Chronicles
The Idee und Klang Studio has been existing for 25 years now. It started in a small flat and has become an established place of sound in Switzerland with international radiance!
1996
Human Bomb —the first time
Human Bomb was the first record that Daniel, at that time barely 17 years old, had mixed with his former business partner Willy Honegger. The songs were all written by the famous English musician and composer Neil Filby (Karls Kühne Gassenschau).
Studies
1996 - 2001 Daniel studied Audio Design at the University of Music, Basel. He was often seen in the electronic studio of the academy and mixed many productions on the time-honoured Studer 990 console.
2001
Skamander — to the diploma
For his master's degree, Daniel realized a monumental musical project together with the composer Beat Gysin. The Show was performed in a swimming pool. More than 64 loudspeakers were installed, of course also some under water.
The first Studio
From 1998 Daniel continuously developed the largest room of his former apartment into the Idee&Klang Studio Riehen. Already back then big productions, e.g. Trauer (Herbert Grönemeyer), the film music for Gripsholm or David Klein's "My Marylin" were mixed at that place.
My Marilyn — a passionate project with the David Klein Quintet
Our first big jazz production under the direction of producer and saxophonist David Klein. Famous musicians like Mulgrew Miller (Dianne Reeves and Cassandra Wilson), Ira Coleman (Herbie Hancock), Marcello Pellitteri played. Singing: Miriam Klein (Dexter Gordon). Only the best was good enough for the mix, so Klein booked a world-class international studio with one of the world's most renowned sound engineers. Back in Basel, Klein wondered if it couldn't be mixed even better. He heard indirectly from Daniel Dettwiler, a young sound engineer at the time, who had just finished his studies and set up a small recording studio in Riehen. Daniel mixed the project from scratch again, everything 'in the box' (except for the reverberation) and this at a time when practically every sound engineer considered it impossible to create a great mix without using a mixing console. The production is still a reference today. more...
Gripsholm — hello Soundtrack
The soundtrack to Oscar winner Xavier Koller's "Gripsholm" was written by the composers David Klein and Olivier Truan and initially mixed by a well-known sound engineer. During the final mix in Munich the composers realized that the sound was not big enough, not beautiful enough to meet their needs. Perfectionists that they were, they had the music mixed again - and since David had good experiences with Daniel during the mixing for "My Marilyn", the Job was given to Daniel to mix his first film music, and he nailed it.. more...
2002
Herbert Grönemeyer and the Abbey Road Studio 1!
The World Quintet (today Kolsimcha) feat. Herbert Grönemeyer was our first large-scale production. The band recordings took place at an old radio studio in Zurich, Switzerland and at GUM Studio, Belgium. The London Mozart Players were recorded at Abbey Road Studio 1, London and Herbert Grönemeyer was tracked at the Hardstudios in Winterthur. Mixing was still done at the old Idee und Klang Studio in Riehen (for several weeks:-). Herbert sang the song, composed by David Klein, with fervor and we are still proud of this work today more...
BMW Museum — a sound space spectacle
During this period of time Daniel and Ramon De Marco founded Idee und Klang Audiodesign gmbh. Our first big assignment was to create soundinstallations and room-sound compositions for all areas of the new BMW Museum. Ramon and Daniel spent many months composing for this.
Afterwards the Idee und Klang Studio realized the premix on a 16 channel AROS 2 system. The final mix took place directly in the rooms of the museum, there on a 64 channel Aros 3 on over 500 loudspeakers. We were on site for over two months.
2005
Die weisse Massai — a stunning soundtrack
We moved into our current rooms in the Gundeldinger Feld together with the famous film music composer Niki Reiser. From then on, Niki realised literally all of his music with Daniel. The first project was a really big one: "The White Massai". We recorded the orchestra at Teldex Studio, Berlin. Various individual musicians were then recorded in the new rooms of our studio. But the most fun was the work in Kenya. We were looking for local musicians in the bush, which we recorded with mobile studio equipment and melt together with the orchestra back at the studio. more...
Selma — Recording Xavier Naidoo, Sarah Connor u.a.
For the Selma Project, a variety of German pop stars sang songs composed by David Klein, Olivier Truan and Michael Heizler to texts by the lyricist Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger, who died in the German concentrations camps Michailowska at the age of 18. Most of the singers were recorded at Teldex Studio's Berlin. David Klein was the producer. more...
SRF 3 — a piece of Suisse Radio
Daniel composed, together with Ramon De Marco, about 100 jingles for Swiss national radiostation DRS3 (today SRF 3), some of which are still on air today. more...
2006
Pierre Favre Ensemble —welcome ECM Label
Another highlight this year was the recording of the Pierre Favre Ensemble, which was released by the renowned label ECM. Producer was the legendary Manfred Eicher. mehr...
Never Let Me Go — japanese Silver Award
Daniel Dettwiler was awarded the Silver Award by the "Jazz Critique Magazin" for the "especially good sound" of the CD "Never Let Me Go" (Robert Lakatos Trio). more...
2007
Song of Tschaikowsky — a thing of beauty
Even today we are still often asked about the sound quality of this album of the Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio. Daniel let the musicians all play in one room without headphones — old-school. more...
Zehnder - Kraah
Our first collaboration with the voice virtuoso Christian Zehnder was a veritable large-scale production - we recorded at the Volkshaus Studio, Basel, for over two weeks, and we were also given plenty of time for the mixing process. It is still one of our best productions to date. more...
2008
Thomas D our guest!
The main track of the album "Kennzeichen D" was composed and produced by David Klein. Our employee at that time Hannes Kumke did the vocal recordings in the Idee und Klang Studio. Thomas was deeply impressed by the incredible collection of historical microphones from which he could choose the right one for his voice. The old Telefunken Ela/M 301 from 1928 was used, the oldest microphone from the collection. more...
