Bulletins

19.06.08

'boards Magazine - Making Noise
With the prevailing trend towards global campaigns and the current vogue for visual-led work, creatives are turning to new and inventive sound design approaches in order to cut through the visual clutter. Here are three sonically smart spots that caught our ear.

Ed White talks to Drazen Bosnjak of Q Department.  Jonny Greenwood's Oscar-winning score for There Will Be Blood proved that provocative sound design can become an active presence. Q Department's Drazen Bosnjak found a similar experience, working on Little Minx's filmic version of the Exquisite Corpse parlor game.

We wanted to create a completely unique sound experience that has no reference but rather was focused on creating a space for this film to happen within."

Read the article
'boards - Making Noise

15.06.08

Q Department Sessions presents

The Director Series
A three hour musical journey curated by director Tom Kuntz

Thursday June 19TH
Q Department Studios
New York City

By Invitation Only

13.05.08

Q Department @ CINEVEGAS 2008
CineVegas announces programming selects for Tenth Annual Festival.

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse makes Cinevegas Shorts Program that honors work that embodies the creative nature of independent filmmaking.

View Little Minx Exquisite Corpse

CineVegas

07.05.08

WEBBY WINNER OF BEST SOUND DESIGN
Q Department wins 12TH Annual Webby Awards
BEST SOUND DESIGN in Film & Video for
Little Minx Equisite Corpse "she walked calmly disappearing into the darkness" directed by Malik Hassan Sayeed.

View Film

28.04.08

Clio Awards Short List 2008

Original Music

Comcast HD BOT

View # 007

28.04.08

Save the Bees!

An operatic visual audio feast from Haagen-Dazs, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, PSYOP and Q Department.

Top Spot Shoot Magazine. "The stirring operatic track that accompanies "Opera" is key to telling the tragic love story. Composer Drazen Bosnjak of the New York office of Q Department took on the task of re-arranging a duet from "Cavelleria Rusticana" and making it work within the context of a mere :30 format. He then recorded the piece with tenor Kip Wilborn and soprano Julianna DiGiacomo. Nicolas-Troyan and Ledru said they found the music to be a great inspiration as they worked to bring the story of the bee and the flower to life in dramatic, operatic fashion."

SHOTS Magazine
Motionographer
Boards
Shoot Top Spot
helpthehoneybees

08.04.08

Webby Awards Announcements 2008

Q Department receives 2 Best Sound Design Nominees & 1 Best Sound Design Honoree

MMVII & Little Minx Exquisite Corpse "she walked calmly disappearing into the darkness" have both been nominated for The 12th Annual Webby Awards in the Best Sound Design category. 

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse " and she stares longingly at what she has lost" has been selected as an Official Honoree for the Best Sound Design category in The 12th Annual Webby Awards.

Webby Awards
 

24.03.08

Q Department's Howard Street, New York - catalyst of culture.

Howard Street New York Times

01.03.08

Q Department on Bittorrent

Downloads on Bittorrent

11.02.08

Q Department Shortlisted for the 12TH Annual Webby Awards Best Sound Design category for 3 of our online film & videos.

#1  Little Minx Exquisite Corpse dir Malik Hassan Sayeed
#2  Little Minx Exquisite Corpse dir Phillip Van
#3  MMVII for Gaiaonline

Webby Awards

11.02.08

adidas Beijing Olympic Campaign dir PSYOP
Motionographer features the adidas Beijing Olympic campaign directed by our friends PSYOP. Music by Q Department.

Motionographer

11.02.08

Motionographer features Little Minx Exquisite Corpse: "she stares longingly at what she has lost" dir by Phillip Van. Sound Design by Q Department.

Motionographer

09.01.08

Contagious Magazine London
Most Contagious 2007
The beautiful anime world of GAIA was boosted by content created by New York agency Idealogue, who launched a short film trilogy in the world, entitledMMVII. The films aimed to drive member sign-up and raise the world's profile amongst its 8.5m residents and beyond. With storylines based around the GAIA 'earth goddess'myth and prophecies, elements from the films have been recreated in the virtual world, and residents are able to interact with the films online.  MMVII soundtrack by Q Department.

