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The Sony A7 SIII – a love hate relationship for professional videographers
Jonathan Moy de Vitry is a filmmaker and the founder of RightHere/RightNow Productions, a team of Geneva-based artist-technicians infusing the best elements of classic cinema into modern media formats, from event videos and social media campaigns to livestreams and...
Meet Bernard Duc, Swiss film composer and conductor
Bernard Duc is a Swiss film composer and conductor living in London. He is also the organiser of Perspective, an event for film and media composers that is held annually in London. Bernard Duc, if you had to name 3 characteristics a successful film composer needs in...
Meet Jeffrey Gaiser at Audiomachine Los Angeles
Jeffrey Gaiser is an award-winning film composer at Audiomachine, a production music company based in Los Angeles. Many of Audiomachine's tracks have been featured in theatrical movie trailers, including those of Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia, Iron Man, Venom and...
Quick Hack for Creating a Multiframe 3×2 Layout in Premiere Pro
My video project "Die Lockdown-Probe" is a satirical comedy about six musicians rehearsing online via Skype call. I wrote and filmed it during the coronavirus lockdown in spring 2020, and it officially premiered on New Year's Eve 2020 as part of the streaming program...
Meet Jonathan Coomes, sound mixer and sound designer in Hollywood
Jonathan Coomes is a sound designer and sound mixer in Los Angeles and an active member of Motion Picture Sound Editors and the Motion Picture Editors Guild. He has worked on numerous films, episodic series, and video games in a variety of roles. Epic Lab had the...
How music influences the perception of a scene
Exploring the effects of music and sound on the perception of motion picture has always fascinated me. This short clip is an example I put together just for fun, comparing two identical film excerpts with different music and sound effects applied. Depending on your...
Meet Esin Aydingoz, assistant music director for Disney’s DCappella & secretary for the Alliance for Women Film Composers
Esin Aydingoz is a Turkish film composer based in Los Angeles, who also happens to be the assistant music director for DCappella, Disney Music Group’s a cappella singing sensation featuring 7 world class vocalists. Known for their reimagined classics from the Disney...
Elephants Dream Rescored
Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch computer animated science fiction fantasy experimental short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The...
Epic Lab provides film music for Dance Festival Thun
As the Dance Festival Thun cannot happen this year due to the coronavirus crisis, a dance movie will be produced instead. Epic Lab is providing the film music for the movie that will be premiered in the cinema Rex in Thun beginning of May.
Color correction example with DaVinci Resolve
Take a quick look at a color correction example from our music video produced for Swiss cellist Albert Roman. Filming location was the church of Seewen (canton Solothurn), a popular recording and concert venue for classical musicians.
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Film music, motion picture & branding
We’re a small creative agency providing epic motion picture soundtracks, film production and screenwriting for TV commercials & film. Our members are all highly trained classical musicians. We are committed to providing you with excellent original soundtracks that let your film shine. We also record soundtracks written by other film composers for any original orchestral instrument. We operate out of Switzerland, but we are tightly related to the Los Angeles film industry and provide our services worldwide at competitive rates. Do not hesitate to get a quote.
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Team
Niklaus Vogel, film composer & creative director
Niklaus Vogel has been a violinist, conductor, composer and producer for many years.
He studied classical violin in Lucerne and Zurich and holds a “Diploma of Advanced Studies in Conducting”. In 2016 he graduated from Berklee College of Music in Valencia (Spain) and became the assistant of film composer Lucas Vidal (Fast and Furious) and producer Griffin Boice (Black Eyed Peas) in Los Angeles.
As a composer and producer he worked for bands such as The Souls, Chica Torpedo, Baschi, Henä, Gavin Rossdale, Amaia Montero, Elias Bendix and many others.
Some of his more recent projects were realized with the the Budapest Art Orchestra, the Sinfonietta Mosaique and the Taurida State Symphony Orchestra.
Niklaus Vogel conducted and recorded film music in the prestigious Air Studio in London and is a regular contributor to Film und Trailer Musik, Germany (CHROMAMUSIC). He lives with his family in Thun, Switzerland.
Peter Hauser, film composer & creative director
Peter Hauser derives from a musical family of long tradition. He graduated at Musikhochschule Stuttgart (violoncello and piano, major in orchestra «with excellence») and pursued further studies with world-renowned cellist Natalia Gutman. He was also a member of Gaudeamus Fondation Cologne, led by Manfred Niehaus.
As a cellist he performed with many big symphony orchestras in Germany, such as Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart, Orchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks Stuttgart, Symphonieorchester des Bayrischen Rundfunks, participating in tours through England, Spain, Japan and the USA. Since 1994 he is 2nd solo cellist of the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
Peter has a passion for electronic music and film music. He has the ability to create truly mesmerizing musical themes. His works are a tribute to his admired film composers Hans Zimmer, James Horner und John Williams. His motto: “No good movie without good film music.”
Andreas Graf, film director & creative director
Andreas Graf was born in Basel, Switzerland. He received his training at the New York Film Academy and holds a master’s degree in business and media from the university of Bern, Switzerland.
His short film “The Laws of Attraction”, starring Aaron Kuban, has won several awards and was accepted for competition at international film festivals. He has produced and directed short films in England, Spain and the USA. He lived in Los Angeles where he produced film content for start-up companies in the cleantech business and interviewed meterologists and NASA scientists about sustainability, climate change und earth science.
Andreas is also a multiple awarded classical concert cellist. He holds a master’s degree in performing arts from Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main, and is a member of the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
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Emre Türktopu, customer relations & marketing
Emre Türktopu completed his bachelor’s degree at Dokuz Eylül University State Conservatory, Izmir. He was accepted to Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, for his master’s degree.
As an oboist, he performed in important concert halls and festivals in Europe with various orchestras, such as Young Euro Classic Festival, Ravello Festival, Rudolfinum Concert Hall Prague, Smetana Hall, Vigadò Concert Hall Budapest, Die Glocke Bremen, Teatro Filarmonico Verona, etc.
He had the opportunity to participate in masterclasses with famous oboe artists. During his education, he received the support of important foundations and won degrees from various competitions.
He continues to improve himself in the field of “Music Business and Management” as well as continuing his master’s degree at Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana.
Collaboration with artclassic for best live recordings
In order to ensure the highest quality standards for live recordings we are collaborating with artclassic. Artclassic takes pride in working with some of the most renowned classical artists and ensembles in Switzerland.
In addition to its expertise in sound recording and sound engineering, artclassic is offering various editing services for motion picture sound including dubbing, time-twist editing and audio mixing in stereo and 5.1 surround sound.
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