The 23rd edition of SoundTrack_Cologne dedicates a full festival day to sound: On Friday, July 17th, high-profile case studies and workshops on sound design and music bring together composers and creative teams behind acclaimed films and TV series.
Tickets for some of these panels can be purchased individually.
Participatory Documentary HALIMA - HOW TO STAY STRONG
Sound designer Jenny Winter and director Linda Verweyen, both specialists in socially critical audiovisual projects, will discuss the creation of sound for sensitive stories, using their work on the participatory documentary HALIMA: HOW TO STAY STRONG as an example.
This panel is presented by BVFT.
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This case study offers an in-depth look at the collaboration between supervising sound designer Billie Mind and editor Evelyn Rack on SOUND OF FALLING (IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN), winner of the Jury Prize at the 78th Cannes Film Festival in 2025. Mind and Rack received the ICS Award for Best Editing, along with nominations for the German Film Award, Mind for Best Sound and Rack for Best Editing.
The panel will be hosted by Ulla Kösterke and presented by FILMTONFRAUEN.
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Grammy Award-winning composer, sound engineer and producer Simon Goff will explore how to create your own sound world. His work on films such as WAVES and series such as THE GOLD has earned critical acclaim for its immersive, textural soundscapes and compositional depth. Goff has also collaborated with some of the world's most celebrated contemporary composers and musicians, including Hildur Guðnadóttir on JOKER and CHERNOBYL.
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Cologne-based composer, sound designer and DJ Robert Feuchtl, a.k.a. Bob Humid, will offer an in-depth look at object-based sound design and mixing using the industry-leading DAW SEQUOIA by BORIX FX. Working through the pilot episode of the zombie series BLUTDRUCK, a genre where sound design is particularly demanding, Bob Humid demonstrates object-editing techniques for placing individual sounds into realistic spaces and adding subsonic room tones.
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