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Lostinsounds is home to composer & sound designer John Lemke, a native of Berlin, who is currently based in Bristol, UK.
John has been working on a broad range of short and feature length films, TV productions and animations in the UK as composer & sound designer, including the Bafta Scotland nominated 'The Flyer' (2008) and 'I'm In Away From Here' (2009) and most recently various Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentaries. He currently splits his work between commissions and live performance work.
To view John's showreels or to listen to some of his work, just visit the 'films' or 'sounds & music' pages.
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John has contributed two albums to the new CUE Music catalogue by Sync Music (www.sync-music.com), where he is currently a featured composer. The albums 'Instrumental Moods' and 'Acoustic Awakening' can be previewed and licensed here.
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John's music features on the new Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary 'Madeleine Was Here'.
The programme first aired on Thursday, May 7th.
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Some of John's recent compositions could be heard on 'Addicted To Surrogacy', a new Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary, which first aired on Monday, March 9th 2009.
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John composed the music for 'A Very British Storm Junkie', the second episode of new Channel 4 Cutting Edge, which aired for the first time on Thursday, February 12th 2009.
You can read a review at the Radio Times and listen to some of the tracks here.
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Over the last few months John, Ivan Torres Hdez and Poppy Ackroyd have been working on some original material as the Humm Collective, an audio-visual performance group. You can visit the Humm Collective website here.
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John composed music for the Channel 4 Cutting Edge documentary 'The Ambulance - 8 Minutes To Disaster' which aired on Thursday, September 18th 2008. To find out what the programme is all about have a look here or read a review of it at the Independent website.
To hear some of the tracks from the programme, go here.
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A number of films John has worked on in the past year have made it into the international festival circuit:
Andrea Harkin's 'The Flyer' was selected for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and premiered on Friday, 27th of June at the Filmhouse 1. The film has now also been selected for the Cambridge Film Festival in September 2008, for the European Shorts selection.
This nice little review on their site comments positively on the music in The Flyer:
'This brilliant short shows real attention to human drama, a sensibility for
music and intimate yet never intrusive cinematography calling to mind those
Movern-Callar-like moments of lyrical realism. In addition, a great example
of European short film-making.'
Listen to 'The Flyer Theme' here.
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Catriona McInnes's 'I'm In Away From Here' was selected for the 65th Venice International Film Festival (2008), the Tirana International Film Festival (2008), Nashville Film Festival (2009), Arcipelago Film Festival (2009), Strasbourg International Film Festival (2009), Munich Short Film Festival (2009), Vendome Film Festival (2009), Motherlodge Film Festival (2009) and Glasgow Film Festival (2009). It was also nominated in the fiction category at the BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards 2009.
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Adam Barnett & Simon Deeley's 'Argentina In Therapy' was selected for the Document 6 Documentary Film Festival in Glasgow in October 2008. To hear some of the tracks from the film, go here.
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Darryl Hutchison's 'The Narcissism of Small Differences' was selected for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. The film was premiered on the 9th of June 2008. Hope you enjoyed it if you were able to make it down - if not, you can catch it here.
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Mais Darwazah's 'Take Me Home' has truly been doing the rounds in the festival circuit. It was selected for the International Documentary Film Festival of Marseille (France), the Euro Arab Cinema Festival (Egypt), the Franco Arab Film Festival (Jordan), the Montreal World Film Festival (Canada), the Caravan Festival of Documentary (Institut Du Monde Arabe, France), Ayam Beirut Al Cinema'eye (Lebanon), Medimed (Spain) and most recently the Palestinian Film Festival 2009 in London.
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What a year it's been - keep tuning in for more updates.
