termine/filmmusiktage-sachsen-anhalt-2012.html
  8. ^ Report on the 3rd Filmmusiktage article in the Leipziger Volkszeitung
  9. ↑ http://www.mz-web.de/halle-saalekreis/halle-musikalisches-feuerwerk-zum-schluss-der-filmmusiktage,20640778,21224534.html
  10. ↑ Report on the Tautonium in the film Music Days Article Central German newspaper
  11. ↑ Deutschlandradio Kultur on the Maserclass - THE ORCHESTRA
  12. ↑ Participants of the 1st Film Music Days
  13. ↑ Contributors of the 2nd Film Music Days
  14. ↑ Speakers at the 3rd Film Music Days
  15. ↑ Speakers at the 4th Film Music Days
  16. ↑ Speakers at the 5th Film Music Days
  17. ↑ Speakers at the 6th Film Music Days
  18. ↑ Speakers at the 7th Film Music Days