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RENE AHOUD - FILM MUSIC COMPOSER

Film music composer. Storytelling music for films, documentaries, television, commercials, art projects, booktrailers, audiobooks, podcasts, audiotours and AV productions. Custom tracks or scores can be commissioned but you can also browse the recently launched music library: Sound Imagery.

Composing for choreography and studying Sonology at the conservatory in The Hague lead to a sound-engineering course at the School of Audio Engineering, audio-post production and work for radio and television, culminating in the birth of the Johnny Raw Studio in 2006. I composed for radio&television, a Universal music library and various artists. I performed live at the Lowlands festival and various theatres.

Gradually I developed a passion for composing music for film and “other storytelling content”. I composed music for the British/Dutch feature Sunset Contract and three documentaries about the past, present and future of the Dutch cycling culture.

Working and cooperating on music for picture and stories feels like my natural habitat, always focusing on giving a story more impact. Currently I am working on tracks for artists, art projects as well as commissioned work and tracks for music library Sound Imagery.

GIVING A STORY MORE IMPACT!

RENE AHOUD - FILM SCORE COMPOSER - THE JOHNNY RAW STUDIO

I have always been very much fascinated by the experiment that both music and sound seemed to invite me to, especially in relation to image. Since I decided to only focus on music for film and “other storytelling content”, I am very passionately in search of what makes me “typically me”!

To get to the core of storytelling music, in my case, emphasis is put on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure thus focusing on creating the right mood and giving a story more impact. I made music for art projects, worked on 3D music and sound projects incorporating field-recording and reconsidered my niche.

Doing so, I found an authentic way to balance all these elements, using both tradition and experiment.

What I enjoy most? My aim is to add a new dimension to the musical palette while optimally contributing to your project.

NFF AUDIO REELS

1. THE TENSION AND THEME BUILD-UP AUDIO REEL

2. THE BROADER EMOTIONAL SCOPE AUDIO REEL

IN PRODUCTION

DRIFT

Sound and motion – animal behavior research on basis of field-recording and motion patterns.

Bats Tonedust 5:56

THE LONE RANGER, HIS WIFE AND HER DOG

The tracks from this Tonedust EP are the score for a black&white found footage western (short – coming soon).

The Lone Ranger Tonedust 2:43
Her Dog Tonedust 3:46

FLOOD – AN IMAGINARY DELUGE

Flood is the soundtrack to an AV installation.

8 tranquil musical works that set the mood for 8 scenes.

8 scenes that in some way relate to “land disappearing underwater”.

The presented image conveys the tranquil and menacing atmosphere.

The project is kindly supported by BUMA Investeringsfonds Muziek

Where Eagles Dare Tonedust 5:39
Reap What You Have Sown Tonedust 4:20
The Calm Before the Storm Tonedust 6:58

INTERFERENCE

INTERFERENCE, a spacious 3D music event / sound walk in Amsterdam, is a meditation on urban interaction. It focuses on contribution to a stronger connection with the surrounding urban area through both embracement and detachment. All aspects involved in the “urban experience” qualify for this interaction. The structures, the open space, the dwellings, the river, the trees, the people, the intimate stories as well as the melancholy and beauty of a distant skyline. Everything that might remind us of the scale of our compromise. The everyday beauty, the lost beauty, the hidden gems. There to be revealed.

Nine 3D widescreen music-scenes are composed for nine locations in Amsterdam. The result will be something in between a sound walk, a computer-game, a soundtrack and a shared listening experience.

Interference consists of an abstract 3D sound entourage as well as “musical islands”. Some of the tracks included are available below.

The project is kindly supported by Sena Muziekproductiefonds.

https://youtu.be/Ue1HY99zYQ8

Introspection Tonedust 3:32
Moving Space in Between Tonedust 4:57
Attached Tonedust 4:04
Anthem Tonedust 3:10

FILM

DOCUMENTARY TOGETHER WE CYCLE

THE MASTERPLAN 0:58
RECENTLY 1:38
OUTSIDE THE CITIES 1:55
THE TITLES 2:06

The film Together we cycle investigates the critical events that led to the revival of the Dutch cycling culture. Many people think that cycling in the Netherlands is a natural phenomenon. However, until the 1970s the development of mobility in the Netherlands followed trends across the globe. The bicycle had had its day, and the future belonged to the car. The only thing that had to be done was to adapt cities to the influx of cars.

DOCUMENTARY WHY WE CYCLE

LOOK BACK 2:40
CITYRIDE 1:53
EXIT 1:08
EXIT TITLES 1:15

To the Dutch, cycling is as normal as breathing. We don’t think about it, we just do it. Perhaps the fact that we don’t think about it, is the key to the bicycle’s success in this country. But because we do not give cycling a second thought, we don’t really know what the deeper needs of cyclists are. In the documentary ‘Why we cycle’ we take a ride with ordinary cyclists and specialists from a variety of disciplines. These conversations uncover some obvious, but even more hidden effects of cycling on people, on societies, and on the organization of cities.

FEATURE FILM SUNSET CONTRACT

SUNSET CONTRACT OPENING 0:48
THE CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY INTRO 1:42
HOW BRAD MEETS MARY 2:55
STICKS AND SWORDS 2:31
CONVERSATION OF THE DAY 1:38

Music and audio post production for both film and trailer.

In this modern folktale, social media CEO Brad meets a mysterious woman in his beautiful new beach villa. She confronts him with a contract he can’t remember agreeing to. “To be executed before sunset – that would be nice”. Unaware of her sinister intentions, he struggles to get rid of her. When his sceptical girlfriend Mary suddenly appears, he finds himself bounced about by two fiery women.

What once looked like an ordinary agreement suddenly turns out to be a matter of life and death.

MUSIC LIBRARY

SOUND IMAGERY is is a music library, composed by Rene Ahoud.

Sound Imagery, launched recently, is comprising of storytelling, cinematic and atmospheric tracks or plain simple melodic quirky tunes. The music feels “organic and human”. The library consists of pre-made tracks that can be customized and licensed. Custom tracks or scores can be commissioned. Are you working on films, documentaries, commercials or any imagery or online content that needs supportive and original music? Find out how Sound Imagery can give your story more impact!

The launch of Sound Imagery was kindly supported by BUMA Investeringsfonds Muziek.

Sound Imagery · Suggestion

More tracks available at SOUND IMAGERY…

ARTISTS

TONEDUST is a soloproject by Rene Ahoud focussing on 2D and 3D organic electro-acoustic music and soundscapes. The music often has an ambient, experimental, cinematic or in some respects minimal character. Emphasis can be on acoustic or electronic qualities, it always puts perception, atmosphere and creating a sound-image first.

Tonedust currently has three projects in production, Interference, Flood and Dwelling Places. Guest musicians: Eduardo Blanco (trumpet), Eva Boon (vocals).

22 OUMUAMUA is an ambient, electro-acoustic and jazz music duo from Amsterdam, consisting of Jack de Jong and Rene Ahoud. The basis for 22 Oumuamua tracks is guitar and wind instruments improvisation using life electronics. The goal is to create sound images that support deep listening.