Jo Blankenburg

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Jo Blankenburg , originally Jochen Fuchs, (born March 18, 1972 in Kulmbach ) is a German composer . He became known for soundtracks for feature films and television films, trailers, short films and documentaries . He lives and works in Los Angeles .

Life

Jo Blankenburg started playing the piano and drums at the age of six . As a teenager he played in two jazz bands. He went to New York City for two years , composed and arranged music in the genres of funk , soul and rhythm and blues and worked with various New York musicians.

He became better known through a prize at the “MTV Europe Songwriting Contest” and was able to conclude contracts with Warner Chappell Germany and Warner Brothers Music . Since 2005, Jo Blankenburg has been composing and arranging soundtracks for various formats, such as TV series, trailers and films. In 2006 he graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston . In 2007 he went to Auckland ( New Zealand ) and signed an exclusive contract with the Motion Picture Advertising Company Immediate Music, founded by Jeff Fayman and Yoav Goren, with whom he has worked since then.

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His compositions are stylistically assigned to so-called epic music , which is aimed at triggering certain feelings, for example in the context of the soundtracks for films. His works are orchestral and integrate African chants and percussion, jazz, rock , funk, live instruments as well as electronic sound generation, besides he wrote pure piano music . His compositions are also stylistically based on the respective task or topic. Many of his tracks can be heard in the trailers of Hollywood productions, such as B. 300: Rise of an Empire , The Hunger Games , Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , X-Men: First Class , Lincoln , Hitchcock , How To Train Your Dragon, and The Wolfman .

engagement

Together with his brother, Andy Fox (Andreas Fuchs), Jo Blankenburg produced a multimedia project for the 61st Berlin Film Festival 2011, "Oil Spill - The Human Ueberfluss" , which reflects the fate of the oil-contaminated birds of the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico through the artistic implementation with seven women who were doused with oil and whose reactions were recorded on film.

In 2013, Jo Blankenburg started together with Maya Haddi, Andy Fox and Nitish Raina an initiative to help victims of the war in Syria under the event title “The Rebirth” . The film shows uninterpreted scenes from Syria , which are accompanied by Blankenburg's music.

Trailer Music

Music videos, music for short films and documentaries

  • 2005: The World Beneath (short film)
  • 2005: Ticket (documentary)
  • 2006: Poetry (documentary)
  • 2006: Stages (film)
  • 2007: Vahveraasio (music video)
  • 2007: Omega99 (short film)
  • 2007: Planet Earth Forever (music video)
  • 2008: Squalid (short film)
  • 2008: Four orchestral pieces
  • 2009: Music for Congolese opera
  • 2009: Theme music for World of Wearable Art
  • 2010: Music for Lord of the Rings
  • 2011: Audio-visual project Oil Spill at the Berlin Film Festival
  • 2011: Below The Surface , music for the documentary The Human Experience
  • 2011: Anamnesis (short film)
  • 2019: Good Luck (short film)

Discography

  • 2007: Floatovations (solo album)
  • 2008: The Feather Dance (solo album)
  • 2011: The Human Experience
  • 2012: Elysium
  • 2013: The Rebirth
  • 2015: Kaleidoscope
  • 2015: The Feather Dance (piano solo)
  • 2016: Valkyrie
  • 2017: Cronos

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography Jo Blankenburg on positionmusic , (English), accessed on October 16, 2016
  2. ^ Biography, Website Jo Blankenburg , (English), accessed on October 16, 2016
  3. ↑ Events on website jo Blankenburg ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / joblankenburg.com
  4. ^ Project page Oil Spill - The Human Ueberfluss , accessed on October 18, 2016
  5. ↑ Article on Surfersmag.de , accessed on October 18, 2016
  6. ↑ s. Events on the Jo Blankenburg website ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2016 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. , (English), accessed October 17, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / joblankenburg.com
personal data
SURNAME Blankenburg, Jo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuchs, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach