Six months after the release of the film Beaufort, Adar released the soundtrack album which featured slightly different musical arrangements. The monotonous, claustrophobic music was described by many critics as “music for William Basinski fans”.
Music from Home (ep)
The soundtrack for Uri Katzenstein’s video art work presented in the 2001 Venice Biennale. Electro-acoustic experimental music by Ishai Adar and Binya Reches.
Label: Fact Records, 2001
The Golem soundtrack
In addition to the genuine show that featured live music during the screening of the silent movie, Sheer Sofer and Ishai Adar released the soundtrack, recorded in Ishai’s studio in 2002. Sheer plays here Tibetan bowls, gongs, percussion, and world string instruments, and sings overtones, with Ishai at the computer and the digital mixing console.
Year Zero – Original Soundtrack
Soundtrack of the film Year Zero, including both songs from the film and Ishai’s original neo-classical music, performed by a string quartet, piano and bass clarinet (quartet arrangement by Yoni Silver).
Here’s another track from this soundtrack:
The Garden
Video art work by Uri Katzenstein. Ishai created the music (co written by Uri Katzenstein) and designed the soundtrack, with squeaky violins that converse with a voyager robot – a moving platform that rolls and hovers among the characters that enter and exit the scene.
The film was also included in the exhibition Hunger in the Israeli Center for Digital Art.
Azoi
Another video By Uri Katzenstein with continuous elements from “The Garden”. The music and sound design here are totally different. Busting heavy metal guitar, jumpy elements and lot’s of amusing distorted sound.
La la Major
A sound installation by Uri Katzenstein & Ishai Adar. La La Major is a cacophonous sound installation that portrays a local landscape using music as its raw material. It features 24 speakers hung wall-to-wall resembling a loose rope bridge and playing 24 different pieces of music simultaneously. In order to put together a local musical landscape, Ishai and Uri Katzenstein used only Israeli music pieces. The spectators stood facing the bridge and listened to the humming it produced, while watching a video screening that showed diagrams of the sound waves. The result is a sound-and-sculptural-element installation that can be localized in various places around the world.
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Exhibited in Herzliya Museum, 2007.
Home
A Video art installation by Uri Katzenstein. The project used 11 video projections screened simultaneously. One of Ishai’s many joint projects with visual artist and musician Uri Katzenstein. Ishai designed the soundtrack and composed the music together with Binya Reches. Home represented Israel in the 2001 Venice Biennale.
A Film Unfinished (Germany/Israel 2010)
Yael Hersonski’s acclaimed, award-winning film is an extraordinary documentary which tells the story of a Nazi propaganda film shot – but never completed – in the Warsaw Ghetto on 1942. Hersonski’s film tracks down the actual events of that time and reconstructs the “reality” of the film from an original perspective. The Nazis’ footage remained silent, allowing for the creation of a new relationship between image and sound – made up of picturesque, surreal music performed by numerous artists and instruments.
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
And on the Third Day (Israel 2011)
First film directed by the much esteemed actor Moshe Ivgy. Three days in the lives of seven different characters, who are caught in a chain of events leading to a point of no return. While the synopsis recalls that of Year Zero, the soundtrack is utterly different and resembles much more that of Beaufort: electronic music with bits and pieces of electric guitars, which lends the film its hidden beat and undertone.
Nominated for the 2010 Ophir Award for Best Music.
Director: Moshe Ivgy
Editing: Zohar Sela
Cinematography: Yoram Millo
Sound design: Alex Claude
Production: UCM