Do you know the evolution of the Piano? Which were the instruments that preceded it? In the following video you have a full explanation about his history. Enjoy it!
Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) is one of the most famous film composers of the 21st century. He was born in Holland in 1967 and in his youth, he was a rock and electronic music player in several bands ( Fear Factory, Dog eat dog ...) In the middle of the 90s, he started his productions for video games and films. At that time, his friends used to call him “Junkie”, because he was addicted to work in his production studio, were he spent a lot of his time. At the same time, he put his focus on electronic dance music, playing in night clubs. In 1997 he won the Grand Prix to the best producer of house music in his home country. Some of his albums were among others Big sound of the drags , Saturday night teenage kick , Radio JXL , etc. In 2003 he decided to move to Los Angeles, California, the city of the best film studios where he became into a great film composer. Some of his works in this field include: 300: Rise of an empire (2014) Divergent (2014) Mad Max: Fury Ro...
Archaeological evidence known at this point of time report that the origin of the artistic activity dates back from more than 64,000 years, being its creator the homo neanderthalensis . In particular -and according to Science review- these are cave paintings in three Spanish caves located in Cantabria, Caceres and Malaga. Since then and to present day, man has expressed, from different artistic points of view, all the creativity that he has been able -or we would say, has had the need- to transmit. From our origins, the contact, relationship, and interaction with nature have been and are evident. Many artists have benefited from that to create their work in any field, either pictorial, literary, sculpture, musical, cinematographic, etc. It would be a very intense and arduous study to refer to all these areas so, in this article, we are going to focus on the inspiration that some great composers, who preceded us, found in ...
This month we want to talk about a very young film composer, who won several awards last year with the score for the musical film La la Land: The city of stars; we refer to Justin Hurwitz. He was born on 22 January, 1985 in Los Angeles - California. His parents are Ken Hurwitz and Gail Hurwitz, writer and classical dancer, respectively. Justin began to play piano at the age of six and composed his first song when he reached ten. In 1998 his family moved to Wisconsin and he joined Nicolet High School. During this time, he took some lessons with pianist Stefanie Jacob at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee. Some years later, he attended Harvard University, where he was a classmate of the director Damien Chazelle. Both collaborated at that time in several projects together: (2003) Chester French: An indi-pop band formed by David-Andrew Wallach (vocalist), Maxwell Drummey (multi-instrumentalist), Damien Chazelle (drummer), Michael Judge (bassist) and Justin Hurwitz...
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