assignments/opdrachten/promos
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promo
opdracht filmmuziek voor het Nieuwjaarsgala 2020 van
de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam opdracht uitgeverij Moon books (Overamstel uitgevers):
reclame voor De engste serie ooit - Tjerk Noordraven opdracht: leader VPRO Goudzoekers
opdracht: vlog Monsterwereld
kinderboekenschrijver Tjerk Noordraven |
- In opdracht van de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam een compositie voor orkest tbv de grand opening van het Nieuwjaarsgala 2020 in de Aula. Oscar-achtige setting met onderwijsprijzen.
- In opdracht van Overamstel Uitgevers muziek voor 2 reclame filmpjes voor 'De engste serie ooit' kinderboeken van Tjerk Noordraven, april 2018. - In opdracht van kinderboekenschrijver Tjerk Noordraven heb ik een drietal leaders gemaakt voor zijn 'monsterverhalen' op youtube. Zijn 'Engste serie ooit' is een kinderboekenserie waarvan het eerste deel 'Het nieuwe spookhuis' in 2017 succesvol verschenen is. Inmiddels al deel 2, deel 3 en 4 in de winkel, net als Het Boek van Wonderlijke Wezen die Werkelijk Bestaan. - Jeroen Visser, documentary director. Project: 'Het Lam Gods', 2011, documentary about the restoration of the 12 panels of the altar piece by The brothers van Eyck, in the Sint-Bataafs-Cathedral, Gent, Belgium. Chamber-music composed by Roelof Broekman. - VPRO: 'Goudzoekers', 2nd series, 10 episodes, national television. Program in which current economical topics were explained for a broad audience. Thanks to Geert Rozinga (director). Leader and additional music by Roelof Broekman. - Hewlett-Packard, HP. Heddema Productions, Zürich (Switzerland). A series of 3 corporate video's about connections between HP and other companies. Music composed Roelof Broekman - VU Medical Center (educational short films, 5 videos). VU University, Amsterdam. Music by Roelof Broekman. - Fetal Movements. Documentary about the development of the fetus. VU media. Third price at the Film Festival Teleciencia. Music by Roelof Broekman. - Slavenburg. Leader for internal journals. Uitzichtopzee Productions, Diane Volbeda. Music by Roelof Broekman. - Cees Dam (architect). TV Commercial about a glass building at the South-axis in Amsterdam. Producer: Diane Volbeda. Music: Roelof Broekman. - Unicef. Company: Pixelpixies. Computer-game (serious gaming) for children in war-zones whom have to deal with landmines. Short musical fragments following the game. Music by Roelof Broekman. - Wadlandis. De Waddenzee vereniging Company: Pixelpixies. Computer-game (serious gaming) for young children, explaining problems with The Waddenzee and the rise of sea-levels. Short musical fragments following the game. Music by Roelof Broekman. - Roelof Broekman composed music for Allmusic: www.allmusic.nl Short pieces of music for an online music library. Music by Roelof Broekman. |
instruments & additional
Roelof creates music with Vienna Symphonic Library, VSL Suite Effects, Altiverb reverbs by Audio Ease, Steinberg products: Cubase / Wavelab / Halion, Waves master limiting, Spectrasonics virtual-instruments: Trilian / Omnisphere / RMX, H3 and Mark Studio II from Overloud: guitar and bass software, CLA vocals, CLA bass and CLA mixdown, Focusrite pre-amp soundcard, Steinberger electric guitar, Simon & Patrick handmade acoustic guitar, Galaxy II virtual piano's, Ethnic World 5 library, East West: Symphonic Choirs library, Toontrack EZ-2 series and Superior Drummer, Audio-Technica ATH/m50x closed headphone, Alesis near field monitoring with Yamaha amps.
All compositions made on a customized laptop by BTO, a Novation masterkeyboard and iRig Keys. Allthough equiped with high-end parts, the studio setup is very flexable and provides Roelof to work from any place.
All compositions made on a customized laptop by BTO, a Novation masterkeyboard and iRig Keys. Allthough equiped with high-end parts, the studio setup is very flexable and provides Roelof to work from any place.
soundscapes
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modern recording tecniques
For composing music I use the Vienna Symphony Library, developed in Vienna (Austria) by Herb Tucmandl. It contains all instrument groups of a big orchestra, a medium ensemble, as well as solo instruments. All these instruments have numerous articulations (staccato, sustain notes, trills, pizzicato) which can be triggered with an ingenious sample-player system. Also: each articulation contains several loudness levels, from p(ppp) to f(fff).
All these samples are beforehand played live on a small stage and recorded, every individual note possible, in different articulations and loudness levels. Now the composer can trigger each individual recorded note by using a keyboard and a software program with a (piano) key editor. Playing a note on the keyboard triggers a specific recorded note of a chosen instrument, depending on which note you play (like a C# produces a C# of a violin, or a non-pitched percussion sound), and how hard you press the key (producing a p or an f).
Then, when it comes to composing, it’s just the same old song, but in stead of working with a written score one can write notes using a (piano) key editor on the screen. This provides the opportunity to actually hear what you are writing: in real time. Every note you touch is instant audible.
Also different from a written score is that it’s now possible to create a finished product. The players notes are already recorded: so it’s time to mix all the different instruments and articulations you have played on the keyboard like it’s been done in a studio for making a CD production: in my case for using it as the final score. In this way the composer becomes the conductor in spreading en balancing the sound. He also becomes the sound engineer at the same time, using reverb, limiters and equalizers to realize what he had in mind.
Apart from these orchestral samples I use real electrical guitars, my voice and other sounds to complete the scores.
