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Moon in the 12th House

I had the rare privilege to work with the Israeli Camerata Jerusalem orchestra and its outstanding conductor, Shmuel Elbaz, who also teaches in our Sound and Music for Cinema program at the Sapir college. This is Dorit Hakim’s debut feature film about a pair of estranged Israeli sisters who reunite under difficult circumstances. This soundtrack is a combination of classical music and electronics.

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Shmuel Elbaz and the Israel Camerata Jerusalem with me on stage during a recording session for the “Moon in the 12th house” soundtrack. Picture by Ran Mendelson. 

 

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Recent Lectures and Workshops

Music As a Sound Design Element

February 2014,  Satyajit Ray Film & Television Institute: SRFTI, Kolkata India

Ishai Adar's Master Class at the Srfti

                  Photo by Chia Kuen

Strategies of Narrative Creation in Film Sound & Music

 A one week workshop focusing on sound design as a story teller and music.

Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW),  Hamburg, May 2014

More & Recent

The Hidden Approach to Film Scoring – Acum Workshops

A three meetings workshop for musicians, revealing some of the hidden strategies of film scoring.

July 2014,  Ono School of Music, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Film Unfinished – Evolution of Music Concept

 Jewish film festival (festival of tolerance), Zagreb, Croatia.  May 2011

Music and UX – Musical Functions in the UX Context

 UXPA Israel  convention, google campus, December 2013.

Ongoing courses at the Sapir college Soundtrack Department & Sam Spiegel Film School

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Princess

I’m pleased to announce the release of “Princess“. Tali Shalom Ezer’s debut feature. My work here presents a totally new approach to scoring. Lots of guitars and even a pop song written together with Elite Avner Marriott who also contributes the vocals.
The soundtrack is the Latest award winner of the “best music” category at the Haggiag competition in the Jerusalem Film Festival. The film also won for best female actor, cinematography and best film!
Here’s the theme song:

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Borderline Case

A new work by the artist Uri Katzenstein. As usual I’m responsible for the sound of the “creature” shown here. A completely useless hardworker robot. The work was originally shown in the “about stupidity” exhibition at the Petah Tikva museum, 2013.

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Auschwitz Jewish Pavilion – The Ideology Room


The Ideology Room is one of many rooms at the new, permanent exhibition about the Jewish Holocaust, in the former Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Housed in a red brick barracks known as Cell Block 27,The Jewish Memorial Pavilion opened its doors in June 2013.
In this project I was working alongside the Studio de-Langa team of architects, Prof. Adi Stern (head of Visual Communication department at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design), designer Ori succary and Artist Yael Burstein.
The purpose of this room is to illustrate the Nazi ideology by using all senses. Most of the soundtrack is made up form the speeches that appear on the video screens. The rest is made from sounds originating in parades and ceremonies from the Nazi period.

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Bethlehem

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I am very pleased to announce a new film I soundtracked, Yuval Adler’s debut feature, “Betlehem“. This is my most electronic soundtrack to date: harsh electronic noises blended with soft pads and orchestral arrangements. This soundtrack is somehow in contradiction with the tone and atmosphere of the film, which could be described as “Middle-Eastern with a raw touch”. “Bethlehem” tells the story of the complex relationship between an Israeli Secret Service officer and his teenage Palestinian informant, bouncing back and forth between conflicting points of view.
Bethlehem is turning out be the Israeli film to watch in 2013: it is the winner of the Venice Days section in the Venice Film Festival, the winner at the Haifa film festival (best movie and best first actor) and the big winner in the Israel Academy Awards (the “Ofir” award), sweeping the best movie, best director, best leading actor, best script, best editing and best casting categories. Yeah!!

Here’s a Sample:

Director: Yuval Adler
Cast: Tsahi Halevi, Sahdi Marei, Haitham Omari
Produced by: Pie films

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Before The Revolution

The soundtrack of Dan Shadur’s debut documentary, “Before The Revolution”, is an eclectic work that combines war drums with mysterious electronic motives, and even some rock ballads too!!!
This 60-minute documentary tells the story of the prosperous and well-connected Israeli community in Tehran before the Islamic revolution of 1979. This is a unique soundtrack for me, because the music is “out front”, and not a background canvas as it is usually is.

Director: Dan Shadur
Produced by: Heymann Brothers films
editor: Nili feller

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A Film Unfinished

My post WWII score to Yael Hersonski’s acclaimed, award-winning film.

Awards and nominations:

World Cinema Documentary Film Editing Award, Sundance Film Festival
Nominated for Sundance Grand Jury Prize for World Documentary Cinema, Satellite Award (International Press Academy) For Best Documentary Motion Picture

Director: Yael Hersonski

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Aya (Israel/France 2012)

Composing the music for the film “Aya”, was a unique work process. Although the movie is only 40 minutes long and contains only 2 music pieces, the formation of musical direction was an intense research. The credit to this experience goes to to the creators of the film, Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis who redefined perfectionism for me.

The film is the story of Two strangers that meet at an airport unexpectedly. He mistakenly assumes her to be his assigned driver. She, enchanted by the possibilities of the random encounter, does not hurry to prove him wrong..
Aya is the winner at the Israel academy awards as the best short film for 2013.

Directors: Oded binnun & mihal Brezis
With: Sarah Adler, Ulrich Thomsen
Editing: Dov Steuer
Sound design: Gil Toren
Production: Pablo Mehler, Yael Abecassis, Hillel Roseman, Casis films