Leo Brennauer
Leo Brennauer
Portfolio and internship application | L.A.
Portfolio and internship application | L.A.
Selected pieces
LOCUS FINALE
- Composed, Orchestrated, Produced, Conducted
- Recorded @ Budapest Scoring Orchestra & ZHdK
"Locus Finale" is my first piece that was actually recorded with a real 60 piece orchestra. It's a soundtrack suite I wrote for the short movie "Remove hind legs before consumption" which I scored earlier in 2022. The piece contains classical orchestra-sounds and blends them with gentle synth sounds created with my MOOG Grandmother. The piece tells the journey of a small, brave, albeit tender grasshopper named "Locus".
DEEPWATER FLUTE ELECTRO
- Composed, Produced, Mixed
- Recorded @ ZHdK - Remotesession
For this piece, I decided to only go with one recorded Instrument: The Flute. What you hear is a double bass flute, processed in various ways, as well as an 808 drum machine.
WALTZ FOR MURIEL
- Composed, Mixed
- Recorded @ ZHdK
This piece was written for my cousin. Muriel was diagnosed with bone cancer in 2021 and had to endure many chemotherapy treatments as a result. When I wrote this song, she had just finished her 17th therapy and was diagnosed with lung spread. I wrote this song in hopes of giving her hope for a speedy recovery and dancing along to this waltzer soon. Now, months later, to all of our relief, Muriel is doing much better.
Jessica Jones Intro
- Arranged, Produced, Mixed
- Recorded @ ZHdK
With this piece, I wanted to use the 5-horns brass band in an unconventionell way. I edited the brass with quite some effects and made them fit together with the sounds of my Moog-Synthesizer.
Skills for interning /assist
Technical Skills
- Piano, drums, recorder and guitar
- Scoring for film and media
- Engineering (Studio- & Mix-Session preperation, recording, editing, mixing)
- DAW editing, producing
- Workflow enhancement
lemur, touchosc, expressionmaps, keymakros, autohotkey - Scorewriting, -reading, -analysis
- Filmmaking (filming, editing)
Software
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Cubase, ProTools, Studio One, Ableton Live, DP
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Kontakt, Dorico, Sibelius, Lemur, Max, many VIs & VSTs
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Adobe Premiere, Photoshop
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Autohotkey
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Microsoft Office (Word, Ppt, Excel VBA)
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WordPress
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Google Suite
Text me when you're home
- Composed, Orchestrated, Produced
- Recorded @ ZHdK
The orchestra in this piece was recorded doing various contemporary playing techniques, mostly leaded improvisation to picture using streamer and punches. The main instrument and effect-machine is a 50+ year old Bavarian zither edited and played in unique ways.
This snippet is part of the film score I did for the animation-short "Text me when youre home" in 2022 by Noa Dahlheimer.
Exercube Trailer
- Composed, Produced, Mixed
- Recorded @ Home
KINGSMAN 2 POPPY LAND
- Composed, Produced, Mixed
- Recorded @ ZHdK - Remotesession
Another semester, another great studio session. This time, I composed, arranged and mixed a 4 horn section (trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone). They played together with a jazz-ensemble consisting of drum, bass and piano. The studio took place via zoom, which was ok. I'd still prefer beeing there.
SPRING AT DOLDENSEE
- Composed, Mixed
- Recorded @ ZHdK - Remotesession
This is one of my first classical pieces only written for performance.
The Doldensee is a small lake close to my hometown Peiting, where I used to swim almost every week during summer. We even filmed the music video for our band Rigoros on and in this lake.
ELECTRO MEETS CLASSIC
- Composed, Produced, Mixed
- Recorded @ ZHdK & Home-Studio
Beyond Webseries - Trailer
- Composed, Mixed
- Recorded @ Home-Studio
POP MEDLEY
- Arranged, Played
- Recorded @ Home-Studio
MELODIE - Rigoros (my former band)
- Composed, Arranged, Produced
- Recorded @ Superphonic & Alex Maschke
About
I’m Leo Brennauer, a composer and musician from germany, studying composition for film, theatre and media at the Zurich University of Arts, currently living close to Santa Monica (Los Angeles / USA).
I compose, play the piano, drums, recorder, percussion and guitar. My musical interests are varried and diverse. I have played in rock bands, a jazz ensemble, church ensembles, and other pop bands. Furthermore I played percussion in a humber of symphonic string- and brass-orchestras.
Before returning to school to study composition, I did an aprenticeship and worked full time in a musical instrument store and also worked part-time in a studio for several years. Afterwards, I did my Bachelor Profesional of Trade and Commerce (CCI). My one year study in percussion rock pop jazz ultimately led me to my current studies.
Besides my musical interests, I love beeing in nature: Running, cycling, mountain climbing, ski touring, scuba diving, playing tennis, backpacking, camping and many other nice things. As another hobby I like to cook, film, program websites or sometimes build things out of wood and metal in the workshop.
Credits
Composer-Credits
- 2022 | Lichtfestival | Luzern
- 2022 | Remove hind legs before consumption | Finn Meisner, Leslie Herzig & Lukas Wind | Shortfilm
- 2022 | Text me when you’re home | Nora Dahlheim, Joanna Lang | Shortfilm
- 2022 | Hold me tight | Natasha Sebben | Videogame
- 2021 | Menschenpflanzen | Angelika Federer | Shortfilm
- 2021 | Beyond Webseries | Lia Studerer, Lucie Bachmann | Series
- 2021 | Lichtfestival Luzern | Shortfilm
- 2021 | Turned On | Sabine Burchhard | Shortfilm
- 2020 | Gigeria | Pascal Felber | Game (Bachelor Project)
- 2020 | Grossstadtdschungel | Shortfilm (Bachelor Project)
- 2020 | Asteroid | HSLU | Advertisement
- 2020 | ExerCube League | Trailer
- 2019 | Nachtrausch | Shortfilm
- 2019 | Jagdzeit | Trailer
- 2018 | Oman Offroad | Trailer
Other Credits / Experience
- 2021 | Von Edvard, Iselin und dem Regen | Theatre
- 2021 | Argile Argile | Pop-Song
- 2019 | Tardiki | Pop-Song
- 2019 | Johannes | Pop-Song
- 2017 | Pop-Songs (Ghostwriter)
- 2015-2019 | Rigoros | Multiple Pop-Songs
- Live-Bands (Piano, Drums, Flute)
- Orchestras (Percussion, Drums)
- 2012-2019 | Salesmen @ Musicshop (Kirstein)