
Crimson Noise is the studio of film composer Dominik Scherrer and
is based in the Old Truman Brewery in Londons East End. It
is also the home of Taxi Val Mentek,
the avant-garde pop band / video art duo.
Dominik Scherrer has written the award winning score and theme
for the Miss Marple series with Geraldine McEwan,
the sci-fi hit series Primeval, the comedy Scenes
of a Sexual Nature and the apocalyptic Nine Lives
of Tomas Katz,amongst many others.
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| 2.8.08:
Primeval opens in the US on BBC
America on Saturday 9th August 2008. Lead actor
Douglas Henshall and creator Tim Haines went to LA to
promote the sci-fi show.
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| 29.4.08:
Dominik Scherrer's charming and elegant score for the
comedy Scenes of a Sexual Nature, starring
Ewan McGregor and Sophie Okonedo is released on Film
Music Downloads, and is also available on iTunes.
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| 13.12.07:
Riprendimi (US title: Good Morning
Heartache) directed by Anna Negri will be premiered
at the Jan 08 Sundance Festival and features a new score
by Dominik Scherrer
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| 8.8.07:
Dominik Scherrer's haunting soundtrack for the movie
The Honeytrap is released on CD, availbale
from the usual outlets including Amazon
and iTunes.
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| 16.4.07:
Life Line, a two-part supernatural
love story written by Stephen Gallagher, starring Joanne
Whalley and Ray Stevenson, with music by Dominik Scherrer,
will air April 24th and April 26th on BBC One.
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| 11.4.07:
Three DVD releases with scores by Dominik: Scenes
of a Sexual Nature, Primeval,
and The
Honeytrap - all available from the usual outlets.
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| 12.2.07:
On Saturday the first episode of ITV's sci-fi series
Primeval
attracted an impressive 7 million viewers.
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| 15.12.06:
Dominik has created the score for the new £6m
sci-fi drama Primeval. Impossible Pictures
produced the six parter, which will follow a team of
scientists into prehistoric times through black holes.
Will be on broadcast on ITV1 early 2007. see imdb.
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| Scenes
of a Sexual Nature UK cinema release date announced:
3 November 2006. The sexually charged comedy stars Eileen
Atkins, Ewan McGregor, Gina McKee, Sophie Okonedo, Catherine
Tate and many more. See IMDB.
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| Dominik
scored 4 new Miss Marple films. The first of the new
series, Sleeping Murder stars Sophia Myles, Dawn
French, Russ Abbott, Martin Kemp. The next, The Moving
Finger with Harry Enfield, Ken Russell, Kelly Brook...
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nationwide release in the UK starting 13th January 2006:
feature film The Truth, an outrageous murder
mystery for the "Me Generation" starring Elaine
Cassidy, Elizabeth McGovern, Rachael Stirling, William
Beck, Karl Theobald. Watch
the trailer and listen to Dominik's vocals-based
score.
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| Dominik
scored Jericho (4 x 2h), a thrilling period crime
drama series on ITV, starring BAFTA winner Robert Lindsay
as Chief Inspector Michael Jericho of Scotland Yard,
investigating high-profile murders in 1950s London.
Set in a fascinating period of Britains social
history, London saw an explosion of colour and shifting
attitudes after the Second World War.
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Nine Lives of Tomas Katz won the Best Score
Award at the Estepona Fantasy and Horror Festival
in October. The film also won Best Director. The Best
film award went to Dario Argento's new film "No
ho sonno".
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| Out
now:Revival Indus: Night in Bengal. produced
by Dominik Scherrer and tablaist Dilly Meah, featuring
Hemel "Dr Pop" Muksed and Babul Rahman (voc).
Dilly and Dominik will travel to Dhaka, Calcutta and
Chittagong by to record another raga - dance crossover
album with Bengali rock singers and traditional instrumentalists.
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| 6.1.08:
Primeval Season 2 starts Saturday 12th
January on ITV1.
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| 24.01.07:
Two DVDs released: George Milton's The Truth
("A highly satifying, slighly intelligent, engagingly
fresh film" - Time Out) and Bill Eagles' Dracula,
both with scores by Dominik Scherrer
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| 15.12.06
Dominik has completed the score for Stewart Harcourt's
new adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Starring Marc Warren, Sophia Myles and David Suchet.
