Herman Witkam - Favorite instruments / Where does the sound fit the best
In this short video, Herman Witkam shows us one of his favorite instruments for making cinematic music: the ronroco, a baritone version of the charango. It's an instrument from the Andes region of South America and it's usually tuned in a minor chord. It can be used for a variety of scenes and genres, like drama, but even for action sequences, if you use it in a rhythmic way. However, it can sometimes be a challenge to convince directors to use these types of instruments – even in the case of a chromatic instrument like this ronroco, that can easily be used to play European classical music as well.
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Director - João Rodrigues
Host - Alexa Rodrigues
Video & photography - Maja Silver
Editing - Nathalie de Jong
Audio mixing - Mass Audio
Producer - Rens Machielse
Producer - Sebastiaan Donders