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.
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.
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.
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
A film by Joseph Cedar, recounting the story of the last remaining soldiers on the Beaufort outpost on the eve of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon. Unlike the dramatic, sometimes bombastic soundtrack that accompanies most war films, Beaufort echoes with heavy, hypnotic electronic music that conveys the inherent claustrophobia of the place and circumstances. The soundtrack was composed, mixed and produced in Ishai’s studio to the sound of sirens and radio reports from the frontlines of the second Lebanon war, which took place at the same time the film was produced.
Awards and nominations:
Silver Bear for Best Director, 2007 International Berlin Film Festival
Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film
2007 Ophir Awards (Israeli Academy) for Best Sound, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction
Nominated for the 2007 Ophir Awards for Best Film, Best Music and additional categories
Direction: Joseph Cedar
Editing: Zohar Sela
Cinematography: Ofer Inov
Sound design: Alex Claude
Production: David Mandil, Chilik Michaeli & David Silber
An elaborate film by Joseph Pitchhadze, presenting the stories of seven previously unrelated people, whose lives undergo various changes due to fateful encounters. The soundtrack features neo-classical music performed by a string quartet, piano and bass clarinet (quartet arrangement by Yoni Silver).
Awards and nominations:
2004 Ophir Award for Best Sound
Nominated for the 2004 Ophir Awards for Best Music and additional categories
Director: Joseph Pitchhadze
Editing: Dov Steuer
Cinematography: Itay Ne’eman
Sound design and music mixing: Gil Toren
Production: Lior Shefer, Joseph Pitchhadze & Dov Stoyer
Project by the Israel Goethe Institute: live music played during the screening of the classic 1920 silent movie. Cooperation between Ishai and Sheer Sofer, who plays here a multitude of world instruments and also contributes harmonic overtone singing. The result is modern classical music that combines atonal foundations and pagan elements, and a fascinating encounter between digital arrangements, sampled sounds and live performance. jerusalem cinematheque 2002.
