A Talking Piano (literally)

Love it – and a very, very interesting finding, since it breaks down the border between music and language – in a more then obvious way.

2001 – the real music

So … I came across this hilarious youtube video … where the talented Portsmouth Sinfonia Highschool orchestra is playing their version of the famous 2001 theme by Richard Strauss (I love Alex North original score too, but Kubrick dissed it) … Anyway … The video made me laugh, but also made me think that this is actually a great, great version of the piece. The beginning of 2001 is all about the dawn of humanity and how it all started – so to a certain degree – the music should also represent this, which the Portmouth Sinfonia really seems to embrace in its full glory.

All from the mouth

This is pure inspiration. One superb human beat boxer and two Korg Chaos pads in happy reunion!

Otherworldly Mashup

I  just saw the most amazingly, crazy, intelligent, wonderful, brilliant, great video on the tube. It is stunning how much you can get out of so little …

Music for the charts … stockcharts

Microsoft Songsmith vs current economy …

A piece with Steven Tavaglione

I am proud, humbled and excited to announce I composed a music piece for tonehammer using a variety of alternative instruments. The piece features Steven Tavaglione on EWI. I am simply shocked by his gifts as a musician, sound designer and general approach to music. So please enjoy and head to tonehammer if you wanna to know more about the demo.

Download: mp3 demo
Demo by Troels Folmann and Steven Tavaglione

Interview w/ Tracksounds

It is my great pleasure to present a recent interview between my dear friend Colin O’ Malley and myself. The interview goes in-depth on our collaboration on Tomb Raider Underworld and the general process between audio director and composers.

You can download by clicking here:

Source and courtesy: http://www.tracksounds.com/

Tomb Raider Underworld Teaser Trailer

We just released up our Tomb Raider Underworld Teaser Trailer, which has been a very complicated journey, since the density of animation and FX were massive. The trailer was made by Blur studios in LA and it is – hands down – one of the best game trailers I have ever seen, since its got many subtle hints for fans of the franchise. Blur originally used Mozart’s lacrimosa as a temporary piece and when I heard it … my only comment was: “Don’t change a single note…”. Who said music supervision was hard?

or watch HD version by clicking here

Singing in the Rain

It is pretty hard to do great and original remixes, but it happens sometimes… like Funkstars Deluxe remix of Bob Marley or JXLs remix of Elvis or Mint Royales remix of Gene Kelly. However its even more awesome when it involves motion captured garbage robots…

What You Won’t Do For Love

So I have heard this song (see video below) multiple times on the radio and its really one of my all time smooth jazz favorites. The song: “What You Won’t Do For Love” was written back in 1978 and its still – hands down – one of the most groovy pieces of music I have ever heard and for the following reasons:

1. The song fits the singer. Its obviously his song and so many beautiful subtle nuances in his performance (despite pseudo mullet, bad dress code and doubtful dance moves). Lyrics are basic, but really encapsulate the essence.

2. The baseline groove with drums/perc, rhodes, guitar and bass is extremely tempered, yet alive and sophisticated in detail. Its wonderful to see a backing group allowing space for everybody to burn through in a subtle powerful way. A very hard thing to do and something that takes years of practice and musical humbleness.

3. The underlying supporting strings generates a nice slight, soft, sadness to the piece (more audible in original piece).

4. The trumpet riff is gorgeous, soft, sexy and instantly catchy.