"Giant and the Seed" Trailer now online!

The Trailer for the animation film "Giant and the Seed" is now available on youtube. It was a magical experience writing music for this project. We were lucky to record the music with a string quartet, which gave the film a both unique and intimate character. The sound of 4 string players in one room can be extremely versatile. We used the full range of possibilities in the film. Harsh tremolos, soft melodic lines - even an extremely dissonant downtuned part were part of the soundtrack.

Director, Art Director: Sara Shabani

Composer: Hannes Bieber

Sound Designer: Paul Powaljaew, Jonathan Linnenberg

Musicians: Rebecca Boyer, Gretchen Wallbrunn, Götz Engelhardt, Sergei Drabkin

Animation: Jan Bexterman, Mareike Waterkotte, Sarah Schulz

Voice Actor: Franz Warneck

Character Modeling: Vincent Maurer

Grading: Jakob Sinsel

Rigging: Justus Schmidt, Enzio Probst, Leo Pflug

Graphic Designer:

Denisa Tanase

Editor: Elias Engelhardt

Executive Producer: Sara Shabani, Saskia Stirn

Production Company: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH

Dear Future Children - now on Spotify & co.

Our Soundtrack for DEAR FUTURE CHILDREN is now available on Spotify, Amazon Music and iTunes. Many thanks to Volker Armbruster for the final mix of the Spotify Album!

Composers: Leonard Küßner & Hannes Bieber

Mixing: Volker Armbruster

Director: Franz Böhm

Production: Nico Gerspacher, Johannes Schubert, Ansgar Wörner

DOP: Friedemann Leis

Editor: Daniela Schramm Moura

"Der Nachtkrapp" - orchestra session

I recently had the honour of recording with the "Budapest Scoring Orchestra". It was a very exciting experience writing and orchestrating this music. I got the opportunity quite spontaneous - so I was not able to use my usual workstation with my big keyboard and powerful computer. But I was able to compose, write and orchestrate everything on time just with my tiny laptop.

I called this piece of music "Der Nachtkrapp" (engl. "the night raven").