Salon Stolz

For the music pavilion and the ‘Life Stage’ of Robert Stolz, we were allowed to design the stations in the museum with our sound design in close collaboration with the Salon Stolz team and FH Joanneum.

For the Virtual Conductor, we were guests at the Graz Opera and recorded the Graz Philharmonic with a VR camera and a complex 3D audio setup. In a VR game programmed by FH Joanneum, you stand as a conductor in front of the orchestra and can control the tempo and volume of the piece.

For the Life Stage, we also recorded a radio play about the life of Robert Stolz from the perspective of the instruments with the orchestra. Twenty-one pieces were composed for this, which we recorded, edited, and intertwined with the voice actors into an entertaining story.

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For additional stations, such as a sound memory game, a composing machine, or the instrument cube, we let our creativity run free to create interactive and inclusive experiences..

VR-Experience: Wunderland (2023)

Location Sound, Sound Design, 3D-Audio Mix

The new virtual reality film from Schauspielhaus Graz, “Wunderland,” written and directed by Kurdwin Ayub, premiered at the Diagonale’23. In the film, director Kurdwin Ayub takes us back to childhood by showing everyday life through the eyes of a little girl.

What does the daily life of a child sound like from their perspective in a high chair, on the floor, or between sleeping parents? Which sounds become more significant, and what sounds particularly threatening to children in a nightmare? Sound designer Eli Frauscher had a lot of fun exploring these questions and discovering new sound perspectives.

While sitting in a cave with a VR headset on and headphones with 3D sound, you experience how Mama (Maresi Riegner) and Papa (Valentin Postlmayr) take care of you. They are many things: artists, hipsters, millennials, but they are not happy.

In the modern world, a woman doesn’t always have to sacrifice her life and dreams for a child. In “Wunderland,” it’s Papa whose career is put on hold as he takes care of the child at home while Mama is successful. The child comes first. Its dreams are secondary, and conflict is inevitable. A storm rages outside, and it’s not much more peaceful inside the apartment. Love and anger alternate until everything culminates in a nightmare. In the end, Mama and Papa stay together, just like many parents stay together for too long.

“The Life of Sean DeLear” (2023, Audio Post production)

“Sean DeLear (1964-2017) was a magnificently flamboyant, exuberantly transgressive figure who enchanted the music and art underground of Los Angeles in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But with the posthumous release of his equally intimate and explicit teenage diaries from 1979 in 2022, he revealed himself as a truly groundbreaking cultural figure: I Could Not Believe It is the joyful chronicle of the experiences of a young Black, queer, and creative person finding his identity, voice, and style—decades before Barry Jenkins’ (much more subdued) film Moonlight.

The Life of Sean DeLear is a vibrantly diverse, lively documentary portrait of this irresistibly charismatic one-of-a-kind individual, designed in a celebratory yet commendably clear style by writer and director Markus Zizenbacher.” (Neil Young)

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Director Markus Zizenbacher entrusted us with the task of interweaving the archival Super-8 tapes with the current original audio from the interviews.

Interactive sound installations for FRida &freD museum


For FRida & freD we planned and designed an interactive sound experience for kids at the age of 3 to 8. Exciting things to discover were a custom song:

https://music.apple.com/de/artist/t%C3%BCftelm%C3%A4use/1186861085

The other parts of the audio installation included a 8-channel sound installation spanning a large area of the exhibition with stories about mice told only with sound effects. Duration: One hour.

The song “Tüftelmäuse” was also available at a machine with variable playback speed of the song.

FRida & freD webiste post: https://kimus.at/portfolio/die-tueftelmaeuse/
FRida & freD on Ecsite network: https://www.ecsite.eu/members/directory/frida-fred-graz-childrens-museum

“Chef Dynasty: House of Fang” (2022) DE

Chef and restaurateur Kathy Fang is ready to expand the business of Fang, the restaurant she co-owns in San Francisco with her father, Peter, while continuing to honor their roots with Chinese fusion dishes.

For this Reality-TV Show we did Sound Editing and Sound Effects.

It is currently being streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

Series produced by: Jordan Doran, Matthew Pickel and James J. Gutierrez

Sound Editing and Sound Effects by Horst Schnattler, Eli Frauscher and Florian Kettenbach

Mixing: Mayer Sound, Erich Rettermayer and Jeremy Barr

“Chef Dynasty: House of Fang” (2022)

Chef and restaurateur Kathy Fang is ready to expand the business of Fang, the restaurant she co-owns in San Francisco with her father, Peter, while continuing to honor their roots with Chinese fusion dishes.

For this Reality-TV Show we did Sound Editing and Sound Effects.

It is currently being streamed on Amazon Prime Video.

Series produced by: Jordan Doran, Matthew Pickel and James J. Gutierrez

Sound Editing and Sound Effects by Horst Schnattler, Eli Frauscher and Florian Kettenbach

Mixing: Mayer Sound, Erich Rettermayer and Jeremy Barr

“Talenteschmiede Blasmusik” (2022)

Presentation of the ORF-Documentation

Brass music is enthusiasm on many levels. This “Erlebnis Österreich” documentary is dedicated to the many facets of brass music and accompanies personalities whose different lives have been shaped by music. We were responsible for the sound design and mixing.

Broadcast dates:
18.12., 16:30 on ORF 2
https://tv.orf.at/program/orf2/erlebnisoe940.html

On 12.12.2022, the documentary was presented at the Landesstudio Steiermark, in the presence of, among others, Landeshauptmann Drexler, Landesstudiodirektor Koch, the team and many contributors.

PRODUCTION: PoschTV

“Kleine Welt – ganz groß. Das Geheimnis der Wiese” (2022)

What does the world of insects sound like?

For this “Erlebnis Österreich” documentary dedicated to the magical, hidden and endangered life of Styrian natural meadows, our sound designer Eli set the meadow inhabitants to music.

Broadcast dates:
March 13, 4:28 p.m. on ORF 2
April 11, 20:15 on 3Sat

https://tv.orf.at/program/orf2/erlebnisoe420.html


DIRECTOR: Waltraud Paschinger
CAMERA: Franz Posch
PRODUCTION: Ursula Merzeder
EDIT: Lukas Kogler
SOUND EDIT and SOUND DESIGN: Eli Frauscher
SOUND MIXING: Christopher Frank

NINE BULLETS, Thriller Feature Film, USA 2022

We hung on the lips of Game of Thrones actress Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister) and Sam Worthington (Avatar). For “9 Bullets” we did ADR cueing, which means sorting and transcribing the text passages that are recorded in the film after the fact.

Cast: Lena Headey (“Cersei Lannister” in Game of Thrones), Dean Scott Valesquez, Sam Worthington (Avatar)
Mix & Sound Design: Alan Audio Works, Jeffery Alan Jones
To IMDB-Entry of NINE BULLETS

You can find more about our work for films here
“9 BULLETS” will be released on April 22 in USA.