Transmission on BBC1, 28 Dec 06, 9PM. see imdb
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| 4.10.06
Dominik has just completed his score for the Parallel
Pictures movie Two Families. Set in
southern Italy's gangland, it stars Casper Zafer and
Richard Johnson. see imdb
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ITV Sunday 7.5.06 at 9pm: If I had you. Sarah
Parish stars in this one-off crime drama as DI Sharon
Myers, who returns to her hometown in the picturesque
Peak District . Also starring Paul McGann, Mark Benton
and Poppy Miller. Dominik's score was recorded with
the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in Prague.
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| 10.4.06:
Dominik has completed the musical score for Scenes
of a Sexual Nature, a romantic comedy starring Ewan
McGregor, Tom Hardy, Sophie Okonedo, Gina McKee, Hugh
Bonneville, directed by Ed Blum. See more information
and discussion on IMDB.
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| Dominik's
score for Miss Marple wins the World Gold Medal for
Best Original Music at the New York Festival International
Television Programming Awards 2006.
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| Dominik's
theme tunes for both Miss Marple and Jericho
are on ITV 50 The Album - 50 Of The Best All
Time ITV Theme Tunes. The CD is out on Virgin EMI and
in the shops now.
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| The
DVD Box Set is out and there are a further 4 episodes
in the making of ITV's EMMY Nominated series
MARPLE. Dominik's soundtrack will be released
on CD in 2006.
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On UK TV, the lush Scottish Widows ad, set in
the theatre, directed by Sandra Goldbacher, with Dominik
Scherrer's score featuring the singers Shahin Badar
and Amanda Floyd. Watch it (9MB).
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| Dominik
Scherrer scored ITV's new series of films AGATHA
CHRISTIE' MARPLE starring Geraldine McEwan. The
celebrated British actress plays the role of the shrewd
and inquisitive Miss Marple in this co-production with
WGBH Boston. Geraldine is joined by Simon Callow, Jack
Davenport, Tara Fitzgerald, James Fox, Sienna Guillory,
Keeley Hawes, Derek Jacobi, Joanna Lumley, Ben Miller,
Janet McTeer, Elaine Page, Robert Pugh, Ian Richardson,
Rachael Sterling, Jamie Theakston, David Walliams and
Zoe Wanamaker.
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| On
History Channel: WE CAN MAKE YOU TALK The treatment
of suspects in the War on Terror held at Guantanamo
Bay has sparked a firestorm of controversy, much centering
around the methods that military investigators use to
extract information from these putative terrorists.
In this riveting, feature-length exposé, HISTORY
SUNDAY blends documentary and live-action demonstrations
to chronicle the development of interrogation techniques
and show how suspects surrender information. Score:
D. Scherrer
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Out now: DVD Hidden and Undone a collection of
films and animations by Taxi
Val Mentek. Available on
this website. There is also a new Taxi Val Mentek Website
with lots of pictures.
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In
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TV, Crimson Noise now provide a complete solution for broadcast
post-production: ADR, sound edit, dub, voice overs with ProTools
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1:1.
Current TV programmes, where post production was handled entirely
in-house:
GIL SCOTT-HERON: THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED This
documentary from Grammy-winning director Don Letts looks at the
godfather of rap's significance to music and civil rights.
Scott-Heron's confrontational, no-nonsense street poetry and songwriting
skills have inspired the modern Hip-Hop generation.
BBC4 Friday
5 December 2003 10pm-11pm; rpt Sunday 7 December 12.05am-1.05am
SOUND
TRAVELS series with Joe Mace and Tom Findlay (Groove Armada)
is your essential guide to where and how the likes of Fatboy Slim,
Noel Gallagher, PJ Harvey, Bjork, Damon Albarn and Chris Martin
earned their rock 'n' roll spurs.
Channel 4 - Fridays
DECODED:
THE MAKING OF MATRIX RELOADED & REVOLUTIONS Two documentaries.
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