{"id":468310,"date":"2022-11-16T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/?p=468310"},"modified":"2022-11-15T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T11:51:42","slug":"hans-zimmer-new-documentary-europe-tour-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomann.de\/blog\/en\/inspire\/hans-zimmer-new-documentary-europe-tour-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hans Zimmer: Hollywood Rebel” – New Documentary & Europe Tour 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

The now 40-year career of the exceptional German composer\u00a0Hans Zimmer was honoured with a new BBC documentary.\u00a0It is the story of the Oscar-winning composer, who set completely new standards in film music and thus became a Hollywood star.\u00a0In addition, the dates for the “Europe Tour 2023” and the release of a new live double album have also been announced.\u00a0The documentary aired on BBC Two on October 16, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Impressive look behind the scenes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Francis Hanly, director of the BBC documentary, raves beyond measure.\u00a0In fact, he describes the work as a \u201cdream job\u201d.\u00a0He says the sheer number of outstanding films that Hans Zimmer has scored over the past 40 years is incredible.\u00a0Full of admiration, he was able to film the master at the keyboard, giving exclusive demonstrations of the techniques and sounds he created, while also explaining the ideas behind his film scores. Hans Zimmer himself was looking forward to sharing deep insights into his life with the world and enabling people to find a deeper understanding of his compositions and especially his music.<\/p>\n

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New double album to be released in 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Zimmer has also announced the release of a new double album for March 2023. It will feature revised live versions of his most famous film themes such as “Dune”, “The Lion King” or “The Dark Knight”.\u00a0The epic pieces were recorded during his spring tour.\u00a0It was recorded with the workflow of a studio production within ten nights;\u00a0then Hans spent weeks mixing the album with his friend and producer Stephen Lipson.\u00a0In addition to his 20-piece Disruptive Collective Band, Zimmer has also worked with the Odessa Opera Orchestra and Choir.\u00a0The first single, a new version of the suite from “The Last Samurai” from 2003, was released on October 7th.<\/p>\n

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The dream factory’s busiest film composer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Zimmer has left so many film music footprints that they hardly fit into a simple reference list. The long and legendary strips that he has staged with his music productions are, for example, the “Batman Trilogy”, films such as “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Rain Man”, “Gladiator”, “Inception”, “Da Vinci Code” and numerous others.\u00a0The list of his awards from the Grammy to the Golden Globe Award and various other prizes is simply endless.\u00a0He was awarded an Oscar for his soundtrack for “The Lion King” and “Dune”.<\/p>\n

Between worlds: Electronic, orchestral and experimental<\/strong><\/h2>\n

His basic musical education was \u201cimpressively extensive\u201d.\u00a0Born in Frankfurt am Main, Hans Zimmer learned the piano and took lessons for exactly one week.\u00a0According to Hans himself, everything he learned about music was in England. This is also the reason why he “(…) prefers to talk about it in English.” Not least because of his extraordinary creativity, his technical understanding and scenic empathy for musical visualization, he left the beaten track early on. Ultimately, through the synergy of electronic, orchestral and experimental music, he created nothing less than a new style of Hollywood music.<\/p>\n

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Synthesizer in Hans Zimmers Studio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Excerpts from the musical wizard’s equipment<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hans Zimmer has studios in London and Los Angeles.\u00a0Some of the equipment is mirrored, such as the\u00a0Moog Modular<\/strong>\u00a0and the machine room that houses the\u00a0custom samplers<\/strong>, as well as the\u00a0Waldorf Iridium<\/a>,<\/strong> which Hans says everyone on the team is a big fan of. Then again, there are devices that don’t exist in LA, like the\u00a0Analog Solutions Colossus<\/strong>.\u00a0He also used a\u00a0Fairlight sampler<\/strong>\u00a0for a while, which didn’t have MIDI at the time.\u00a0That was around 40 years ago.\u00a0Such sounds are now available via the plugin bundle\u00a0Arturia Collection 9<\/strong><\/a>. In general, Hans likes software synthesizers with an independent interface, especially since he feels that it takes him the same amount of time to program replicas of originals as it does on hardware.<\/p>\n

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Waldorf Iridium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He thought he was crazy – but it worked<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hans’ favorite synthesizer is the software synth\u00a0U-He Zebr<\/strong>, which is available in a special version for him and is also known as “Dark Zebra”<\/strong>. Films like \u201cInception\u201d or \u201cBatman Begins\u201d \u2013 even the flapping of Batman’s wings comes from Zebra \u2013 would certainly sound completely different without this synth. Urs Heckmann has repeatedly implemented special samples and plugins in the software synthesizer for Hans Zimmermann.\u00a0This also applies to the clearly electro-heavy Dune score. And so Zimmer also believed that he would drive Urs Heckmann crazy if he told him: “We now need four resonators in Zebra because we have this idea of \u200b\u200brotating the sound of a Tibetan horn and putting the spectrum on Tina Guo’s cello.\u00a0Urs thought he was crazy, but it worked.<\/p>\n

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A man who\u00a0<\/strong>went his own way undeterred<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hans Zimmer, he reaped admiration for his genius everywhere, not only in the genre of film composition.\u00a0He himself says: “I hope that this documentary inspires people to pursue their passions”.<\/p>\n

Hans Zimmer: Interview<\/h2>\n

Our friends from\u00a0Amazona<\/a>\u00a0met Hans Zimmer at his London studio last year.\u00a0Here you can find the video interview (in German only, unfortunately).<\/p>\n

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