Some day a colleague told me that they want to make a birthday present for their manager. Everyone should send a picture and write some nice words. And I have been asked to create a nice music.
During lockdown many are in home office and use Microsoft® Teams. The first time when I called my colleague I thought: “What a nice tune.”
Months later shorty before a long weekend I tried to call my colleague. But I only reached the voicemail. I shut down my computer and went into my studio.
I can remember exactly: I was under the shower at the tennis hall we are playing regular in winter season. A smartphone from a colleague outside rang and played a music. I knew this melody, but could not identify it. But I was sure it was something that was played at the Vienna New Year’s Concert. So I listened to all recordings from the past – and I found it in 2018: “Wilhelm Tell-Galopp, op. 29b” from Johann Strauss I.
This inspired me to make a dance version of this famous traditional piece of music.
A TV station broadcasted all James Bond films. The first one (“Dr. No“) contains a scene with Sean Connery and Ursula Andress had a scene where she sang this song.
This inspired me to create this dance version. I took the original vocals from Diana Coupland. It was my first project where I used vocals in this way.
On TV there was a serial remake „M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder“ from the drama-thriller film „M“ created 1931. The film was one of the first to use a leitmotif, a technique borrowed from opera, associating a tune with the main character, who whistles the tune “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1.
I found this tune so inspiring and created a dance track.
I waited at the train station. I had some chords in my head. The train came, but it was not mine. It stopped, people got out and in and it accelerated again and left the station. The sound of the train inspired me. The next day I recorded it and added it to my composition.