posted: 2010-02-08 Letzten Donnerstag war ich beim Radio MDR Sputnik zu Gast für ein Interview. Den Mitschnitt habe ich gerade zugeschickt bekommen...

posted: 2010-02-02 Am 15.03.2010 wird Hendrik sein Buch 'Valkama' um 20 Uhr in einer Lesung vorstellen. Diese findet in Saarbrücken statt und ihr seid herzlich dazu eingeladen. Die Adresse lautet:

      Saarländisches Künstlerhaus
      Saarbrücken e.V.
      Karlstraße 1
      66111 Saarbrücken

posted: 2010-01-26 Finally done... We are proud to release the final version of Valkaama with Michael Georgi's music score. You can download your copy here. It was a long and stony road to get this movie done and still we are giving it away for free: Valkaama becomes one of the few full-length movies which are licensed under one of the Creative Commons licenses. Even more... with the Open Source approach and the usage of the Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 license for the movie and its source material, Valkaama entered almost completely new terrain. We hope to give a positive example so that more "Open" or "Free" movies will follow and that there will be more and more source material available under free content licenses. You are welcome to copy/remix/mashup/share our movie and the source material and if you like, please support us by donating or buying a DVD of Valkaama. We are giving the movie away for free but that doesn't mean it has cost us nothing in terms of time and money. Support free culture! Thank you and have fun with the movie :)

posted: 2010-01-20 Our shop is online. If you like Valkaama please support us by purchasing your copy of the movie on DVD... and tell all your friends to get one too. We hope to cover at least the production costs and if everything goes well, maybe we can even raise some money for future projects.

posted: 2010-01-02 The Valkaama music score written by Michael Georgi has just been released on our webpage. It contains 19 Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 licensed music tracks and can be listened to and downloaded here.

posted: 2009-12-14 We are releasing three versions of Valkaama, each with a different music score. The first, available from the 2nd week in January, features the work of the composer Michael Georgi. The second, released in February, has music composed by Patrick 'audioscapist' Fitzsimons and the third, released in March, has Matthias 'McBlaze' Blazejak's film score.

The three scores differ significantly from each other. Michael takes a melancholic-classical approach which is dominated by the use of piano melodies backed by strings. Minimalist influences create wide soundscapes generated by meditative and condensed repetitions of his themes.

Patrick, on the other hand, mixes classical orchestration with a wide range of synthesiser sounds which envelop the action with inventive soundscapes. He mainly uses his music selectively to support key scenes.

Finally, Matthias uses an old-school synthesiser style. Intentionally alienating sound effects generate dark and urgent soundscapes. In addition he mixes driving beats into his thoroughly electronic soundtrack.

To get an impression of the three soundtrack designers and their work, have a look at the following webpages:

Michael Georgi Patrick Fitzsimons Matthias Blazejak

http://www.myspace.com/michageorgi http://audioscapist.net http://www.blazejak.org

posted: 2009-09-21 Subtitles are now available also in French. Many thanks to Delia for the translation. If you would like to be part of the team by making the movie available in your language... just get in touch and we'll tell you how it works.

posted: 2009-09-10 We just published a new remix of Crossroads by Alexander Brennecke. This one sticks close to the original song by Meander and hence can be seen as a sort of mainstream remix. Enjoy :)