music +++ sound +++ design
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trailer for my closing project. credits to all my colleagues and teammates who made this possible. my field of responsibility in this project: helping out at the shooting, on set recording, sound editing and synchronisation.
more infos coming soon.
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this was my last project as trainee at instant records. as i know the commercial was supposed to have a really creative concept so it might win prices at diverse competitions. from my point of view it is kind of strange (porn) but somehow funny though. mike did the voice recordings, i did the whole audio editing, the sound effects and the finishing.
be aware, explicit content ;-)
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due to the fact of copyright infringements we had to do a soundalike for one of our clients at instant records. if i remember correctly the origianl music was a snippet of a track by apollo 440. and because breakbeat is one of my passions in electronic music i demanded on doing the job ;-)
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the most exciting project at my internship at instant records was doing the score for a commercial for a board game by the zoch company. for the music they wanted a pirates of the caribbean soundalike so i did one. sebastian improved the final mix and thogether we did most of the sound design. jörg did the voice recordings and the finishing. due to the fact that i was part of every step of the production process i gained a lot of experiences which was really cool.
martin k. – tobago (music only)
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every year sony ericsson is doing a web promotion with a special topic where they give away ringtones and themes for mobile phones for free. the topic this year was everything related to undercover agents like james bond. at instant records we had to do the ringtone stuff so everyone who wasn’t busy with another project did some pitches. here are the two i did.
martin k. – chillout agent
(many thanks to mike for the great wah-wah guitar line :-)
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martin k. – spectacular agent
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my first internship project at instant records was doing the sound design together with mike for a web commercial by garmin germany. all in all we did three different layouts, here is the one i like most.
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royal to the royal is the title for this filmlet directed and produced by veree lynn puhm and martin kenzel. it is a commercial for a bavarian beer brand and was entered at the könig ludwig trophy at munich. i did everything sound related. music, sound design and voice recording. doing music in the style of the late middle ages was quite a challenge but high quality sampler instruments and a midi file from the internet did the magic ;-)
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this was my entry for a sound design competition hosted by the blastwavefx company. the condition for doing the sound design was to use only a bunch of sound effects provided by blastwavefx so every participator had the same source material which was quite exciting.
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this is the spring 2009 showreel of 3d and compositing artist martin kenzel. i did sound design and music for some of his work and featured them before.
and because he likes my track “maybe nothing” i adaptet it a littlebit for him so that it fits to the length of his reel. enjoy :-)
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the guys from the video department had to do some kind of short logo animation for their postproduction class. i did music and sounddesign for two of them.
the first one is from judith “judy” landkammer.
the second one is from maximilian “maxi” widmaier.
(sorry for stretching cropping the video from 4:3 to 16:9 ;-)
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a corporate video for the parkour sport. this filmlet ist the qualification project two of the movie artists fabian uitz and ronald ernst.
wikipedia: parkour is a discipline with the aim of moving from one point to another as smoothly, efficiently and quickly as possible using principally the abilities of the human body, but is also built on a philosophical premise. parkour’s focus is on how any obstacle is dealt with, whether the obstacle be either physical or mental.
since there was no original audio at all from the shooting i had to do the music and the whole sound design from scratch. but at least i’ve to say that i’m very proud of the results of my work. i was able to work out the ideas of the two producers, in return they adapt the cut really cool to the music. all in all an absolutely nice job done.
(just the credits are missing at the moment ;-)
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the story about a fashion designer controlling a factory full of draftsmen doing sketches for him in the late 19th century.
it’s the qualification project two of the 3d artists michael fuchs, markus huber, martin kenzel and patrick topf. verena puhm did the cut, myself the music and the sound design.
the music is rather minimalistic and mainly made out of machinery noises. deep pads emphasize the mood of the pictures, the whole setting is rounded up with decent atmos and sounds.
for the “werkschau” event, where multimediaart students of the university of applied sciences salzburg show their work and which is organized by colleagues of mine, i wanted to create some generative illustrative art as additional visual input for one of my music tracks.
structure synth is a wonderful piece of software and with the nice nabla scheme eisen script i randomly got some wonderful 3d objects. i picked one of those and rendered it out, but i just took the ambient occlusion pass. finally three images were printed out with a plotter at a nice size :-)
a few seconds video footage from the “werkschau” event (thx to ronald ernst)!
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two tracks done for the “Elektronik-Land 2009″ music contest. nearly every genre was allowed but the computer had to be the main tool for composing.
the first track is a remix of the song “well” from my friend and colleague florian (“brad”) jindra. his description of the track (in german):
Well ist eine stimmungsvolle Mischung aus entfremdetem Beat, kristallklarem, melancholischem Gesang und Glitch Elementen, die in einer einzigartigen, weiten Klangwelt aufblühen und den Zuhörer zu entführen versuchen.
florian jindra – well (martin k. remix)
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the second track is a combination of drum’n'bass with glitch elements. german description:
Microcosm soll den Zuhörer in einen Sound-Kosmos entführen, in dem kurze abstrahierte Klänge den Ton angeben. Aufbauend auf solidem Breakbeat gepaart mit subtilen Glitch-Elementen lassen ausschweifende Hintergrundgeräusche eine faszinierende Klangwelt entstehen.
