Herman Witkam - Film Composer

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Member Since: 11/3/2006
Band Website: herman-witkam.com
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::Film composers:: Bernard Herrmann, Takemitsu Tôru, Ennio Morricone, Hayasaka Fumio, Nino Rota, Jerry Goldsmith, Maurice Jarre, Satô Masaru, Zbigniew Preisner, Eduard Artemyev, Georges Delerue, Angelo Badalamenti, Howard Shore, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Christopher Young, Joe Hisaishi, Dario Marianelli, Michael Nyman, Hayashi Hikaru, Miklós Rózsa, Alberto Iglesias, Zhao Jiping, Jon Brion, Goran Bregovic, John Barry, Wojciech Kilar, John Williams, Thomas Newman, Umebayashi Shigeru, Jeff & Mychael Danna, Trevor Jones, Philip Glass, James Newton-Howard, Elmer Bernstein, Tan Dun, Clint Mansell, Jeff Beal, Vincent van Warmerdam, Ikebe Shinichirô, Alexandre Desplat, Alex North, Kenji Kawai, Gabriel Yared, Lalo Schiffrin, Danny Elfman.

::Sound Designers:: Walter Murch, Jacques Maumont, Takemitsu Tôru, Eduard Artemyev, Alan Splet, David Lynch.

::Composers:: Stravinsky, Debussy, J.S. Bach, Perotin, Frank Zappa, Aram Khatchatourian, Bela Bartok, Tan Dun, Gyorgy Ligeti, Beethoven, Steve Reich, Sofia Gubaidulina, Jacob ter Veldhuis, Guillaume de Machault, Satie, Theo Loevendie, Alexander Skrjabin, Claudio Monteverdi, Prokofiev, Kryztof Penderecki, Francesco Landini, Mussorgsky, Berio, John Adams, Johannes Ockegem, Maurice Ravel, Mahler, Shostakovich, Chopin, Takemitsu Tôru, Dvorák, Verdi, George Crumb, Berlioz, Arvo Pärt, Louis Andriessen, Satô Somei, Borodin, Olivier Messiaen, G.P.Telemann, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Schnittke, John Cage, Liszt, Giya Kancheli, Arnold Schönberg, Hildegard von Bingen, Charles Ives, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Kaija Saariaho, Claude Vivier.

::Instrumentalists/Musicians:: Djivan Gasparyan, John Coltrane, Ernst Reijsiger, Mingus, Ali Farka Touré, Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, Adrian Belew, Miles Davis, Cachao, Jaco Pastorius, Bismillah Khan, Tom Waits, Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, Tim & Jeff Buckley, Thelonius Monk, Youssou n'Dour, Erkan Ogur, Tony Levin, Arto Tunçboyaciyan, Nick Cave, Herbie Hancock, Zakir Hussain, Sakamoto Ryuichi, Robert Fripp, Javier Paxariño, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Watazumi Doso Roshi, Vardan Hovanissian, Liudvig Garibian, Charlie Parker, Yeghish Manoukian, Billie Holiday, Bobby McFerrin, Brian Eno, Sainkho Namtchylak, David Sylvian, Jean-Luc Ponty, Wynton & Branford Marsalis, Björk, Philly Joe Jones, Ry Cooder, Kudsi Ergüner, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Aphex Twin, Burt Bacharach, Ruben Gonzales, Ibrahim Ferrer, Keith Jarrett, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Phil Collins, Alva Noto, Amon Tobin, Trent Reznor, Stephan Micus, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Imogen Heap, John McLaughlin, Jimmy Scott, Barry Adamson.

::Bands/Ensembles:: Huun-Huur-Tu, King Crimson, Erschiglen, Buena Vista Social Club, Radiohead, Tower of Power, Gentle Giant, Soundgarden, Inti, Atlas Ensemble, Steely Dan, Taraf de Haidouks, Radiohead, Air, Kronos Quartet, Yamato Ensemble, Pink Floyd, Japan, Kocani Orkestar, Motorpsycho, Gentle Giant, Musikas, Melody of China, Al Turath Ensemble, Bratsch, Gontiti, Echolyn, The Flower Kings, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Di Gojim, The Police, QOTSA, Van Der Graaf Generator, Kyoto Gagaku Orchestra, The Mars Volta, Goblin, Joy Division, Porcupine Tree, Orkest de Volharding, Plant, Jaga Jazzist, ELP, Opeth (acoustic & later stuff), (some) New Cool Collective, (old) Dream Theater, Yes.

