JCKS (ARTIST)
Jack studied classical music (Wind Band Conducting) at the Conservatory in Maastricht. Since 2022 he focuses on Mixing & Recording, Sound Engineering and Productions. He refined his skills at the Wisseloord Academy in Hilversum. This Academy is connected to and located in the famous Wisseloord Studio. In the summer of 2023 he did a course ABLETON at the 343LAB institute in New York City, where he focused on working with sample packages and designing movie movietrailers.
RELEASE 1 : DANCE BRAHMS, DANCE (SONG) 24-03-2024
Johannes Brahms wrote a beautiful a-Capella choir work under the title In Stiller Nacht.
JCKS arranged this song and used high-quality sample voices. The arrangement is divided in 3 sections:
- Section A: Voices are used staccato, accompanied by strings with modest rhythmic support.
- Section B: Voices are now strong and marcato, with a kick drum to emphasise the rhythmic structure.
- Section C: Voices are now soft legato, and repeated in a echo, with a rhythmic dance structure.
The song is produced in the Home Studio from Jack Knapen Music Productions.
Produced and mixed by JCKS.
Mastered by Felix Tournier
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RELEASE 2: ACAPELLA BEATS (SONG) 12-05-2024
This is an arrangement of the release Dance Brahms, Dance.
Based on feedback from Spotify playlists and radiostations there was a request to provide this song in a more upbeat tempo and with less accent of the vocals and more substance from Beats and Bass.
- Section A: Voices are used staccato, accompanied by strings with modest rhythmic support.
- Section B: Voices are now strong and marcato, with a kick drum to emphasise the rhythmic structure.
- Section C: Voices are now soft legato, and repeated in a echo, with a rhythmic dance structure.
The song is produced in the Home Studio from Jack Knapen Music Productions.
Produced and mixed by JCKS.
Mastered by Emils Svilpe
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RELEASE 3: THE NEW TRANSEAMUS 14-11-2024
Transeamus usque Bethlehem (lat., Let us go to Bethlehem), also Transeamus, is a Christmas carol from Silesia by an unknown composer. It is a choral work, and the song has a pastoral composition.
The song is written for four-part choir, with the men (in the role of shepherds) singing the first stanza and the women (in the role of angels) joining in the second stanza. At the end, all four voices sing simultaneously. The song is accompanied by the organ. For a long time, the song was mistakenly attributed to the German bandmaster Joseph Ignaz Schnabel (1767-1831). It was not until the 1960s that it became clear that only the instrumental arrangement was by Schnabel.
In the Netherlands, this song was heard annually on Christmas Eve on KRO radio, and it is sung, for example, after Christmas Eve mass in the Roman Catholic church, depending on the repertoire of the choir that is singing then.
The New Transeamus is an uptempo arrangement. The instrumental section is produced in my home studio. The voices are recorded at the Wisseloord Studio in Hilversum with a contribution of 104 male singers of the Mastreechter Staar.
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