# Johan Van Barel

Johan Arthur Van Barel (born 3 Oktober 1964, Bornem, Belgium) is a Belgian composer, producer and digital artist. He wrote and produced music for movies and games, drawing inspiration from romantic classics and film noir themes. Over the years, he has collaborated with emerging directors and game creators.

## Collaborations

| Date | Event |
| 01/01/2011 | Japanese television NTV broadcasts a short documentary about the gnu called The Ford by Andrzej Olesiak. Footage was taken in the Serengeti national park in Tanzania in 2010. Several orchestral pieces were licensed for the soundtrack. |
| 01/07/2010 | The Alberni Project, a tribute to the men who served on HMCS(Her Majesty's Canadian Ship) Alberni (1941-1944) during World War II, licenses the orchestral music Big Bang and Autumn Evenings. |
| 01/10/2009 | Coproduction Komodo by underwater photographer Filip Staes wins the first price for best musical adaptation at the famous World Festival of Underwater Images 2009 in Marseille in the category diaporama. The Komodo media production is a photo presentation from a diving journey he made in Komodo, Indonesia. Filip Staes is an international renowned underwater photographer who has won several prizes with his photo-projects fi. he won the first prize in 2007 at the famous Antibes World Festival of Underwater Images. |
| 06/11/2008 | Cooperation with New York based avantgarde video artist G.H. Hovagimyan resulted in a film project called Plazaville. This project contains a series of 31 shortfilms. Death March, Shadows, Struggle For Life, Target Zero and Agent FX were licensed for this project. Plazaville is a new media video artwork based on the classic 1965 movie Alphaville by Jean Luc Godard. It is a noir/sci-fi, "no budget" movie set in 21st Century New York City. Scenes from the original Alphaville are re-enacted, interpreted and improvised by artists, actors and videographers, directed by G.H. Hovagimyan, and shot in HD video. Video artist Christina McPhee films the ambient POPS (publicly-owned private plazas) of Wall Street, then remixes with retro punk sounds plus "Alpha60" computer voice-overs. Plazaville is a 2009 commission of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc., (aka Ether-Ore) for its Turbulence web site made possible with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support for Plazaville came from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Swing Space program, created with lead support from the September 11th Fund and space donated by The Sapir Organization. The Hudson River Park Trust, The Emily Harvey Foundation, School of Visual Arts and Truth & Pride Inc. also contributed to the making of Plazaville. Exhibitions: 2009 Art Cologne (DE), 2009 Pace Digital Gallery NYC (USA) |
| 10/09/2008 | Italian video producer Marcello Pizzi was granted a music license for his touristic video animation aimed at a junior audience for the Italian region called Molise (DVD). |
| 26/06/2008 | India film director Gajendra Shrotriya was granted a license agreement to use some tracks in his film projects. |
| 27/05/2008 | The piece Veerle's Ballad was licensed in a commercial for a video software product from Singular Software. |
| 22/03/2008 | Coproduction with German composer Jean Sevriens for end-mastering of his harp concerto called Tanghetto. |
| 31/01/2008 | Hungarian Animation artist Kisantal Tibor has released his 3D animation project Götepeték. The pieces Sky Dream and Forgive were licensed. The full animation can be viewed here. |
| 22/08/2007 | Coproduction with German composer Jean Sevriens for digital rendering and end-mastering of his piano composition called Spanjaard. |