::Filmmakers:: : Kurosawa Akira, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Stanley Kubrick, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Hitchcock, Ozu Yasujiro, Fritz Lang, David Lynch, Teshigahara Hiroshi, Peter Greenaway, Suzuki Seijun, Jacques Tati, Shindô Kaneto, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Kitano Takeshi, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Mizoguchi Kenji, David Lean, Francois Truffaut, Naruse Mikio, Lars von Trier, Oshima Nagisa, Wong Kar-Wai, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel, Kobayashi Masaki, Wim Wenders, Sergio Leone, Vittorio De Sica, Alain Resnais, Zhang Yimou (before Curse of the Golden Flower, which is horrible!), Alex van Warmerdam, Jim Jarmusch, John Cassavettes, Aoyama Shinji, Milos Forman, John Ford, Aki Kaurismaki, David Cronenberg, Tsukamoto Shinya, Coen brothers, Ishii Katsuhito, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, Alejandro Amenabar, Roberto Rosselini, Aleksandr Sokurov, Yamanaka Sadao, John Huston, Kim Ki-Duk, Roman Polanski, Rene Laloux, Miyazaki Hayao, Michael Winterbottom, Tsai Ming-Liang, Fassbinder, Kobayashi Masahiro, Martin Scorsese (with some exceptions), Dardenne brothers, Spike Lee, Quay Brothers, Jan Svankmajer, Alejandro González Iñárritu, PT Anderson, Imamura Shohei, Godfrey Reggio (qatsi), Park Chan-Wook (first two vengeance films), (some) György Pálfi, Miike Takashi (not the straight-to-video stuff), (70's) F F Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard. :

::Films:: Suna no onna, Stalker, Seven Samurai, Persona, Eraserhead, Otto e Mezzo, Dolls, La Strada, Underground, Dr. Strangelove, Kwaidan, Faust (Murnau), Harakiri (Seppuku), Mulholland Drive, The Conversation, Tetsuo, Playtime, Rashomon, Simon, Amores Perros, Spoorloos, Hadaka no Shima, Metropolis (1926), Yojimbo, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Suzuki's Taisho Trilogy (Zigeunerweisen, Kageroza, Yumeji), Dogville, Nosferatu (1922), Ran, The Face of Another, Blue Velvet, The Cook the thief the wife and her lover, Twentyfour Eyes, La Double Vie de Veronique, Brazil, Abel, Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi, Tokyo Monogatari, The Seventh Seal, Eureka, Hukkle, Repulsion, Grave of Fireflies, La Planete Sauvage, High & Low, Koyaanisqatsi, Trois Couleurs, Un Chien Andalou, Memento, La Battaglia Di Algeri, Bin-Jip, Lost Highway, Raise the Red Lantern, Humanity & Paper Balloons, Andrej Rublev, Umberto D, Hana-Bi, In the Mood for Love, Abre Los Ojos - Favs of 2007: Control (Corbijn), Inland Empire (Lynch), Nightwatching (Greenaway) - Favs of 2008 so far: There Will Be Blood (PT Anderson), The Rebirth (M. Kobayashi), Alexandra (Sokurov), The Man From London (Tarr), No Country for Old Men (Coens), Sad Vacation (Aoyama)..

::Television:: Twin Peaks, Riget, Carnivale, Berlin Alexanderplatz.

::Film scores:: Toru Takemitsu: Ran, Empire of Passion, Kwaidan, Tanin no kao, Seppuku, Suna no Onna | Bernard Herrmann: Taxi Driver, Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest | Fumio Hayasaka: Ikiru, Shichinin no Samurai, Rashomon | Masaru Sato: Yojimbo, Throne of Blood | Michael Nyman: The Draughtman's Contract, Ravenous, The Cook the thief the wife and her lover | David Shire: The Conversation | Thomas Newman: Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Road to Perdition | Trevor Jones: Dark City | Nino Rota: La Strada, Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli, I Vitteloni | John Williams: Jaws, | Ennio Morricone: La Battaglia di Algieri, Cinema Paradiso, Il Buono il brutto il cattivo, Per qualche dollaro in più, Per un pugno di dollari | Kaburagi Hajime: Tokyo Drifter | Zbigniew Preisner: Trois Couleurs Blue, Dekalog | Ryuichi Sakamoto: Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, Last Emperor | Angelo Badalamenti: Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet | Shigeru Umebayashi: Yumeji | Eduard Artemyev: Stalker, Solyaris | Hikaru Hayashi: Hadaka no shima, Onibaba | Howard Shore: Crash, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, | Jon Brion: Magnolia | Joe Hisaishi: Dolls, Hana-Bi, Kikujiro, Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi, Mononoke-hime, Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta | Alexandre Desplat: Syriana | Tan Dun: Hero | Zhao Jiping: Red Sorghum, Raise the Red Lantern | Wlodek Pawlik: Nightwatching | Christopher Young: Rounders | Mamiya Michio: Grave of Fireflies | Goran Bregovic: Underground | Vincent van Warmerdam: Abel, Noorderlingen, De Jurk | Alain Goraguer: La Planete Sauvage | Alejandro Jodorowsky: The Holy Mountain, El Topo | David Hirschfelder: Shine | Graeme Revell: The Crow | Philip Glass: Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi | Yamamoto Naozumi: Koroshi no rakuin | Jerry Goldsmith: Omen, Poltergeist, Papillon, Planet of The Apes | Gabriel Yared: The Talented Mr. Ripley | Kaoru Wada: Ninja Scroll | Wlodek Pawlik: Nightwatching | Gontiti: Dare mo Shiranai | Gottfried Huppertz: Metropolis | Miklós Rózsa: Ben Hur, Asphalt Jungle.

::Game music::: Arcanum (Ben Houge), Baldur's Gate (Michael Hoenig), Diablo (Matt Uelmen), Icewind Dale (Jeremy Soule) Planescape Torment (Mark Morgan) Yes! I'm into RPG's :)