Broadcast TV and Film Music Composer, Joe Wiedemann's CD "Music for Pictures"

television and film composer

joe wiedemann

"an eye for music"

Television and film composer Joe Wiedemann has more than 25-years broadcast experience behind the keyboard AND the camera. An award-winning film and broadcast composer, he scores music for television, video and motion pictures. He adds new sounds, in a classical style, with modern musical technology.

Experience behind the camera has influenced his music, and vice versa. With Axiem and Emmy awards for producing and editing video essays, he has established a personal style.

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A lifelong musical background merged with a broadcast television career in 1978 for Wiedemann. While studying music at the University of Evansville, he spent nearly all of his savings on a rare and expensive PolyMoog synthesizer. He was after the widest variety of electronic sounds that technology had to offer at the time, all in one instrument. He began experimenting with electronic music, and tape-to-tape overdubbing. That same year he began his video production career as a news videographer with the ABC affiliate in Evansville. Music and video technology have come a long way since then.

Since 1981, Joe has been a videographer and editor with KFMB-TV (CBS) in San Diego, telling stories daily with video. On many occasions, these stories and documentaries called for custom music. Budgeting time, and focusing one's energy on a tight deadline, is a necessity.

Wiedemann has scored music for film, news specials, documentaries, and commercial videos. His unique style of blending electronic and orchestral instruments became known as Orchestronics(R).

The CD: Bulls & Bears explored the many different styles, or genres, that electronic instruments have become a part of: jazz, classical, dance, new age... The Concerto No.1 for Piano and Electronic Orchestra uses a very classical form to show that electronic instruments are capable of forming their own ensemble.

The CD: Electro-Acoustic Orchestra shows that the symphony orchestra CAN take on new members. Concerto No.1 for Synthesizer and Orchestra, is just the opposite in orchestration from the previous concerto. This time the orchestra is acoustic, and the soloist is electronic. The style is contemporary classical.

American Idol Underground
Winner, Inaugural Classical Competition
November 20, 2005

Award- "Distant Melody" wins "Best Keyboards"

Here's a list of visual music credits: (More links at bottom of page)

Cybersafe (Produced by San Diego District Atty., 2007)
Chula Vista Nature Center (City of Chula Vista, 2005)
The Year In News: 2003 KFMB-TV (CBS) Emmy Award Nominee
Year In Review: 2004 KFMB-TV (CBS)
Year In Review: 2005 KFMB-TV (CBS)
Year In Review: 2006 KFMB-TV (CBS)
The Year That Was 2007 KFMB-TV (CBS)
Song of Songs (Film) 2002 AXIEM Award Winner
La Torta (TV Commercial Spot) 2002
San Diego's Veterans KPBS-TV (PBS) 2001
Hillcrest: Searching For San Diego KPBS-TV (PBS) 2001
City Heights: Search For San Diego KPBS-TV (PBS) 2001 AXIEM Award Winner
Top Stories of 1999: KFMB-TV (CBS) 2000 AXIEM Award Winner
Area 51: KFMB-TV (CBS) 2000
Keat the Killer Whale: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1999 (More links at bottom of page)
Remembering the 50's" KPBS-TV (PBS) 1997
Heroes of 1997: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1997 EMMY Award Nominee
Cooperstown: Baseball's Main Street, National Syndication 1995-1997
Living In Paradise; Living In Fear: KPBS-TV (PBS) 1994
ReMax Business Real Estate Videos (Various) 1992-1995
Mama's Kitchen: Time Warner Cable TV 1993 (Keep scrolling.)
San Diego: 1992: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1992
Cover Story KFMB-TV (CBS) 1992
Transportation Management: Regional Trans. Council 1991
Behind the Scenes: Cinderella: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1990 EMMY Award Nominee
China Revolution: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1989
Downtown Business Woman: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1989 EMMY Award Nominee
Real Winter: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1989
Computer-Cable Connection: KFMB-TV (CBS) 1983