A La Shook

Master of Music Jesse Koolhaas (1979) brings an additive value to any project through his conceptual way of working and fresh insights. Particularly concerning the border area between Sound Design and Music, where he is able to merge the two crafts into one and present an original result.

Applying his gained knowledge to commercial use, Jesse Koolhaas has composed music for a large variety of projects, ranging from experimental dance productions to campaigns for Sony and Philips and several short films. He is currently active in the board of the MiMM (Music Institute MultiMedia), part of the Unheard Film Festival organization in Amsterdam and doing freelance assignments for Massive Music Studios.

In 2005 he graduated at the Sonology department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Here he focused on different aspects of abstract electronic composition and acquired his Bachelor of Music by writing a thesis on relevant techniques for combining sound and image. In his final project he collaborated with a student of the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Orpheu de Jong, in an attempt to create a composition of sound and image, where both medias are equally relevant and additive. This project was awarded the Rietveld Award in 2005. In 2007 Jesse Koolhaas graduated a Master of Music at the KMT department of the HKU in Hilversum, where he mainly focused on music and sound design for image.

In 2006 Jesse won The European Film Music Award in the category "Special Recognition" at The Soundtrack Festival Cologne together with sound designer Ronnie van der Veer.

A La Shook and FabFilter

FabFilter happens to be my neighbour in the old Volkskrant building on the Wibautstraat in Amsterdam where I have my studio. Since I've known about FabFilter I've mainly stopped using the other filter plug-ins I used before, as well as the delays because FabFilter Timeless has to be the best sounding delay plug-in I have ever heard!

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