Renowned Berlin composer, sound designer and musician Simon Stockhausen develops music for Films, TV and Documentaries, and also composes music for theatre and contemporary music ensembles. As a musician (keyboards, piano, electronics and soprano sax), Simon has performed with Lalo Shifrin, Vince Mendoza, Peter Erskine, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and Australian trumpeter James Morrison. In collaboration with his brother, trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, they have released numerous CDs for ECM, EMI and Largo.
Alien Spaceship taking off with deep rumbling and pulsating engine sounds accelerating and getting brighter, binaural panning in the end phase of the takeoff, Science Fiction,
Dense electronic texture sounding like metallic rain tuned in wholetones, slowly sweeping through the entire frequency range, Multimedia, Metallic sounds
Fast slide over the lower strings of a broken piano with a metal wire - glissando upwards - decaying - souding like an old cittern, Impact, Piano Impact
Playing a rhythmical pattern on the lower strings of a broken piano with drumsticks, ritarding and getting lower towards the end, some deep rattling string accents at the end, Impact, Piano Impact
Spooky horror texture in a warping space with scraping metal noises, deep rumbling, voicelike murmuring, occasional impacts and howling glissandi - ideal for horror scenes in haunted houses and dungeons, Horror & Halloween, Horror ambience
Horrifying Soundscape with a variety of natural and electronic metal sounds, big slamming doors and deep impacts and a timestretched scream over a constantly morphing scraping bass drone - the ideal soundscape for all sorts of horror movie scenes, Horror & Halloween, Nightmares
Timestretched metal string sounds morphed with samples of hammers hitting on steel and wood, slow formant modulation added resulting in a strange and hypnotic sitarlike drone texture, calming down towards the end, Multimedia, Metallic sounds
Scraping the strings of a broken piano rhythmically with a broom - sounding like hip hop scratches - begins with a low wooden accent, Impact, Piano Impact
Scraping the strings of a broken piano rhythmically with a broom - sounding like hip hop scratches - low accents reminding of kickdrums, Impact, Piano Impact
Hitting the strings of a piano with a metal chain and dragging it over the wood of the resonance body - scraping, rattling and hitting sounds, Impact, Piano Impact
Treating the strings and resonance body of a piano with a metal chain - scraping, rattling and hitting sounds, strings resonating, Impact, Piano Impact
