The opera Bach never wrote
All of Bach releases The Apocalypse, an opera pieced together from Bach’s music. Bock designed the stage sound, shared recording duties and edited and mixed the music.
All of Bach · Nederlandse Bachvereniging ↗Archive
Press, programmes, interviews and recordings from the careers of Syntroφ’s collaborators.
2026
Hoffmann returns to the Teatro Colón
For the 9–16 October revival of Eugenio Zanetti’s staging, the theatre credits Bruno Arantes and Felipe Giuliano with visual design.
Teatro Colón ↗Three ways to hear Julius Eastman
Joy Boy, Buddha and Gay Guerrilla make up New European Ensemble’s album devoted to Julius Eastman. Challenge Classics credits Bock as producer on all three recordings.
Challenge Classics · Qobuz ↗Scoring the legacy of nuclear testing
Brewery Arts opened its Beyond Horizons season with Our Planet, The People, My Blood. With an original score by Schaller, the documentary follows Alan Owen as he seeks recognition for families affected by nuclear testing.
Brewery Arts · True Perspective Films ↗Handel under the big top
The Opera Circus brought Handel arias and acrobats to Groningen. Bock designed the sound for this OPERA2DAY and Netherlands Bach Society production.
OPERA2DAY · SPOT Groningen ↗2025
Il Doge, between testimony and score
Gianna Isabella Magliocco recalls filming the life of Giampaolo Manca, once a member of the Venetian mafia. She names composer Thilo Schaller among the collaborators who shaped the documentary.
Rolling Stone Italia ↗Ecos del 27 at BRAVA Arts!
Working with Ecos27, a collective distinct from Syntroφ, Javier helped curate an exhibition on Spain’s Generation of ’27. BRAVA Arts! hosted its presentation in December. The exhibition was supported by the Generalitat de Catalunya through the Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural (OSIC).
Escena Inmersiva · Ecos27 ↗Audiovisual work for Pagliacci
The programme for Leoncavallo’s opera credits his audiovisual work alongside Bruno Arantes, Djalal Dufetelle and Felipe Giuliano. San Juan’s Teatro del Bicentenario produced Eugenio Zanetti’s staging.
Teatro del Bicentenario · programa, p. 14 ↗Zarzuela on a town hall façade
He led the art direction of Zarzuela Monumental Hispanidad in San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Pedro Giuliano designed the projections on the town hall and Francisco Matilla wrote the dramaturgy.
Crónica de Abantos ↗Bringing Joe Hisaishi’s music to the back row
What does an orchestra sound like in the Tokyo Dome? The magazine describes how Bock and engineer Tyler Soifer designed and aligned the system to bring Hisaishi’s music to the back of the stadium.
Entertainment Technology Asia ↗2024
susyQ on images and movement
Reviewing Quijotes en Nueva York, Yaiza López draws attention to the relationship between the dancers’ bodies, Giuliano’s visual world and the music of Iris Azquinezer.
susyQ · Yaiza López ↗Quijotes en Nueva York at the Institut français
The programme names Giuliano as visual artist within Madrid Produce’s audiovisual and immersive design. Jean-Philippe Dury directed and choreographed the work; Arne Bock designed the sound.
Institut français de Madrid ↗A score for the landscapes of Invernaderos
Tertulia presents the installation it co-produced with Madrid Produce. Schaller’s score meets the collective’s paintings, sculptures and moving images, with immersive audio by IMEXsound.
Tertulia · Gallo Rojo ↗A digital landscape at the Royal Artillery Factory
For Invernaderos he built digital environments for a Syntroφ installation combining painting, projections and virtual reality. OFFF Sevilla credits Felipe Giuliano with art direction and names Dufetelle and Pedro Giuliano as collaborators.
OFFF Sevilla · Artillería ON ↗El vals sin nombre at the Teatre Zorrilla
FILMETS screened his 2023 short in Badalona. The catalogue singles out its fantasy atmosphere and the closing waltz by Anaél and Sufián Cantilo.
FILMETS Badalona Film Festival ↗Elden Ring plays all around the audience
At the Paris premiere of Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure, the orchestra and choir played alongside game effects heard in different parts of the hall. Javier Gil Pérez describes the acoustic study Bock made to position those sounds.
SoundTrackFest ↗Producing El vals sin nombre
Bruno and David Torres produced Felipe Giuliano’s fantasy short, a collaboration between Madrid Produce and The Other Film Production.
Madrid Produce ↗2023
Three directors stage Litoral
He co-directed Wajdi Mouawad’s play with Joana Bressan and Fiona Orioli at Granada’s Teatro Alhambra. Eighteen performers explored the search for one’s origins after a father’s death.
Granada Hoy ↗Compositing El vals sin nombre
On Felipe Giuliano’s short he composited the footage shot on set with digital environments and 3D elements. Djalal Dufetelle handled modelling and camera reconstruction.
Escena Inmersiva ↗Reconstructing the camera in El vals sin nombre
His modelling work included recovering the camera’s movement and accounting for lens distortion. This made it possible to line up the digital elements with the perspective of each shot.
Escena Inmersiva ↗Señorías, by María Guerra
The Spanish film catalogue lists Bruno among the producers of this 19-minute documentary, selected by the Madrid Film Festival and Seminci.
ICAA · Ministerio de Cultura ↗2022
The strings of In Walked
Pablo Margaretic presents a ten-song album featuring the string quartet of Argentina’s Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero. Schaller, who also taught at the university, wrote the string arrangements.
Mundo UNTREF ↗2021
Gallo Rojo introduces Driftwood Humans
The Seville gallery announced an installation about migration and displacement, combining sculpture and digital images with recorded testimonies and presence sensors.
Gallo Rojo ↗A conversation at Gallo Rojo
Javier and Teresa Cabello recall opening the space in 2015 and how it grew into a meeting place for Seville’s artists, organisers and audiences.
lavozdelsur.es ↗2020
The unease of The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw
Reviewing Thomas Robert Lee’s rural horror film, John Corrado singles out the score by Bryan Buss and Thilo Schaller for deepening the story’s unsettling atmosphere.
The Joy of Movies ↗2019
Behind the second edition of OFFF Sevilla
Sala Cero introduced the festival as a joint project with Surnames and Tertulia. The edition took place at CaixaForum Sevilla from 28 to 30 November.
Sala Cero Teatro ↗2017
La La Land with 51 musicians at the screen
On the UK tour of La La Land, Bock mixed a 51-piece live orchestra with the film’s dialogue. Live Design reports on how the team found that balance in each hall.
Live Design ↗