Rens Machielse - Media composer
Rens Machielse composes and produces sound and music for moving images such as fiction, documentary and especially animation in close collaboration with Willem Schneider (Studio Masch). Both have long standing and award winning careers as composer and sound designer. His music has been awarded with a.o. the Stemra Music Award and a Gold Medal Best Original Score New York Festivals. Examples of his music can be found on SoundCloud. In 2020 Rens and Willem completed the sound track for the short animation film See Me which won the The Gouden Kalf Award for the Best Short Film 2020 at the Dutch Film Festival and the Best Dutch Short Award at the Kaboom Festival 2021. See Me was selected for a variety of international film festivals such as the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. In the following years they worked on a variety of animation films such as Balcony Cacophony, FLY, Love on the Edge and Crumble with animators such as Mackenzie Fincham, Anselm Oetel and Lemon Bandit. FLY was selected at the Dutch Film Festival 2022 for the Best Short Film Award. The soundtrack of Balcony Cacophony was nominated for the Peer Raben Music Award 2023.
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Media composer Rens Machielse provides insight into the creation of the animation film Balcony Cacophony and the accompanying soundtrack.
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