All these samples are beforehand played live on a small stage and recorded, every individual note possible, in different articulations and loudness levels. Now the composer can trigger each individual recorded note by using a keyboard and a software program with a (piano) key editor. Playing a note on the keyboard triggers a specific recorded note of a chosen instrument, depending on which note you play (like a C# produces a C# of a violin, or a non-pitched percussion sound), and how hard you press the key (producing a p or an f).
Then, when it comes to composing, it’s just the same old song, but in stead of working with a written score one can write notes using a (piano) key editor on the screen. This provides the opportunity to actually hear what you are writing: in real time. Every note you touch is instant audible.
Also different from a written score is that it’s now possible to create a finished product. The players notes are already recorded: so it’s time to mix all the different instruments and articulations you have played on the keyboard like it’s been done in a studio for making a CD production: in my case for using it as the final score. In this way the composer becomes the conductor in spreading en balancing the sound. He also becomes the sound engineer at the same time, using reverb, limiters and equalizers to realize what he had in mind.
Apart from these orchestral samples I use real electrical guitars, my voice and other sounds to complete the scores.
music for orchestra and ensemble
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all music productions
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, compositie voor het Nieuwjaarsgala 2020
- Overamstel Publishers/Esther Malaparte
- Tjerk Noordraven, writer for Overamstel Publishers | Moon books
- Music composed for documentary (dvd) Het Lam Gods (gebr. van Eyk, 1432, kathedraal van Gent). Production: Jeroen Visser, NL
- Roelof Broekman writes and produces music for www.allmusic.nl
- VPRO tv broadcast 'Goudzoekers' leader and additional music (20 episodes)
- Arrangement advice for cd production 'The Hunch'
- String arrangement for popsong Legal tender commissioned by Anne Soldaat
- Hewlett-Packard, HP, company news video worldwide (Heddema productions, Zurich)
- Pixelpixies (multimedia company, Yvonne Teuben & Eric Klok)
- Xmedia works (multimedia and serious gaming)
- JTI/Syngenta, company news video worldwide (corporate videos)
- VU medical centre (education videos, 4 projects)
- Foetal Movements (documentary: Film festival Teleciencia 3rd price MIF-sciences)
- Slavenburg, company news video (leader)
- Cees Dam, commercial national broadcast (architect, Zuid-as project Amsterdam, NL)
- Unicef, serious game for children living near minefields
- Waddenzee, serious game education for highschool children
- Jurymember singer-songwriter price (de Grote Prijs) Amsterdam (asked by composer Klaas ten Holt)
- Finals NCRV Popslag on radio 3, national radio. With my one-person band 'Portland'. Songs: Starshill dreams and Stop, don't want you baby
- Starshill dreams appears on a cd for new talent published by Nationaal Popinstituut
- Live performance and interview for Radio Amsterdam (Radio Mortale)
- Live performances as a singer-songwriter in Amsterdam clubs
- Cd's written, performed and produced since 1996 by Roelof Broekman:
W.Shane - Short Illusions (10 tracks, 1996, produced with Dirk van Boven on bass, and Emiel Kortleven on drums)
W.Shane - Time to fly (27 tracks, 2000)
Portland - Waiting for the snowman (10 tracks, 2000)
Portland - These conversations (9 tracks, 2001)
Portland - Velvet screams from the backyard (8 tracks, 2006)
Hesperus - Crepuscular Rays (4 tracks, Black Heaven Productions/Sepulchral Silence Italy, 2017)
Hesperus - Death of my dear demons (4 tracks, Black Heaven Productions/Sepulchral Silence Italy, 2019)
- Overamstel Publishers/Esther Malaparte
- Tjerk Noordraven, writer for Overamstel Publishers | Moon books
- Music composed for documentary (dvd) Het Lam Gods (gebr. van Eyk, 1432, kathedraal van Gent). Production: Jeroen Visser, NL
- Roelof Broekman writes and produces music for www.allmusic.nl
- VPRO tv broadcast 'Goudzoekers' leader and additional music (20 episodes)
- Arrangement advice for cd production 'The Hunch'
- String arrangement for popsong Legal tender commissioned by Anne Soldaat
- Hewlett-Packard, HP, company news video worldwide (Heddema productions, Zurich)
- Pixelpixies (multimedia company, Yvonne Teuben & Eric Klok)
- Xmedia works (multimedia and serious gaming)
- JTI/Syngenta, company news video worldwide (corporate videos)
- VU medical centre (education videos, 4 projects)
- Foetal Movements (documentary: Film festival Teleciencia 3rd price MIF-sciences)
- Slavenburg, company news video (leader)
- Cees Dam, commercial national broadcast (architect, Zuid-as project Amsterdam, NL)
- Unicef, serious game for children living near minefields
- Waddenzee, serious game education for highschool children
- Jurymember singer-songwriter price (de Grote Prijs) Amsterdam (asked by composer Klaas ten Holt)
- Finals NCRV Popslag on radio 3, national radio. With my one-person band 'Portland'. Songs: Starshill dreams and Stop, don't want you baby
- Starshill dreams appears on a cd for new talent published by Nationaal Popinstituut
- Live performance and interview for Radio Amsterdam (Radio Mortale)
- Live performances as a singer-songwriter in Amsterdam clubs
- Cd's written, performed and produced since 1996 by Roelof Broekman:
W.Shane - Short Illusions (10 tracks, 1996, produced with Dirk van Boven on bass, and Emiel Kortleven on drums)
W.Shane - Time to fly (27 tracks, 2000)
Portland - Waiting for the snowman (10 tracks, 2000)
Portland - These conversations (9 tracks, 2001)
Portland - Velvet screams from the backyard (8 tracks, 2006)
Hesperus - Crepuscular Rays (4 tracks, Black Heaven Productions/Sepulchral Silence Italy, 2017)
Hesperus - Death of my dear demons (4 tracks, Black Heaven Productions/Sepulchral Silence Italy, 2019)
