© 2012 Robin Schlochtermeier
"One of the best short film scores I have ever heard"
Hilary Bevan Jones, former BAFTA chair
"A delight to work with"
Mark Fielder, Quickfire Media
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Robin Schlochtermeier is a Bristol-based film music composer and award-winning songwriter. He has produced the music score for a Royal Television Society Award - winning documentary and written the music for several prize-winning/nominated drama short films. His music for television credits include Channel 5, National Geographic and Arte.
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I'm currently working on the score for a new drama-doc for
Channel Five on King James' persecution of witchcraft. Directed and
produced by Mark Fielder of Quickfire Media, the doc
features stunning dramatic reconstructions
and examines the conditions and factors that led to the
biggest spike in witch persecution in history.
Robert Blake in
Taunton,
a docu-comedy directed by innovative documentary filmmaker Ros Evans,
has won an award for best use of music at the Archaeology Channel Film
Festival 2012 in Oregon, USA. I scored the film for him in 2010 using
an uncharacteristically energetic electronica style. Another film I
scored for Ros and his partner in crime of White Mammoth Films, Rhodri
Davies, An Introduction
to Contemporary Archaeology, was nominated for best script
and received a special mention for innovative approach to archaeology
on screen.
I am now offering skype lessons in composition and music production. Visit my new teaching page for a sample lesson and more details.
2011 was nicely concluded by this piece of good news for filmmaker George Purves and the amazing cast and crew of this short film we made earlier in the year. I then used the holiday period to move house and studio and to take a well-deserved break in Cornwall and Devon.
Monday 30th January 2012's BBC One Show featured a special entitled The Maths of Music produced in Bristol, which I was delighted to do some music theory consulting for. The special ends with a four-chord sequence that a whole host of pop songs are based on. If you're musically inclined, it's I-V-VI-IV. Now go and write another With or Without You, it's easy!
A few of the films I scored last year are now being shown around the country. The Jumper and Bulb have been shown at Cineme in Bristol a few times now. End of January also saw the first night of Let's Keep it Short, organised by Tom Geoffrey, in London, where films by Rob Savage, Will McGregor and also The Jumper were shown. Rob Savage's Polaroid, which I scored, originally made for the Smoke and Mirrors 48 h competition, is now nominated for best film at Watersprite film festival.
I'm proud to be now working on George Purves' new 16mm short film The Fruits of Labour. I've developed three musical themes that fit with elements of the film's narrative and I'm about a third into the scoring at the time of writing. Expect lots of piano and guitar - I'm glad I can put my lovely Gretsch semi-acoustic to good use! - as well as some vocals.
