tv and film composer

joe wiedemann

Member of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)

Broadcast TV and Film Music       25-years behind the camera     

bio and credits:

Joe Wiedemann has scored music for film, news specials, documentaries, and commercial videos, since 1981. Also a broadcast videographer, his experience behind the camera has influenced his music. "Music can be a visual medium, simply by conjuring up images with different moods." He calls his unique style of blending electronic and orchestral instruments Orchestronics®.  "Breathing emotion into electronic instruments, like an oboist finesses his tone, opens an almost limitless array of new sounds and possibilities."

video links:

Cooperstown: Baseball's Main Street
2009: Year-in-Review (Excerpts)
2008: Year-in-Review (Excerpts)
CyberSafe
San Diego in the 50's
Living in Paradise, Living in Fear
Gemstones
Nature Center
Heroes
 Electronic Orchestra (Orchestronics 101)

    A lifelong musical background merged with a broadcast television career in 1978 for Wiedemann.  While studying music at the University of Evansville, he spent nearly all of his savings on a rare and expensive PolyMoog synthesizer.  He began experimenting with electronic music, and tape-to-tape overdubbing. That same year he began his video production and storytelling career as a news videographer with the ABC affiliate in Evansville, Indiana.  Music and video technology have come a long way since then.

   Since 1981, Joe has been a videographer and editor with KFMB-TV (CBS) in San Diego, crafting stories daily with video. On many occasions, these stories and documentaries called for custom music.  Budgeting time, and focusing one's energy on a tight deadline, is a necessity.   

   Wiedemann has scored music for film, news specials, documentaries, and commercial videos, listed below.  His unique style of blending electronic and orchestral instruments became known as Orchestronics®.

This Just Released CD: Electronic Orchestra features Symphony #1 in D-minor for an all-electronic orchestra.  Other works include: Duet for Any Two Keyboards, Four at a Time, Please! (a quartet for any four instruments within range), and two pieces for full acoustic orchestra, plus one electronic instrument/synthesizer: Dreamcycles, and Watching the Clock.
Orchestronics Bulls & Bears CD

The CD: Bulls & Bears explored the many different styles, or genres, that electronic instruments have become a part of: jazz, classical, dance, new age...  The Concerto No.1 for Piano and Electronic Orchestra uses a very classical form to show that electronic instruments are capable of forming their own ensemble.

The CD: Electro-Acoustic Orchestra shows that the symphony orchestra CAN take on new members.  Concerto No.1 for Synthesizer and Orchestra, is just the opposite in orchestration from the previous concerto.  This time the orchestra is acoustic, and the soloist is electronic.   The style is contemporary classical.

Electro-Acoustic Orchestra CD

American Idol Underground
Winner, Inaugural Classical Competition
November 20, 2005

Award- "Distant Melody" wins "Best Keyboards"

Here's a list of visual music credits:   (More links at bottom of page)

Orchestronics Composer Joe Wiedemann

     

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