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about JORIS HOLTACKERS

After years of intensive study and extensive practical experiences, I'm ready & steady to offer you my work as an audio (re)mixing, (re)mastering and restoration engineer.

Also, I'm very interested in composition and piano performance requests, especially for several kind of productions. For example, if you're in the market for a newly recorded piano solo recording of a certain Chopin Prélude or a piano work of Brahms for a movie or documentary, I can deliver a high quality performance and recording of it in very little time. No fake electronic piano sound, but the warm, lush sound of a perfectly voiced Hamburg Steinway, realistically recorded as if you're sitting in the front row (or in the back row if desired).

T.H.E. ("the hunting ear")

T.H.E. ("the hunting ear") online remastering & restoration service is born. Specialties: classical, jazz and world music, but I'm broadly experienced just as well in the pop and rock field.

joris's GOAL

• Joris likes to write & play music where different genres, cultures and arts are coming together, as if there never existed any boundaries
• being focussed only on the heart and soul of music, without being seduced to join the notes-per-second races too much
• meeting more and more like-minded musicians and artists over the world to work with

for my resume, please check the 'current & past projects' menu under 'Studio Sonopoly'

don't forget about the music:
click the headphones on
the top, and enjoy :)

Music & sound are my biggest 2 passions since early youth. Music became my profession after my piano & composition studies at the Conservatory of Utrecht (NL). However, sound, and the end-result of albums, still gain one of my ultimate interests.

Both as a musician and a producer / recording technician, I'm quite a perfectionist, don't allowing my ears to fool me and only the best is good enough. What I hear at live performances, the real-life acoustic sound, is my guiding. Various modern technologies enable me to get the exact sound I'm hunting for.

STUDIO SONOPOLY

LE COLIBRI

• Le Colibri
(E. Chausson)
sung by Simone Riksman @ Bachzaal Amsterdam, NL

RESPIGHI

• No non e morto il figlio tuo
(O. Respighi)
performed by Kalevala Zingt
recorded in a living room @ Utrecht, NL

JORIS (allround)

HUMORESQUE

• Humoresque
composed by Joris, performed by Joris (grand-piano & percussion) and Bart Soeters (bass)

LATIN JAM

• Latin Jam
(multi-instrumental jam by Joris)

JORIS (classical)

CHOPIN

• Prélude no.10 in c# minor, op.28/10 (F. Chopin)
performed by Joris
Instr.: Steinway D (Hamburg, 1920)
Temp.: Young 1799

BACH

• Gigue from English Suite no.3
(J.S. Bach)
performed by Joris
Instr.: Steinway D (Hamburg, 1920)
Temp.: Bach/Barnes

MORE music can be heard at INDABA:

• Paul Simon 'Love is Eternal Sacred Light' remix (3rd prize) - remixed, arranged and additional instruments performed by Joris

• Steve Reich '2x5' remix - remixed and additional instruments performed by Joris (Honorable Mention), choir by Joris & Mariëtte van Waard

and on iTUNES:

• The album 'Loving and Beloved' by Adept's Ode

"The recording is, in one word, sublime! When I put on the cd for the first time, for a moment I just didn't know what happened to my stereo set. Such a perfect balance between space, musicians, detail and the total picture. Everything is 'on the right place'. Engineer Joris Holtackers has captured the emotion with this recording so it's like being at the performance yourself."

(Translated review from Chiel-Jan van Hofwegen. The Dutch review can be read here.)