In 2011, Franco-Luxembourgish director Beryl Koltz released her first feature movie Hot Hot Hot that was generally well received by critics and audiences; this production was awarded with the Luxembourg film prize in 2012 and also received awards at the Tirana International Film Festival 2011.
Koltz’s new film Soundhunters is a creative musical documentary that will be aired on television channel Arte on 19 September at 22:40 and that reveals the lives of musicians who have all decided to use the sounds of our daily lives as their primary source from which to create music.
It was Pierre Schaeffer, the father of “musique concrète”, whose greatest legacy is electronic music, who invited us to consider music in terms of sounds rather than notes. This way of viewing things opened the way to exploring our natural or urban surroundings, recording all languages and manipulating everyday objects: a leaf in the wind, an effervescent aspirin, a Finnish phoneme or coffee being poured in a cup. Today, every sound can be recorded, hijacked, manipulated and reinvented into an original musical creation.
Soundhunters is a musical expedition that traces the adventure of KIZ, a couple of upcoming musicians, into this world of creating music with natural sounds. From Paris to Malmo, from London to Baltimore, the film witnesses their encounters with exceptional musicians from very different backgrounds and genres, such as Matthew Herbert, Matmos, Chassol, Jean-Michel Jarre, Blixa Bargeld or Cosmo Sheldrake. Integrating the sounds from their journey into exciting musical scenes, KIZ playfully demonstrate how the world can be turned into a limitless music instrument.
The film features Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubauten), Chassol, Cosmo Sheldrake, Jean Michel Jarre, Joseph Bertolozzi, Matthew Herbert, Magnus Börjeson (Sound of Noise) and Matmos. Original Score : KIZ (Alice Chiaverini/Marc Parodi).
