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Boris Salchow

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Based in Los Angeles, Boris Salchow creates cinematic music scores and unique soundscapes for film, television, commercials, and video games. His artistic range and versatility encompasses live orchestra, hybrid acoustic/electronic music, and immersive musical sound design. Working with a variety of directors and producers, his credits include scoring international movies such as 80 Minutes and providing additional music for the #1 US box office hit Prom Night; symphonic scores for Sony's blockbuster video game titles Resistance 3 and Ratchet & Clank 3; and sonic branding for Adidas, Audi, and Lamborghini.

Growing up in Hamburg, Germany, Salchow's early musical education was founded in the traditions of classical composers, Shostakovich, Mahler and Dvorak. Subsequently he later spent his formative years writing and performing in bands combining his classical references with the contemporary influences of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Neurosis. Under the artist name "Pulsenoir" Salchow composed and recorded various live instrumental and experimental electronic music.

Salchow began his scoring career writing TV promos for leading German networks including Universal Studios who launched the Sci Fi Channel in Germany with his music. Further collaborations led him to scoring several successful domestic TV movies - Bodyguard, Flemming, Hamburg, Thrill - as well as the prime time detective television series Balko and action/crime series Wolff's Turf.

Since relocating to Los Angeles in 2005, Salchow has composed for feature films including the internationally-released action thriller 80 Minutes starring Gabriel Mann (The Bourne Identity), additional music for Elsewhere featuring Anna Kendrick (Up In The Air), and additional music for the Sony/Screen Gems' teenage horror mystery Prom Night featuring Idris Elba (The Wire). He has also scored numerous short films, promos and trailers for some of the most prestigious brands in the world including Adidas, Audi, and Lamborghini. Among his assignments Salchow was commissioned to create the music for Audi at the top motor industry expos in Geneva, Tokyo and the US; a fully interactive music environment for the Adidas flagship store in Paris; and the world premiere trailer for the Aventador from Lamborghini.

Salchow's music continues to be heard at the forefront of art, entertainment and technology with the live orchestral scores for Insomniac/Sony's science-fiction horror epic Resistance 2, the sequel to the best-selling PlayStation 3 launch title; the highly popular action/adventure/fantasy epic Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time; as well as co-producing and writing additional music for Ubisoft's acclaimed Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2. Most recently Salchow composed the emotional, narrative-driven score for Insomniac/Sony's highly anticipated release Resistance 3. The score was recorded with A-list session musicians at Abbey Road Studios in London.
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Boris Salchow
Boris Salchow
Boris Salchow
Panel 'Maestros of Video Games', PAX, Seattle
Advertisement for Resistance 2 (SONY)
Boris Salchow at Abbey Road Studio, Recording his score for Resistance 3 (SONY)
Premiere Germany From Above
Boris Salchow at Henson Studios, Los Angeles
Boris Salchow at Pax in Seattle
Boris Salchow at Henson Studios, Los Angeles
Boris Salchow receiving award for best composition, 2015
Boris Salchow at Abbey Road Studio, Recording his score for Resistance 3 (SONY)

Known for

Rebuilding Paradise (2020)
Rebuilding Paradise
7.0
  • Music Department
  • 2020
Das Riesending (2021)
Das Riesending
7.3
  • Composer
  • 2021
Resistance 3 (2011)
Resistance 3
8.0
Video Game
  • Composer
  • 2011
Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson in His Dark Materials (2019)
His Dark Materials
7.8
TV Series
  • Music Department

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Composer

  • Das Riesending (2021)
    Das Riesending
  • Russland von oben (2019)
    Russland von oben
  • Russland von oben (2018)
    Russland von oben
  • Russia From Above (2018)
    Russia From Above
  • Wilsberg (1995)
    Wilsberg
  • Nicolas Cantu in The Impossible Joy (2017)
    The Impossible Joy
  • Ski Another Day (2016)
    Ski Another Day
    • (music)
  • The Quest (2016)
    The Quest
    • (music)
  • Dead Rising 4 (2016)
    Dead Rising 4
  • Aleksandar Jovanovic, Leonard Lansink, Sönke Möhring, Senna Gammour, and Tim Kalkhof in Nur nicht aufregen! (2016)
    Nur nicht aufregen!
  • The Doppio Agent (2015)
    The Doppio Agent
    • (music)
  • The Making-Of 'The Agent on the Rocks' (2015)
    The Making-Of 'The Agent on the Rocks'
    • (music)
  • The Agent on the Rocks (2015)
    The Agent on the Rocks
    • (music)
  • The Secret Agent in the Service of Good Taste (2014)
    The Secret Agent in the Service of Good Taste
    • (music)
  • Sunset Overdrive (2014)
    Sunset Overdrive

Music Department

  • Olivia Munn, Eleanor Tomlinson, Joel Fry, Tim Key, Freida Pinto, Aisling Bea, Sam Claflin, Jack Farthing, and Allan Mustafa in Love Wedding Repeat (2020)
    Love Wedding Repeat
    • (additional music)
  • Rebuilding Paradise (2020)
    Rebuilding Paradise
  • The Small Hand (2019)
    The Small Hand
  • Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson in His Dark Materials (2019)
    His Dark Materials
  • Doomsday (2017)
    Doomsday
    • (additional music)
  • Clive Standen in Taken (2017)
    Taken
    • (additional music)
  • The Caterpillar's Kimono (2013)
    The Caterpillar's Kimono
    • (additional music)
  • Der Himmel hat vier Ecken (2011)
    Der Himmel hat vier Ecken
    • (theme music)
  • Elsewhere (2009)
    Elsewhere
    • (additional music)
  • Prom Night (2008)
    Prom Night
    • (additional music)
  • Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 (2008)
    Rainbow Six: Vegas 2
    • (additional music)
  • SexTV (1998)
    SexTV
    • (additional music)
  • Thrill - Spiel um dein Leben (2000)
    Thrill - Spiel um dein Leben

Videos6

Resistance 3 Soundtrack - Behind the Scenes
Demo Reel 4:00
Resistance 3 Soundtrack - Behind the Scenes
John Malkovich narrates Russia From Above
Demo Reel 1:51
John Malkovich narrates Russia From Above
Sunset Overdrive (VG)
Trailer 1:02
Sunset Overdrive (VG)
Sunset Overdrive (VG)
Trailer 5:05
Sunset Overdrive (VG)
Sunset Overdrive (VG)
Trailer 4:06
Sunset Overdrive (VG)
Overstrike (VG)
Trailer 2:42
Overstrike (VG)

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