German composer based in Los Angeles Musical artist

Jo Blankenburg is a German composer based in Los Angeles. He writes music for film and motion picture advertising. Some of his most popular tracks have been used in the advertising campaigns of The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, X-Men: First Cl*, and How To Train Your Dragon among many others.

A solo album Vendetta for Position Music was released in 2011, the songs of which have been used for the advertising campaigns of many major movies and television shows. He also made another solo album for Position Music called Elysium, it was released in 2012.

On 30 March 2021 it was announced via Blankenburg's official website, that the track Fearmonger from his 2020 album Vanguard was chosen for the Netflix series Shadow & Bone soundtrack.

Contents

• 1 Albums
  • 1.1 Floatovations
  • 1.2 Vendetta
  • 1.3 Elysium
• 2 Trailer music
• 3 Credits
• 4 Discography
• 5 See also
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Albums

Floatovations

Jo Blankenburg's debut album, published by Zero Latency, was released on January 9, 2007. The album comprised five rather long meditative compositions - all with an ocean/sea theme.

Vendetta

An album composed by Jo Blankenburg for Position Music, released on March 21, 2011. Its songs were used for major motion advertising campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, X-Men: First Cl* and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn among many others.

Elysium

Following the success of Vendetta, another album, Elysium, was composed by Jo Blankenburg for Position Music, and was released on July 31, 2012.

Trailer music

• 2009 – The Wolfman
• 2009 – How To Train Your Dragon
• 2009 – FlashForward
• 2011 – "Dystopic" for featurette X-Men: First Cl*
• 2011 – "Satorius" for TV Spot Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• 2011 – "Conquest of Antaria" for Featurette Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• 2011 – "Juggernaut" and "Satorius" for America's Got Talent
• 2011 – "Vendetta" and "Satorius" for TV Spot The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
• 2011 – "Vendetta" for Home Video Trailer Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• 2011 – "Enamorus" for Far Cry 3
• 2012 – "Apophis" for TV Spot The Hunger Games
• 2012 – "Illumielle" for the official Christmas television advert for British department store Debenhams
• 2013 – "Imperatrix Mundi" for 300: Rise of an Empire
• 2014 – "Garador's Flight" for ABC News intro music at 05:30 for the switchover from BBC World Service
• 2018 - "Hiraeth" for Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• 2019 - "Play the Ponies" for Knives Out
• 2020 - "The Magellan Matrix" for Wonder Woman 1984

Credits

• 2005 – "Shortfilm: The World Beneath"
• 2005 – "Do*entary: Ticket"
• 2006 – "Do*entary: Poetry"
• 2006 – "Feature Film: Stages"
• 2007 – "Music Video: Vahveraasio"
• 2007 – "Shortfilm: Omega99"
• 2007 – "Music Video: Planet Earth Forever"
• 2008 – "Shortfilm: Squalid"
• 2008 – "Four orchestral pieces for Immediate Music
• 2009 – "Music for Congolese opera"
• 2009 – "Theme music for World of Wearable Art
• 2010 – "Demo music for Dr. Grordbort, Weta Workshop (Lord of the Rings)"
• 2011 – "Audio-visual project Oil Spill for Berlin International Film Festival showcase
• 2011 – "Music for do*entary The Human Experience"
• 2011 – "Shortfilm: Anamnesis"
• 2011 – "Music for Qtel commercial promoting the 2011 World of Wearable Art

Discography

• 2007 – Floatovations (Solo album)
• 2008 – The Feather Dance (Solo album)
• 2010 – Vendetta (for Position Music)
• 2011 – The Human Experience (for Gr*roots Films)
• 2012 – Elysium (for Position Music)
• 2015 – Kaleidoscope (for Position Music)
• 2016 – Valkyrie (for Position Music)
• 2017 – Cronos (for Position Music)
• 2018 – Clandestine
• 2018 – Cosmagora
• 2019 – Petrichor
• 2019 – Sacrosanct
• 2019 – Eleomera
• 2020 – Vanguard

See also

• Trailer music

References

External links

• Official website
• Bandcamp profile
• Jo Blankenburg at IMDb
• Floatovations
• The Feather Dance album
• Position Music
• Vendetta album