SOUND DESIGN REEL
For video artworks by the artists Zheng Bo, Christin Berg, Tamar Guimarães, and Wolfgang Georgsdorf, I developed the music and sound design. My aim was for the sound to feel like it grows out of the image itself. I chose material that evolves from the inner world of the imagery as a foundation, which allowed me to introduce foreign, atmospheric sound material that opens up associations to the most bizarre extent without ever losing credibility. To merge sound and image, I always relate the rhythmic structures of the sound design to the movements within the scenes and to the edit. I work with both my own recordings and material from existing archives and sound libraries. I use techniques such as granular synthesis, to generate and shape sound layers from the original material, and sidechaining, to blend them with additional atmospheric sounds. The video artworks were shown at museums and festivals including Rencontres Internationales, Paris (FR), Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz (AT), and Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE). Visitor feedback frequently highlighted the sound as particularly noteworthy.