Absolute Hearing

Name: Absolute Hearing
Start: 2010-02-17 12:00:00
Location: external venues

Time: Feb 17th 2010
Location: external venues
Guests: Martin Steyer

In cooperation with Insight Out and HFF "Konrad Wolf".

Prof. Martin Steyer, vice president of the Film and Television Academy (HFF) “Konrad Wolf” and re-recording mixer of the Academy Award winning film The Last King of Scotland, will conduct a master class on the film‘s soundtrack, which has an original score by composer Alex Heffes. Martin Steyer will explicate, both technically and strategically, how the score was woven into the fabric of the film from the very start to immerse the audience in the music of Uganda, adding a contrasting large scale orchestral score to the film. But not only the score, he will also give details from his perspective on film sound as an audio event with a quasi musical structure. The sound crew of the film including former HFF students Christian Conrad (supervising sound editor) and Dominik Schleyer (dialogue editor) were nominated for The Golden Reel Award (Best Sound Editing) of MPSE (Motion Picture Sound Editors) in 2007.

Martin Steyer

Martin Steyer is a musician and sound mixer who has worked on numerous films including GOOD BYE LENIN!, RESIDENT EVIL, YELLA, THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND and TRANSIT. He won Best Sound at the German Film Awards for REQUIEM, TRADE, WILD and THE CAPTAIN; Best Sound at the European Film Awards for THE CAPTAIN; and a BAFTA nomination for RUSH. He has taught at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) for 20 years and has been vice president of the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf since 2006.