Online portfolio
July 2010

With this portfolio website, which was created for his Video 2 exam at the Institute For Music And Media, Raphael Feist presents himself and his work as an audio engineer on the internet.
Under Mariko Takagi's and my supervision, Raphael implemented this project with the support from FH D student Svenja Voß (design), Mario Villavecchia (programming), and Alexis Papathanassopoulos (copywriting).

Visual Music
January 2010

The short clip Seasons was created in close collaboration between Motion Design student Christian Schwarzendahl and Film Music student Christian Barth during the annual Visual Music workshop supervised by Prof. Matthias Raue and me at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.
It illustrates the cycle of one year in an abstract way. The entire visual action is reduced to one tree and its environments. The visual structures interact with different parts of the sound. In such a way that it became possible to let the visuals react to the sounds and vice versa.

Video 1 exam
July 2009

When I asked IMM student Martin Mercer for a few lines on his Visual Music project beautiful world, he sent me this quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Flowers are the beautiful words and hieroglyphs of Nature with which she tells us how much she loves us".
Supervised this Video 1 exam in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski.

Video 2 exam
July 2009

Niko Faust launched his portfolio website, an online representation of himself and his professional work as audio engineer, music producer and composer. Designer Simone Waiblinger and programmer Pavel Gnezdilov were involved in making this project a success. I supervised this project as part of Niko Faust's Video 2 exam at IMM.

Video 1 exam
July 2009

Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour, twenty-four hours in a day, seven days in a week, four weeks in a month, twelve month in a year, many years in a life. Supervised this Video 1 exam by IMM student Uli Kohlmann in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski.

Video 1 exam
July 2009

IMM student Fabian Greb created this Visual Music clip, which he calls: A Swing Thing. And it really makes you wanna swing. Supervised this Video 1 exam in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski.

Video 2 exam
July 2009

IMM student Michael Ochs redesigned his portfolio website as a part of his Video 2 exam. Together with programmer Ivo Meißner and designer Stella Janina Bittner, he created a complete new design with a flash based front end and a Typo3 back end. Supervised by Tristan Thönnissen and me.

Workshop @ IMM
May 2009

Christian Schäfer and I hosted another 3-days-workshop from May 8th until 10th, 2009. We talked about the three best album or CD covers - the favourites of the students and ours. Plus, the students brought one song to visualize in a square format. For the design they chose three paper clips (with closed eyes) and had to work without computers. The only option was a b/w xerox machine. For the typography the students could choose between Letraset, stamps and their own handwriting. See above for the results by Anja Bender, Nina Bender, Martin Brock, Stefan Jähner, Gerrit Kress, Christoph Sapp, Namik Schwarz and Svenja Voss. A very enjoyable experience altogether. 

Final exam
April 2009

The final exam Multimedia & Multimodalität (PDF in German) by Christoph Eggener cites a number of early studies in the cognitive sciences which explore perceptual interactions between the senses of seeing and hearing, and analyses them towards their relevance for audiovisual media. It thereby focuses on early stages of perception, and tries to evaluate whether there are connections between stimulus dimensions such as brightness and volume, or colour and pitch.
The visual music clip congruence, which is the practical part of this degree dissertation, takes up some of the theoretical results and transforms them into audiovisual design in the form of correlations between music and visual animation. In this way a form of perceptual aesthetics should be revealed which refers to cultural codes as little as possible, but rather to early stages of perception. Music by Fabian Schulz.
The final exam was supervised by Prof. Dr. Karin Welkert-Schmitt and me for the media faculty at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf.
Christoph has landed one of the top five places in the Visual Music Award 2009. 

Video 1 exam
February 2009

IMM student Lukas Vogel did an amazing job on live action, blue screen and post production. Filmed at a dark, industrial location, he later combined that video footage with abstract projections and a dancer - all shot separately. The movement translates into music and the music into light, thus Lukas Vogel called his film Light Orchestra. Supervised this Video 1 exam in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski.

Video 1 exam

Visual Music
February 2009

The idea for this video emerged in the annual Visual Music workshop supervised by Prof. Matthias Raue and me in the Motion Design program at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. The intense cooperation between composer Christophe Kalkau and motion designer Tobias Gallé resulted in an energetic and aggressive clip. The intention was to create an operating and dancing mechanical organism representing a strong connection between sounds and visuals. The project was inspired by Autechre's Ganz Graf video.

Workshop @ IMM
January 2009

Christian Schäfer and I hosted a 3-days-workshop from January 17th until 19th, 2009. We talked about the three best album or CD covers - the favourites of the students and ours. Plus, the students brought one song to visualize in a square format. For the design they chose three paper clips (with closed eyes) and had to work without computers. The only option was a b/w xerox machine. For the typography the students could choose between Letraset, stamps and their own handwriting. See above for the results by Lila Dornhof, Markus Göddertz, Katharina Hauke, Tom Heckmann, Stefanie Hilker, Anika Lehnen, Jörg Plewe and Lukas Truniger. A very enjoyable experience altogether. 

Video 2 exam
October 2008

The visual concept of all MBF music videos was developed by IMM student Severin Schultze as part of his Video 2 exam under my supervision. MBF is a Cologne based techno label run by well-known Techno DJ Riley Reinhold. The videos are short VJ-performances and can be viewed on MBF's YouTube channel as well as live visuals in clubs.

