We speak to Austrian composer Stefan Fraunberger about his art on the soundtrack of Woodwind. Your art is not only inspired by Indian Classical Music or tradition. Tell us about your influences ranging from Eastern Europe to the Middle East. I lived in Romania… (There was) a phenomena that was mostly erased in “western civilizations” through 19th century…
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Manjoo wrote Woodwind listening to Arvo Part and Fraunberger
We already read how the story of Woodwind was initially researched while inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna in 2006. I’d listen to all Beethoven’s Symphonies, as well as a few piano sonatas, but then Symphonies 3, 4 and 7 became the central focus due to their balletic themes. Instead of taking me closer to Beethoven, research…
To 21st Century Fox and Ziggy Stardust
Every minute, every second of a film is absolutely crucial to achieve the highest standards in all art departments. So then it’s quite an achievement for my cat, Fox that one of the major sequences in Woodwind was inspired by him. One day he was photographed inside our shoe cupboard, and so I wrote to my…
Visual edit and running time finalized
Fin Pictures advanced the fine cut of Woodwind, perfecting the transitions and completing the visual edit on Friday night. The running time is finalized at 131 minutes, not counting the credits yet. Woodwind director Fin Manjoo talks about the last visual cut. “Over the last two months we’ve gradually trimmed the film close to the…
Shape interviews soundtrack composer Stefan Fraunberger
The platform for innovative music, Shape, spoke to Woodwind’s soundtrack composer Stefan Fraunberger. Here follows extracts from the Q & A, just before he performs at the CTM Festival in Berlin: On his music in abandoned churches I used to live in one of these Saxon fortress churches built 600, 700 years ago as a protection…
The Pyramid Complex
A little story that isn’t part of Woodwind, but is related to the themes of the film. One day Adam walked to the top of a hill where he saw another hill, a hill which looked like a pyramid, and so he imagined that beneath the trees, there lay a shape fashioned by his forefathers, like pyramidal…
Woodwind trailer dates revealed
Eager followers were hoping to snatch a motion picture glimpse of Woodwind soon, with word that a rough version of the teaser was in the hands of director Fin Manjoo. Though, Fin Pictures has revealed the period for the very first teaser trailer. The complete cinematic copy for Woodwind was always targeting a September 2017 release…
Leandro Taub’s Video Diaries in India and South Africa
We will update this video diary blog weekly. You can also access Leandro Taub’s little video diaries directly on our Woodwind Facebook page. Woodwind lead actor Taub doesn’t forget his fans, even on the road between Shimla and Manali in India. When others stop for a drink break, Taub is talking to his followers in his…
The magic tuk-tuk of Varanasi
Transporting our gear from the airport in Delhi, India felt like we were in one of those smuggling movies in the heart of Colombia, driving in circles through several police checkpoints with unintelligible foreign language questions between tropical forest trees, dilapidated buildings, boiling heat, mobile phones passed from one fixer to another, our airplane in a hanger and…
Woodwind’s fine cut running time revealed
Fin Pictures has revealed a more precise running time of Woodwind (2017). After the first cut and fine cut, the feature film now stands at 150 minutes in length. Woodwind is now in the sound editing phase, and the run time could be slightly altered in the final cut when effected by transitions, additional rhythmic movements…
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