| 10/08/2006 | Brass arrangement for a piece called Stem Voor Mij by Fritz Van den Heuvel aka Joris Vermassen, a Belgian visual artist and cartoonist. |
| 08/08/2006 | French-Canadian brickfilms animation artist Marc André (aka Bob Page) was granted a music license for Struggle For Life and Agent FX for use in his newest stop-motion animation named Worst Case Scenario III. |
| 01/07/2006 | The music composed and arranged for the film Twee Vrienden Maken Een Boek was completed. The film was ordered by the city of Temse and directed by Walter Dierick. VRT speaker Lies Martens created the lyrics. The film will be performed during the exhibition Honderd En Meer Verhalen Zien, showing a 10 year overview of the best works by Flemish Illustrator Marijke Meersman. The exhibition runs from juli 1 until september 24 2006 in AC De Zaat in Temse. |
| 28/06/2006 | The film Pirates Of The Drachtstervaart receives an honourable mention at Expose Your Talent, a film contest for young talented filmmakers. Junior director Jürgen Visser was granted a license for Target Zero and Struggle For Life in his film. |
| 26/04/2006 | Belgian singer-song writer, musician and multi-talented performer Dirk Blanchart asks for orchestral arrangements for 2 songs for his newest music album Pretty Dark Album appearing in September 2006. The pieces are Pre-Millennium Friend and Gates Of Heaven. |
| 22/03/2006 | Evo Devo - Tribal Brass Orchestral Remix for The Terms Remix Contest released. "I immediately recognized the enormous animal power that goes from this song by The Terms. That is why I wanted to enhance this feeling of primitive tribal energy. I started by building an African style primitive tribal percussion spine. Then I underlined the energetic accents with a huge orchestral big band arrangement. I mastered with some extra incremented excitement in the highs to make it sparkle." |
| 12/03/2006 | Coproduction with Veteran Club DJ, Producer, Singer/Songwriter, Musician David Floodstrand on an orchestral arrangement for his jazz song called “Universe”. Floodstrand comments on his collaboration: "Johan is a brilliant arranger, and composer. I had the opportunity to work with him on an orchestral arrangement of one of my compositions co-written with Ulli Fassbender entitled "Uni-verse" for my Criterion International label. I would recommend Johan for any project that needs scoring, and/or orchestral arranging. He prefers to work with "real" instrument sounds, if you cannot afford to hire a full orchestra, Johan is the next best thing." |
| 29/09/2005 | Film director Nitin Bal Chauhan was granted a license to use Autumn Evenings and Tired Of Sleeping in his newest documentary “Lost Or Found” that was nominated for best cinematography at The Art House in Singapore as part of the Asian Festival of First Films 2006 and officially selected for screening at the New York Film Festival 2007. |
| 13/09/2005 | Animation artist Lewis Chen has released his newest BrickFilms stop-motion animation Repent. The pieces Agent FX and Forgive were licensed. |
| 02/07/2005 | Junior film director and VFX artist Perry Kroll was granted a license to use several orchestral works in his early film projects. |
| 16/02/2005 | Finnish Art Student Jari Koljonen uses the piece Missing Him for his short-film Kun Vuosi Jäi Vajaaksi. |
| 21/04/2004 | Spanish film director Aitor Gaizka was granted a license agreement to use some orchestral works in his newest film project. |
| 21/08/2003 | The piece Tired Of Sleeping was used in the game Neverwinter Nights by Uraj Studios (aka Elegia Eternum) and Assassins of the Night by Arid Productions. |
| 04/07/2003 | Tired Of Sleeping was remastered by Ricky Castro, Kenji Uchiyama and John Mestesk. |

