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Adriaan Swerts
12+ albums
about
Adriaan Swerts is a Belgian film composer. He learned to read sheet music and play the clarinet and the piano at a young age. Since his childhood he has also had a lot of imagination and a passion for film. In the course of his adolescence, he developed a passion for creating innovative sounds with old synthesizers, guitars, samplers and he built his own recording studio. These experiments lead to the creation of two pop albums with his band. When he started composing for film later on, both the classical education and the contemporary elements came together. He often creates a subtle hybrid mix between the orchestral and synthetic. His first soundtrack (2006) was written for a theatre play. After this, he wrote a composition for modern ballet titled "Song for the Universe". Since then he discovered the narrative aspect of his music and continued further in the direction of film. In 2011 two short films, which he scored, won prizes: “Crayon D’Amour” by Gert Driesen won the ‘public prize for Best Animation Film’ at the Leuven International Short Film Festival and “Cockaigne” by Emilie Verhamme got a honorable mention at the Ghent Film Festival. In 2012 “Cockaigne” was also nominated in the short film competition for the ‘Film Festival of Cannes 2012’. Currently he is working on several soundtracks for new animation - and fiction films. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