Final exams: Live visuals

Final exam
September 2008

For her diploma thesis, IMM student Beate Meinert designed and produced a web-based training for an effective use of the digital workstations in the visual post-production department of at the IMM. Her work included the development of a functional screen design and the content authoring. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Sabine Erkens and me.

Final exam
August 2008

In his diploma thesis creationcopychaos.com, IMM student Felix Nölken investigates into the range of impacts of digitalisation and interconnectedness on production, distribution and consumption of media content with a focus on music. Based on the conclusions drawn, an internet business model concerned with collaboratively structuring music online is developed in the second part of the work. The thesis was supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Klinkenberg and me.

Visual Music
March 2008

The idea for the video Dancing with Fire emerged in the Visual Music workshop supervised by Matthias Raue and me in the Motion Design program at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Fire is Erekle Inashvili's favorite visual element since childhood and in this project he tried to show hypnotic aesthetics through the rhythm of fire. Produced in an intense collaboration with the composer Özgür Akgül. Özgür Akgül is a fellow student of Erekle at the Film Music/Sound Design program of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg.

Video 1 exam
February 2008

A film by IMM student Christian Frentzen. Sounds and pictures melt into each other, sound and rhythm cause the flow of the moving pictures and the other way around. The video Sound Machines was cut out of digital photos. Music and sound were composed afterwards. Supervised this Video 1 exam in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski.

Video 2 exam
February 2008

monokompatibel, project of IMM students Severin Schultze und Michael Wirtz, is online. The site represents both fields of monokompatibel's interest - art and business - in a special visual graphic concept. Supervised concept and production of the website as part of Michael Wirtz' Video 2 exam.

Visual Music Award 2007
October 2007

IMM student Maurice Braun won the Visual Music Award 2007 for his sound- and video composition Licht|Geschwindigkeit (light|speed). The 1st prize was endowed with a mobile phone and a flat-screen. Supervised Licht|Geschwindigkeit as a Video 1 exam in my Visual Music class together with IMM assistant professor Andreas Kolinski.

Silver Award for Sebastian Krüger
August 2007

IMM student Sebastian Krüger's portfolio website audicted was highly recommended in two internet forums: On July 17th, 2007 at Visueller Orgasmus and on August 7th, 2007 at Strange Fruits. Additionally, the website won the "Mowsnet Silver Award ". Supervised concept and production of this site as a Video 2 exam. Sebastian collaborated with designer Jan Weiss.

Motion Design
July 2007

Nike's mission 70+, a project of Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg students Aleksander Bach (director) and Justin Kruse (art direction), was nominated for the VDW-AWARD 2007 and won the SPOTLIGHT FESTIVAL 2008 bronze award. The documentary commercial portrays a 72 years old fancy diver. Supervised Justin Kruse's graphics and color grading as part of his class in the Motion Design (formerly: Film & TV Design) program.

Live Visuals
October 2006

IMM students Caro Bergmann, You-Jin Chang, Simone Fuchs, Kaling Khouw, Beate Meinert and Sabrina Skoda, contributed videoprojections, lighting design and technical direction to the Melodrama-Showcase for the Hommage à Schumann performing arts series. Director: Jürgen Hartmann. Musical Director: Prof. Thomas Leander. The videos were part of the Live Visuals course by Ulla Bartold (Camera and Lighting) and me (Digital Visual Media). Premiere was on November 5th 2006 at the Partika-Saal of the University of Music Duesseldorf.

Final exam
August 2006

Supervised the thesis by Jörg Thommes (lichtfront), student at Kunsthochschule fuer Medien, Visual Music - the history of audio-visual coherence. Jörg developed software for the real-time transformation of vector graphics named Oskar for VJs. Thesis and project were graded A+.

Video 2 exam
August 2006

Lorenz Rhode finished his homepage. The site was a final project in Video 2 at the Institute for Music And Media, under my supervision. Lorenz publishes funk- and synthesizer-heavy house productions and remixes. His last publication was a Realbase Recordings remix "The Rhythm Slaves-Shine on too".

Final exam
July 2006

Supervised RAIL4ROCK, thesis project of graduating student Claudia Kanther in Graphic Design at the University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf. Claudia Kanther developed a communication strategy which sends audiences instead of musicians touring for festivals. The thesis was graded A+.

Fernsehschoner
February 2006

Gregor Kuschmirz graduated at Baden-Württemberg Filmacademy with the unmistakable project Fernsehschoner. Supervised this final exam in the Motion Design (formerly: Film & TV Design) program together with Prof. Manfred Becker. Later that year he developed and directed the Stock Exchange of Visions for Centre Pompidou and Benetton's research-centre Fabrica.

Final exam
January 2006

Supervised cocoon - a multi-screen experience of duesseldorf, thesis project of graduating student Tobias Kavelar at the Institute For Music And Media.

Motion Design
February 2005

Right Time was the first self-chosen project Felix Koziol directed and produced as a student at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. In collaboration with Peter Matjasko (DOP) he also developed the look and animations for this music video. Supervised this project in the Motion Design (formerly: Film & TV Design) program.