Ralf Hildenbeutel is a musician, composer, producer and labelowner. From the early age of nine, through his classical education in piano and composing, Ralf Hildenbeutel became familiar with composers such as Debussy, Bach, Chopin and Satie.

In the ninties, he produced the albums of Sven Väth on the legendary EYE-Q label, he made an endless number of remixes for artists such as Anne Clark, Robert Palmer and Yello, he toured live with his electronic/dance project EARTH NATION and released the award winning soundtrack Hommage á Noir. Through such work, Ralk Hildenbeutel contributed significantly to the most influential music movement of the time.

1997 was the time for new direction. With the production team Schallbau,he became one of the most succesful producers in Germany with production and co-writes for artists such as Laith Al-Deen (5 Gold Albums incl. 4 Top Ten), Yvonne Catterfield (4 Gold/Platinum Albums) and Simon Collins.
During his time in London between 2003 and 2006, he succesfully made production and co-writings for internatinal artists and projects. In the meantime he worked regularly on several scores (Mondscheintarif, Be.Angeled, Reine Formsache…).

In 2008 he founded his new own label Rebecca & Nathan. This platform allowed him to combine electronic and acoustic music both as an artist and producer, he also developed artists such as Cargo City.

Ralf Hildenbeutel has been awarded with the VIVA Comet as best producer and also with the Goldmedal Award for Score on the New York Filmfestival.

(Official Press-Info, 2008)

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Music has been a part of film almost since the beginning of motion pictures. Music originally had a practical use: to keep the audience from talking and to dull the sound of the noisy projector.
Today, music is used in various ways in movies: as part of the story as in musicals, as background music within the story (e.g. when the protagonist turns on the radio) and as background music to which only the audience is privy. It is used to compliment the film. Though the film score is intended to be subtle, it is far from inconsequential. The music adds to the emotional quality of the film.

What a Witch is a very visual shortmovie with almost no dialogue. Music therefore, plays a big role in telling a story with visual impressions. It has to transfer the emotions of the characters and give the whole content an atmosphere.

There have been several struggles with the score for What a Witch. Different music styles were tried out but proved unsatisfactory.
After a long while however, it came to a positive result: Ralf Hildenbeutel composed cineastic sounding music with piano and string recordings to be used as score for What a Witch.

The compositions are mostly a collection of piano-improvisations. The string arrangements followed afterwards and with the sample library on the computer, Ralf Hildenbeutel produced layouts. Afterwards, the stringrecordings were made. Most of the piano recordings were made in Ralf’s own “Schallbau Studios” nearby Frankfurt, some of the strings were recorded in Spain and some of them in Frankfurt. Ralf could control the recordings live via the internet.

Ralf Hildenbeutel is musician, composer, producer and labelowner. Through his classical education in piano and composing since the age of nine, he has become very familiar with composers such as Debussy, Bach, Chopin and Satie.

What a Witch contains four themes in different variations. Here is an extract from one of the score themes: