About
Wolfram Burgtorf
I compose music for documentaries, television films and movies, everything where moving images and sound/music come together. For me, the boundaries between music and sound design are fluid. The noise of an air conditioner has the same dramaturgical meaning for me as a piece of music composed in the classical sense. I like to let both flow together. In doing so, I value an open, unobtrusive character that is Film makes the greatest possible impact. For 25 years I have been working with a wide variety of Directors and have learned from this that everyone has their own style and has different requirements. Communication with each other is therefore particularly important in film music. When language reaches its limits, existing music examples also help.
Although I am hard of hearing from birth and have not received any musical education, I have been working as a freelance film musician for numerous documentaries and film projects (ARTE, ARD, ZDF, WDR, SWR, MDR and NDR) for about 25 years. In addition to composing films, I am working with changing musicians on my music project Solarissound.
