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Film Score und Sound Design for 'Woher wissen wir das?'

What we did

  • Film Score Composition 

  • Film Score Production 

Credits

  • Director: Dirk Neumann

  • Editorial SWR: Kirsten Praller

  • Production: SWR

  • Film Score: Frank Schreiber

  • Sound Design: Frank Schreiber

  • Foleys & add. Sound Design: Karl Atteln

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The new SWR series "Woher wissen wir das?" is dedicated to scientific research and the knowledge gained from it. In the six episodes of the first season, everything revolves around human evolution.

For example, we learn that the Neanderthals were not ancestors but companions of modern humans and also interbred with them, which is why every human alive today outside Africa carries a certain percentage of Neanderthal genes. Amazing - but how do we know that?

Music from the Stone Age

The film music in the series is as varied as the different scientific methods used to unravel such mysteries. Archaic music is used for excavations and scenes in which the Stone Age becomes visible or tangible in the film: instruments such as bone flutes, buzzing woods, stone, wood or fur percussion, sinew bows or animal horns set the tone here and create a musical vibe that brings the prehistoric age of mankind to life.

The music for modern laboratory scenes or analysis methods, on the other hand, bears stylistic characteristics of the present. For example, digital and analog synthesizers are used for this film music, often accompanied by electronic beats.

Details by sound design and Foley

From small brushstrokes during the excavations, to animations, to spears thrown in slow motion - all these scenes are made audible by an organic sound design and detailed Foleys. The Foleys and part of the sound design were created by Karl Atteln.