And if you live somewhere close to Salzburg, Austria, you'll soon have the opportunity to listen to a live interview with Sascha (and his music) on the local radio station Radiofabrik, broadcast next Sunday, May 15th, from 4pm to 5pm.

Gave fun!

The film will be presented (in a German-dubbed version) in the major multiplexes, and (in its original English version) in the smaller, arthouse-oriented movie theatres throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

The film music, however, will be the same in both language versions—unaltered and as good as it gets ;-)

Also, the film will appear at the 32nd Biberacher Filmfestspiele, on November 4th and 5th, and the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography "PlusCameraImage" Between November 27th and December 4th, 2010.

We'll keep you updated on the international release outside the German-speaking countries. Until then, have fun browsing the English and German website or visit the movie on facebook!

Enjoy!

SOUTH will be presented within the “Cine International” section, together with only 13 other new films by such illustrious directors as Sam Mendes, Jacques Audiard, Michael Haneke and Ethan and Joel Coen.

The film makers will be present at the festival, so, if you happen to be in Colombia from February 25 to March 5, pay them a visit!

A short (more in-detail) explanation of how this works can be found here.

A rough mockup of the music can listended to here.

The first performance of the sonata is scheduled for spring 2010 in Vienna. We'll keep you updated on date and venue!

If you want to get an impression of the movie and the music, please visit the brand new website!

All the main actors will be present for the premiere, as will directors and composer.

See you in Hof then this week!

Sascha Selke’s score (working title "The Orange Paper") was recorded at Shaw Studios in Hong Kong under the baton of his long-time friend and collaborator Robert Ellis-Geiger, who also contributed additional music to the film. Check out Robert’s website for some footage of the recording sessions!

Profiting from his experience in translating non-musical structures into music (such as in his Kepler opera Johannes or in his topographical analysis for the music for Rogner Bad Blumau), the first piece – the “Evolution Sonata” for string quartet and piano – will be first performed in Autumn 2009 in Vienna and will depict the evolution of simple amino acid sequences into complex life forms in terms of music.

Would you like to hear evolution humming at work? Then don't miss the performance! (Or hear the piece on this website… – coming up soon!

Look out for the film appearing at your local movie theatre soon!

So if you missed it on Sunday, have a listen now and enjoy!

2009 is still young, and already it brings good news!

On January 11, 05.05 pm CET (i.e. Greenwich+1), the local radiostation "Radiofabrik" will broadcast a live feature on Sascha Selke in their show "artarium". Sascha will be talking about past and current film music projects and, of course, play plenty of his music.

For all those of you who are not fortunate enough to live within the 50 meter broadcasting range of the station: you can also check out the livestream.

So, hear you there!

Isabel Grünwalds documentary "Brüder", music written by Sascha Selke, has been invited to the prestigious Hofer Filmtage festival and will screen there from October 21st till october 26th, 2008. The film will then travel to the 1001 Documentary Film Festival in Istanbul (November 13–19, 2008) and then show at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam (November 20–30, 2008).

Check it out if you get a chance and enjoy the film, enjoy the music!

Sascha Selke has just returned from Hong Kong, where he recorded the orchestral score for “The Orange Paper” (Working Title) with musicians from the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra at new Shaw Studios, currently the most advanced recording facilities in the world.

Excerpts from the music will be on our website as soon as the film is out, and until then you can entertain yourself with two articles that the South China Morning Post, the biggest English-speaking Newspaper in South East Asia, dedicated to the event: South China Morning Post

For the scoring session we took advantage of the phenomal production services of VisionSonics Ltd. Check out VisionSonics for some footage of the scoring session, featuring composer and VisionSonics founder Robert Ellis-Geiger conducting the string section, which will later be overdubbed with piano and percussion.

Sascha Selke is currently working on the final score for “The Orange Paper” (Working Title). 2–3 minutes of new music are written and mocked-up every day, but due to copyright reasons we cannot put them on the website until the movie is out.

Some other, smaller projects, though, are also in the pipeline, and we will soon put some new music up, so you can get an impression of what's going on right now.

So stay tuned!

Some of the cues from German film maker Isabel Grünwald’s documentary “Brüder” (Brothers) – music by Sascha Selke – which premiered at the Bolzano Documentary Film Festival in Italy on September 22, can now be listened to here.

Website Update and Redesign

Our website has been equipped with some cool new features: Besides some new stuff in the background, the interface has been streamlined, and you can now look up old news (strange concept, though, “old news”) and subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the newsletter online.

Go there and have fun!

Sascha Selke orchestrates "After this our Exile" in Hong Kong

In early January 2007, Sascha Selke was contracted to orchestrate Hong Kong based composer Robert Ellis-Geiger’s score for “After this our Exile”. The music, which so far existed only as a computer generated mockup for piano, violin and cello, was recorded in Sascha Selke’s version for full 86-piece orchestra in a scoring session with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on February 20-22, 2007. Composer and orchestrator were both present in Hong Kong for this event. A thorough documentary of the scoring session is in preparationa and will soon be available on http://musicsound.net