I composed the score for Laura Isabel Schneider's beautiful animation film "Hooked on Illusions". The pictures inspired me to create an unsettling atmosphere, so I recorded a bunch of unusual sounds and turned them into hybrids with natural and synthetic elements.



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Score: Hooked on Illusions

This historical drama podcast in true-crime style delves into the untold story behind the controversial 1972 book, "The Limits to Growth". Developed from late author Dana Meadows' unpublished memoirs and featuring rare original audio, the three-part podcast takes listeners on a journey with Dana and Dennis Meadows and their team, as they strive to inform the world about looming ecological threats and potential solutions.

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<div style="text-align: left">The series was researched, created and produced by Katy Shields and Vegard Beyer. I composed and produced the entire music score for *Tipping Point*, contributing to the project's overwhelming success. Utilizing a blend of electric guitar and synthesizers, my compositions served to heighten the narrative with intense moments, character themes and melancholic harmonies. The podcast was very positively received with tens of thousands of listeners in its first weeks, and more than 100 reviews across all major podcasting platofrms— every single one five out of five stars.</div>

*Tipping Point* received critical acclaim and endorsements also from sustainability scholars, journalists, climate organizations and  professional podcasters in the sustainability space, such as Rachel Donald of Planet:Critical.


Podcast: Tipping Point

Impressions

Animation artist Anne Fie Salverda and I created the opening act for the [Internationaal Filmfestival Assen 2023](https://filmfestivalassen.nl/), which focuses on presenting the works of female filmmakers. 

Our piece immersed the viewers in an audiovisual experience and functioned as the kick-off for the festival. It was inspired by the feminist theme of the festival and by the history of the province Drenthe, which is known for its bog bodies.


Opening Act for Filmfestival Assen

“Fractions” is a light & sound installation developed specifically for LUNA 2023, in collaboration with Dutch animation artist Anne Fie Salverda.

It was presented inside the Doopsgezinde church, located right in the city center of Leeuwarden and attracted more than two hundred visitors per hour. The visuals were projected and reflected onto the walls – bent and broken by glass objects – and visualized an abstract dream world.

In “Fractions”, the emphasis lies on contextual sound design: I took field recordings from Leeuwarden and Berlin as a basis and then incorporated musical expressions to create my own interpretation of the animation. The soundscape was played on four
speakers, allowing the sounds to interact with each other and with the space.

Anne Fie and I previously collaborated and created multidisciplinary work for the international project “KOMPOST: try to descibe a place”.



Parts of this installation will also be presented at LIGHTMOVE Festival in Tunis, Tunisia.


"Fractions" at LUNA 2023

I am very grateful to Dolby for a full scholarship to MediaSoundHamburg, an international summer school for game music, film music and sound design. The program includes masterclasses, workshops and lectures as well as some special events like this year's African Night.

Before the summer school, each scholarship holder could choose their own schedule for the week. Some highlights were:

*   Film music Masterclass with Harpa Award winner [Sanna Salmenkallio](http://www.nordicfilmmusicdays.com/sanna-salmenkallio-fin.html) ("Aalto")



*   Sound design Masterclass with Academy Award winner [Nicolas Becker](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065545/) ("Sound of Metal")



*   Lecture on immersive audio with mixing engineer Eric Horstmann of [Immersive Lab](https://www.linkedin.com/company/immersive-laboratories/) (David Guetta, Robin Schulz, Moderat)

Dolby Scholarship to MediaSoundHamburg

Nora Beyer - recollect - Ten Tracks for Film

The first quarter of 2022 I spent composing ten musical pieces for the Medienzentrum (media center) Osnabrück. They are made to be especially suitable for film, as the media center supplies young students with everything they need to realize their film ideas – from technical equipment to film sets to music. Before composing, I considered the various needs of filmmakers and developed the music accordingly, finding a balance between specific statements and general concepts.

You can listen to some of that music here:

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The project received funding from the city of Osnabrück.


recollect: Ten Tracks for Film

Popfabryk, Media Art Friesland, European Media Art Festival and New Noardic Wave invited image makers, visual artists, composers and music producers to participate in a unique edition of KOMPOST.

*KOMPOST: Nahrung für den Geist* creates a free artistic context for a collaborative artist-in-residence in the Frisian countryside, with a focus on the landscape and the role we play in it by eating, living and working there. Ten sound and image makers from the Netherlands and Germany jointly realized an audiovisual production in ten days, using the local landscape as a starting point. The resulting works were presented at Media Art Festival - LUNA in Leeuwarden and at the European Media Art Festival in Osnabrück in 2022. The project won the 'EDR-Grenzpreis'.

At the end of the week, we presented our work to the festival directors and the press. We set up wireless headphones on top of the silo nearby, so that everybody could enjoy a fantastic view over the dike and the fields while listening to the sound piece. After all, this is the landscape that inspired everything this week, from the food we ate to the discussions we had to the art we made. The experience was accompanied by a drink made from beetroot syrup (a very local food), which was also made by one of the artists.

Here’s what the landscape sounded like to me:

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Artist-in-residence

"Scriptnotes" is one of Hollywood's most listened-to podcasts. Listeners can submit original outros to play at the end of episodes.

[The rules](https://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed): *Outros must be a variation on the Scriptnotes five-note intro theme, ideally about 30 seconds in length.*

So far, I have produced four outros for the show in very different styles:

*   High School Musical-themed,

*   Tenet-themed,

*   Gregorian chanting,

*   the Downtown Abbey Theme

Three have been used in the podcast, and the Gregorian chanting one they liked so much, they used it in two different episodes.

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