## Discography
### Singles

| Title | Date | ISRC | UPC |
| Pure Yasemin | 2024/07/12 | DKD3Z0015139 | 5715766002315 |
| Ripples Of Reflection | 2024/07/23 | DKD3Z0015760 | 5715766004449 |
| Eternal Entanglement | 2024/07/30 | DKD3Z0016251 | 5715766006405 |
| Capriccio Fantasia | 2024/08/03 | DKD3Z0016744 | 5715766008102 |
| Mystic Odyssey | 2024/08/09 | DKD3Z0016957 | 5715766009031 |
| Adagio Lamentoso | 2024/08/14 | DKD3Z0017219 | 5715766010297 |
| Whispers Of The Fallen | 2024/08/17 | DKD3Z0017422 | 5715766011263 |
| Ancient Discovery | 2024/09/02 | DKD3Z0018065 | 5715766014554 |
| Silent Revelation | 2024/09/13 | DKD3Z0018465 | 5715766016350 |
| Epic Chase | 2024/09/20 | DKD3Z0018675 | 5715766017586 |
| Capriccio Tempestoso | 2024/09/23 | DKD3Z0018817 | 5715766018316 |
| Onde Ondeggianti | 2024/10/07 | DKD3Z0019332 | 5715766020302 |
| Drifting Away | 2024/10/12 | DKD3Z0019651 | 5715766021163 |
| Celebrating Hope | 2024/10/16 | DKD3Z0019980 | 5715766021910 |
| Echoes Of Enchantment | 2024/10/28 | DKD3Z0020020 | 5715766022191 |
| Heroic Journey | 2024/11/04 | DKD3Z0020160 | 5715766022627 |
| Tango Solitaire | 2024/11/11 | DKD3Z0020191 | 5715766022771 |
| Soaring Fate | 2024/11/18 | DKD3Z0020285 | 5715766023037 |
| Audacious Modulations | 2024/11/25 | DKD3Z0020746 | 5715766024447 |
| Autumn Reverie | 2024/12/02 | DKD3Z0021092 | 5715766025451 |
| New Horizons | 2024/12/09 | DKD3Z0021681 | 5715766027608 |
| Fearless Spirit | 2024/12/16 | DKD3Z0021904 | 5715766028292 |
| Slavonic Soul | 2024/12/23 | DKD3Z0022088 | 5715766028742 |
| Tribal Resonance | 2024/12/30 | DKD3Z0022337 | 5715766029442 |
| Miniature Intermezzo | 2025/01/06 | DKD3Z0022952 | 5715766030950 |
Album: Impressions (Release Date:1/12/2020 - UPC: 0616293831285 - Label: Amuse)
| Track | Title |
| 1 | Scavenger Hunt |
| 2 | Strange Behaviour |
| 3 | Cadenza For Strings |
| 4 | Intricate Deception |
| 5 | Fighting The Disease |
| 6 | Don't Look Back |
| 7 | Villain Chase |
| 8 | Fletcher |
| 9 | Tired Of Sleeping |
| 10 | Komodo |
| 11 | Twee Vrienden Maken Een Boek |
| 12 | Shadows |
| 13 | Coming Home |
| 14 | Struggle For Life |
| 15 | Agent FX |
| 16 | Missing Him |
Album: Rachmaninov (Release Date:11/03/2021 - UPC: 7316211054439 - Label: Amuse)
| Track | Title |
| 1 | Prelude Op.3 No.2.wav |
| 2 | Prelude Op.23 No.2.wav |
| 3 | Prelude Op.23 No.3.wav |
| 4 | Prelude Op.23 No.4.wav |
| 5 | Prelude Op.23 No.5.wav |
| 6 | Prelude Op.23 No.6.wav |
| 7 | Prelude Op.23 No.7.wav |
| 8 | 8. Prelude Op.23 No.8.wav |
| 9 | Prelude Op.23 No.9.wav |
| 10 | Prelude Op.23 No.10.wav |
| 11 | Prelude Op.32 No.5.wav |
| 12 | Prelude Op.32 No.12.wav |
| 13 | Moments Musicaux Op.16 No.1.wav |
| 14 | Moments Musicaux Op.16 No.2.wav |
| 15 | Moments Musicaux Op.16 No.3.wav |
| 16 | Moments Musicaux Op.16 No.4.wav |
| 17 | Elegie Op.3 No.1.wav |
| 18 | Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.2.wav |
| 19 | Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.3.wav |
| 20 | Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.5.wav |
| 21 | Etude-Tableau Op.33 No.7.wav |
| 22 | Etude-Tableau Op.39 No.1.wav |
| 23 | Etude-Tableau Op.39 No.5.wav |
| 24 | Etude-Tableau Op.39 No.6.wav |