martin k. – microcosm
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another short animation by martin kenzel done for his hand over for animation class.
and because 3d artists always run out of time due to technical adjustments and rendering stuff i got the video the night before the deadline. anyway i still had time to experience a little bit an to do some quick recordings.
but it’s worth to mention that you shouldn’t take the video tooo serious ;-)
and well, i think he had something about computer games and homeshopping in mind when he did the project… strange!
another drum’n'bass track. smooth with elements of jazz and monotonous drums.
martin k. – maybe nothing
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due to new guidelines for the multimediaart 3d animation major at the university of applied sciences salzburg, the guys there have to do amongst others a logo animation. i did the sounddesign for the logo animation of my friend and colleague martin kenzel.
i really like the animation, it's short and firm. so it was a funny job.
this track was done for the voixtronik remix contest which was organized by the “salzburger volksliedwerk” because of their 100th anniversary. it’s a mashup of minimal electronic beats with processed yodeling. rather short and experimental.
memo to myself: don’t use the word “ambient” in track titles too much ;-)
martin k. – ambient hoidiria
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this one minute stop motion filmlet was directed and produced by veree lynn puhm and martin kenzel. it’s the winner of a video contest by the german fluter magazine for political education in the course of the u.s. presidental elections 2008.
my job was to do everything sound releated in this animation. i did the sound design and the mix, just the music was a ready loop i split and stretched up to the time of 60 seconds.
all in all i think it turned out very well, so enjoy the video :-)
in the second term 3d course of my studies we had to do some creature with focus on subdivision modelling. to pass it would’ve been sufficient to redo a certain video tutorial. but after a while, helping some colleagues, i couldn’t stand the creature from the tutorial anymore. so i decided to create my own animal, some kind of fantasy mantis with a picture from the web as draft. the textures were mainly done from photos of leaves.
another 3d-rendering aimed to be a wallpaper. mostly done with deformed objects arranged manually and a littlebit postprocessing on the rendering.
it’s proofed. designers and multimedia artists don’t just sit in front of their computers. sometimes they go out and do crazy things :-)
“invertising” is the title for my first qualification project for the audio department at the multimediaart course of studies. completly done from radio ad samples shreddered through reaktor. very experimental.
german description:
Was kommt heraus, wenn man die Wörter „Invert“ und „Advertising“ kombiniert? Ein Wortspiel, welches Bezug zum Inhalt erahnen lässt. Ein auditives Werk mit Anspruch. Radiowerbung aus dem Kontext reißend stellt dieser Track Konsumwahn auf subversive Art und Weise in Frage. Stilelemente wie Monotonie und Repetition stehen für Charakteristika des Konsumismus und der Werbung. Und trotzdem ist alles in Bewegung, entwickelt sich. Arhythmisch, oder doch nicht? Aber mit Sicherheit gegen den Mainstream.
martin k. – invertising
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“das mädchen von veeren” is the qualification project one of veree lynn puhm. it’s a short movie about the persecution of jews in the netherlands during world war ii. german description:
“Das Mädchen von Veeren” ist ein Kurzfilm von Veree Lynn Puhm. Das Drama hat die Judenverfolgung im von den Nationalsozialisten besetzten Holland im Zweiten Weltkrieg zum Thema. Das kleine jüdische Mädchen Chaya de Vroon fällt dem nationalsozialistischen Machtapparat im Folge der Kriegsjahre zum Opfer. Dennoch kann sich das kleine Mädchen von der Welt, die sie kannte, nicht lösen und irrt als Seele in den Trümmern der Kriegsfolgen umher. Dabei hat sich Chaya eine Aufgabe selbst auferlegt: Sie möchte die jüdische Bevölkerung, zu der auch sie einst zählte, von ihrer Brandmarkung durch den Judenstern erlösen, indem sie diese einsammelt und zu einem großen Sternenhimmel in ihrem Zimmer erbaut.
i did everything sound related, mainly cleaning the mic lines from background noise like airplanes and i did the sound design in general. in addition i was helping out some days at the shooting, carrying things around, doing the lighting and boom-operating a little bit. as this was my very first movie project, it was really exhausting and stressful but i got a lot of experience though.
(the clip above shows just the first two minutes of the movie. if you want to see it in full length, please visit youtube – part one and part two. but the quality is really crappy…)
in second term we had to do some posters in typo class about famous fonts and/or their creators. here are my three designs.
some postcard like pictures of haarlem beach shot during a short trip to amsterdam.
my first 3d project ever where i did everything from modelling to texturing and rendering. it took quite a long time but with the help of our 3d-tutor daniel übleis it tourned out well :-)
my track for first term audio class inspired by the song “space bunny” from “black sun empire”. at this point i seriousely thought about focusing on audio as major. and hey, everybody has to start somewhere ;-)
martin k. – ambient hop
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here are three illustrations i did for my multimediaart application project. the application issue was “untergrund” (underground).
if i remember correctly i wrote in my written application that i wanted to show different manifestations of underground, especially the ones that aren’t recognizable instantly.
some old flyers i did for the “digital nation” event series which i organized with adrian held.
rather old abstract pictures of a demolition site which was located nearby my home.