Working for Oscar-winning director Caroline Link
For the film by Oscar-winning director Caroline Link we recorded and mixed the film music written by Niki Reiser. more…
2009
Rusconi
During the last years we have worked several times with the well-known group "Rusconi". The trio has changed a lot over the years and so we have always created new sound concepts. more...
The Five Elements — dancing chimes
The "Xala" is a type of floor xylophone on which the musician and dancer Ania Losinger performs and produces sounds. Recording this worldwide unique instrument was a major challenge for sound engineer Daniel Dettwiler. He accomplished the recording at the Volkshaus Studio, Basel. more...
2010
World Exhibition: Idee und Klang in Shanghai!
For the World Exhibition in Shanghai Daniel and Ramon have composed a spectacular music to complement a 720° movie. This 20.2 soundtrack was pre-mixed at our studio, while the final mix took place in the pavilion in Shanghai. An absolute highlight!
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The Colours of Cremona Violins
A long collaboration begins with the producer Walter Fischli. The first project was a recording with four violins from the golden era. How do you record a Stradivari, a Berngonzi, a Guarneri (figlio d'Andrea) and a Guarneri del Gesù in such a way that you can hear the differences in sound at their best? A task perfectly suited for Daniel. more...
Daniel as performer
For Marienglas - a room-acoustic chamber opera by Beat Gysin, Daniel Dettwiler realized the audio design and performed the sound spaces live. The people enjoyed the concert lying down and wore sophisticated headphones by „Stax". An additional acousmatic sound system provided further sound environments. The project was performed in Basel, Bern and Valais (2010), in Zurich (winter 2011) and later in Latvia. Marienglas Beat Gysin live press
180° — a touch of life
The motion picture "180°-when your world turns upside down" was a huge success in Switzerland. It was also our first collaboration with the Baldenweg siblings (Great Garbo). Their brilliant music was recorded by the aclaimed Tonhalle Orchestra, condeced by the renowned David Zinman. The composers received the Suisa Prize for this score. more...
2011
Das Blaue vom Himmel — recording session in Prezlau
"Das Blaue vom Himmel" is a German feature film from 2011, directed by Hans Steinbichler and starring Hannelore Elsner and Juliane Köhler as well as Karoline Herfurth and David Kross. We recorded Niki Reiser's bombastic score in Prezlau in an old radio studio in cooperation with Teldex Studios. more...
2012
SRF2 — composing for Swiss Radio again
For the national radio SRF2, Daniel Dettwiler, together with Ramon De Marco, composed the entire acoustic layout including the news signet. The origin of many jingles were piano improvisations by Daniel, who spent two days and nights more or less locked up in the Volkshaus Studio and gave free rein to his fervor on the big Steinway. more...
Piano Di Primo — Nik Bärtsch
Daniel and his team have recorded all the concerts in the "Piano di Primo" sound barn. more…
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Eine Frau — a jazzproject of uncomparable beauty
Jasmin Tabatabai receives the Echo Jazz 2012 for the album "Eine Frau", which was produced by David Klein and recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Dettwiler. One of our best productions to date - which we worked on over several months. more…
2013
Daniel at Swiss National TV
The Swiss TV Show «Kassensturz» was in our studio for the test of battery loudspeakers and made a quite funny contribution. Kassensturz
Kolsimcha — London Symphony Orchestra at Abbey Road Studio 1
A big symphony orchestra melts beautifully with a great klezmer band - we were honoured to record an absolute project of dreams for Swiss Kletzmer Band „Kolsimcha" at Abbey Road Studio 1 :-) Abbey Road Studio 1 more…
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Rendez-Vous? — Yes!
In 2013 Idee und Klang Audiodesign Gmbh won the competition for the redesign of the sound logo for the " Rendez-vous" news magazine. The winning composition proposal for the news opener was written by Daniel Dettwiler. The programme is broadcasted on many radio stations. In order to set new standards in terms of quality for a swiss radio jingle, a complete orchestra was engaged, which had been recorded at the Volkshaus Studio Basel with Daniel’s historical microphones. Due to this enormous effort for "about 10 seconds of music", as the Basel Landschaftliche Zeitung titled it, Swiss Television realised an interesting contribution to the creation process. See the Swiss TV show about the composition more…
2015
Heidi — the CADAC goes Filmmusic!
The first large-scale soundtrack mix on the Cadac - and it sounded great! more…
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Echotopos
A Dummy Head microphone, Swiss mountains and echoes, that' s "Echotopos" by Christian Zehnder. Our task was to find out how we would be able to capture the echoes in the swiss alps including the sound recordings in a completely holistic and realistic way. The very exciting project was recently portrayed by swiss news broadcaster «10vor10», the «NZZ» and by the «Schweizer Familie». more…
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Im Labyrinth des Schweigens — close to an Oscar!
An impressing score by Niki Reiser - the movie received great attention and was in the race for an Oscar... more...
Belles Lettres
Together with Benjamin Gut, Daniel also composed the music for this emotional audio book. more…
2016
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank
An another big film music commission right after we finished the work on Heidi. Teldex Studio Berlin GmbH more...
Roli Frei and the Soulful Desert
The first big Pop production at the CADAC, mixed by Beni Gut, who still works at an engineer up today at our Studio. more...
Lisette Spinnler — Cadac magic
For the Lisette Spinnler Group we were allowed to realize a particular special production, and we think it has become one of our sound references. more…
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Little Infinity — german film score award!
German Film Music Award!
Once again we mixed a film music that won first place (category short film) at the German Film Music Award! Congratulations to the composer Jan Willelm de With! more...
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Let's keep mixing great projects and be sure to bring this chronicle up to date soon. Who knows, maybe there will be a project with you?
