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Bespoke film music ; custom-composed original music created specifically for a particular film or project, offering a unique sonic identity, emotional depth, and a strategic advantage in storytelling.
Soundtracks
Project : We zien ons - Track : Fading Memories
2:01
Project: The Next Thing - Track: End Titles
0:50
Project: War Child - Track: Sahar Meradji's childhood
0:50
Project War Child - Track: Bert in isolation
1:05
Project :30 Days to happiness - Track: Trailer
0:27
Free Work
Recaptured Memories
3:09
An evolving retro synthesiser theme evoking a sense of nostalgia and science fiction. The haunting arpeggio is augmented with snippets of long lost radio broadcast from another time
Atrocities Of War
2:12
A suspenseful dark underscore with distorted textures and lush soundscapes
Illusions
4:50
An ambient electronic score with synthesizers and bowed metal textures
Adagio 2
1:14
A short piece for strings recorded live in London.
Tormented – a one-minute short film by Marlon van der Strigt.
A passionate relationship unravels after an unexpected loss. With no dialogue, the film relies entirely on visuals and music to carry the emotion and drive the story.
Deja Vu - A short film about existentialism by Tijn Severin.
A man living a cloistered live is forced to reconsile with his past and face the consequenses. For this film I created sound design as wel as the soundtrack.
Shadow at the docks - A film by Rogier van Beeck Calkoen.
It’s been weeks since a superyacht sank with five aboard. Now, on a deserted dock, journalist Frank Wells (Sam Garioch) meets a quiet insider (John Vassar), who knows more — but hesitates to show his cards. A subtle but tension bringing underscore was composed to highlight the revelations.
The life coach - A film by Rogier van Beeck Calkoen
When self-help icon L.C. (Malcom Jeffries) opens his final retreat to a new group of seekers, he doesn’t realize one of them — Lynn de Vries (Nanette Boxman) — came not to heal, but to destroy the myth of success he’s built his empire on. The music evolves with the story becoming more eerie as the scene unfolds
Sputnik - a Maxim Zhestkov short film about the evolution of an extraterrestrial mind, and its journey to the light. There is no dialogue or sound design. The story is told only in visuals and music.
Biography
Martijn de Man(1969) started his professional music career as a keyboard-player for the Dutch rockband Urban Heroes. Although he enjoyed performing 'live', he developed a greater interest in composing. After the band split up in 1995, Martijn focused on writing music and established himself as a composer for all kinds of multimedia, like documentaries, television commercials and motion pictures. The choice to become a fulltime composer proved to be the right one - between 1995 and 2001 Martijn composed music for various tv-commercials and documentaries.
Highlights include an 8-channel surround sound production featuring the history of Rotterdam and a Dolby 5.1 Digital track for a Theme Park Ride in China.
2001 was the start of collaboration with independent filmmakers in the USA. Thanks to the possibilities of the internet Martijn was able to participate in projects all over the country from Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco. These projects have given the composer a chance to explore the craft of writing film-music to a deeper level, due to the diversity of movie-projects like Kathy Fitzgerald's Messiah and Jason Santos' Again.
Martijn's style is best described as a mix of classical flavors and electronic counterparts, but more important he understands the craft of writing film-music. It is this talent that filmmakers appreciate most. Martijn is able to craft his music to images, always to support it's impact and never to overule it. Martijn says about it: 'I see myself as a kind of storyteller and actor. The movie is the story and my music should behave as a good actor'.