Herman Witkam | Composer for Film



		HOME Herman Witkam composes cinematic music for film, ranging from orchestral to rock, electronic and world music.

				JUNE 23RD 2010 An upcoming project is the feature documentary 'Mila's Journey' by Annie Perkins, on which Herman will again collaborate with sound designer Erik Griekspoor. The score will feature plenty of Indian and Tibetan musical influences.
				MARCH 8TH 2010 Herman is currently working on the final mix of 'Night of Judgement', which will be submitted to multiple festivals. For the score, Herman collaborated with composer Thomas Bensdorp.
				MARCH 5TH 2010 Coming this March 18th to Austin: 'Twisted Vignettes', a evening of films by Jack Daniel Stanley. Herman has scored 5 of Jack's films, and worked on the sound design for his latest short drama 'Depth of Phil', which has been selected for SXSW and premiers March 15th.
				FEBRUARY 25TH 2010 'Depth of Phil' by Herman's frequent collaborator Jack Daniel Stanley has been selected for SXSW. 'The Extraordinary Monday of Herman Brumby' by Ari Levinson has been selected for NYC Downtown Shorts. Also, 'Vancouver in 2010' has been featured by CNN iReport. Click here.
				FEBRUARY 20TH 2010 The online cinematography community DVXUser has interviewed Herman about his work for the DVXUser online film festivals. You can read the full interview by clicking here.
				FEBRUARY 10TH 2010 Herman has composed the score for the short documentary Vancouver in 2010 by filmmaker Albert Art. The score is composed for orchestra and speech samples, which have been edited and stretched to be emphasized by adding melodic patterns. Comments can be posted on the Vimeo page.

				FEBRUARY 1ST 2010 Another new confirmed project is the Kurdish feature film Night of Judgement by Hussein Sewdin, on which Herman will be teaming up with composer Thomas Bensdorp, and performing duduk.
				JANUARY 24th 2010 Herman's score for the Burmese feature "Shadows of the Past" is now available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic and Rhapsody. Over the next few months Herman will be working on the score for "Heaven Burns", and a feature documentary yet to be named. More info will be posted soon. In the meanwhile, enjoy the samples from the "Shadows" score in the music player.
				OCTOBER 5th 2009 This friday October 9th at the New Beverly Cinema, L.A. there will be a special screening of Golden Earrings. Herman has composed an original song used throughout the film. For more information, click here.
				SEPTEMBER 20th 2009 Coming up September 24th at the Downtown Independent in LA there will be a screening of the first episode of Erik Reese's "Sverige", for which Herman has composed the score. The film will be screening along with two other films by Sabi Pictures. For more info, click here. The Australian short film "Chasing Kangaroos" (Noel Evans) has placed 3rd in the DVXUser annual screening event in LA. Herman composed the music. At the upcoming Netherlands Film Festival, there'll be screenings of the shorts "With Love" (Beri Shalmashi), "Strike", "Brother's Keeper" (Martijn Smits), "Diorama" (Elly Bouman) and "Who is She" (Ruben Pest). All these shorts contain music and/or sound design by Herman. Having completed work on the "Shadows of the Past", Herman will soon be working on the score for Justin Beckenheimer's debut feature "Heaven Burns". Another project lined up is Erik Reese's "Sverige", produced by Sabi Pictures. Herman will score multiple episodes. The series is inspired by Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski's "The Decalogue".
				JUNE 29th 2009 Herman will be scoring the Burmese / Swiss film 'Shadows of the Past' produced by Aung Thura and directed by Sin Yaw Mg Mg. The narrative drama feature is approximately 2 hours long and shot in both Switzerland and Myanmar. Other projects include the shorts 'Luwte' by Naäma Palfrey and 'Brumby Monday' by Aaron Valen and the TV pilot episode Kilgore TX, directed by Dennis Shin and produced by Ryan Scott, in which Herman will once again collaborate with sound designer Erik Griekspoor.
				FEBRUARY 12th 2009 Short Film Scores is now available on iTunes, Amazon US, Amazon UK, Rhapsody, Napster and eMusic. For pricing and full track listing, please check out some of the retailer links.
				FEBRUARY 9th 2009 A collection of Herman´s scores for short films will soon be available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, Napster and Rhapsody. The album will be released first February 12th on Amazon.com. Click here to view the details and pre-listen to the tracks. This includes Herman´s score for Aaron Valen's Learning to Fly, of which 2 tracks have been uploaded to the music page. Some of Herman's music can now be licensed for film and other media productions using the licensing tool on the music page. To view more detailed info on the tracks available for licensing, visit Herman's page at YouLicense.
				DECEMBER 30th 2008 A Little Mouth to Feed wil screen at the upcoming Slamdance Festival! For more info, click here! Also, we would like to wish you a happy and creative New Year!
				NOVEMBER 24th 2008 Herman will score the feature film Passersby (original title: Voorbijgangers) by Dutch director Fabian van Dongen. The film is currently in production. Herman will also supervise the sound post-production of the film.
				SEPTEMBER 29th 2008 Martijn Smit's film Brother's Keeper has won the Shocking Shorts Award at the 27th Netherlands Film Festival. Amongst the jurors were Rutger Hauer (Blade Runner, Sin City) and Jean van de Velde (Wild Romance, All Stars). Herman composed the score for Brother's Keeper in collaboration with Sid Barnhoorn. Also at the Netherlands film festival, the graduation film Anna by Ruben Pest is screening. Herman composed the score and did the sound design & surround mix.