View Most Contagious

07.01.08

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse

"and she stares longingly at what she has lost" dir Phillip Van launches!

Sound Design by Drazen Bosnjak Q Department

View Film

Little Minx Exquisite Corpse

"she walked calmly disappearing into the darkness" dir Malik Hassan Sayeed launches!


Music + Sound Design by Drazen Bosnjak Q Department


View Film

13.10.07

MMVII
Part II
Flower of the Night

IDEALOGUE launches Part II with soundtrack by Q Department. Download for ipod, PSP or iphone.

View MMVII Flower of the Night

31.07.07

MMVII
Q Department announces the launch of the trailer to MMVII the new media entertainment property by IDEALOGUE for social network Gaia Online.

Directed & Animated by Tronic.
Soundtrack by Q Department.

View MMVII Trailer

26.06.07

Stash 33

Stash 33 features Psyop's hip-rebel-comedy for Fanta with music + sound design by Q Department.

Stash 33

26.06.07

'boards Magazine June/July Issue
Music + Sound Design Feature: MIXANDMATCH
features Drazen Bosnjak of Q Department.

"the exchange of information does'nt have anything to do with technology and has everything to do with people".

www.boardsmag.com

26.06.07

Cannes Lions 2007
adicolor Podcast Series for adidas is awarded "Finalist" in the Titanium & Integrated Category.

08.06.07

AICP Awards 2007 Honorees: Q Department
adicolor Red wins AICP for Sound Design 

07.06.07

adicolor Podcast Series wins coveted D&AD Global Awards 2007 Yellow Pencil for Execellence in Viral Films
Q Department Music Partner.

D&AD Viewing

15.05.07

Q Department Clio Awards 2007

adicolor blue
Original Music
BRONZE

MHD Crow by PSYOP
Music Adaptation
BRONZE

Drazen Bosnjak of Q Department also had the honor of being on the 48TH International Clio Awards 2007 Technical Jury.

23.03.07

Miami Winter Music
323
Fader Magazine + Grandlife + Q Department Party
Rain Miami
NYC DJ's Rub N Tug, Prince Language, A Touch of Class, IN FLAGRANTI, Max Pask, Ben Brunnemer, Lindsay Caldwell.

24.12.06

Top Campaigns 2006 'boards Magazine
adicolor by Idealogue, Music Partner
Q Department.
Adicolor's series of podcast films were created by some of advertising's hottest directors. They insist the project was not a commercial campaign, but that doesn't really matter. The project, created by Idealogue, rolled out over seven weeks this spring, caused just the right buzz with just the right audience, found a welcoming home on YouTube and wildly surpassed download expectation, cementing Adidas as a cool, aspirational brand. Traditional advertising? No. A glimpse at the future? An Adicolored one indeed.

14.10.06

The Boards Summit Party
The Knitting Factory
October 25TH 2006 8-12
Music by Q Department
Presenting Roy Dank & Jacques Renault

27.09.06

adicolor Green & adicolor Pink Win @ NOSPOT Award Show
Q Department's adicolor Green directed by HAPPY wins best Editor at Creativity Magazine's NOSPOT during Advertising Week. Congrats to Maury Loeb @ PS260.

adicolor Pink directed by Charlie White with music by Greg Weeks wins Best Branded Content.

NOSPOT AWARDS

25.07.06

Q Department signs Greg Weeks
Q Department is pleased to announce an alliance with composer Greg Weeks. Q Department and Greg first connected on the adicolor Podcast campaign for adidas. Greg's song "Made" from his album Awake Like Sleep provided director Charlie White with an addictive creepy teenage anthem for adicolor pink, which received global acclaim.

Greg's impressive reportage includes: Espers, an acid-folk sextet on the front lines of the New Weird America/Freak-Folk "movement" recently featured with Feathers, Vetiver and Jolie Holland in the NY Times; Grass, an acid-rock groove band; Superstarshine, an analog synth pop duo and The Valerie Project, an orchestral/prog sextet whose first foray is providing a live soundtrack to a lost Czech masterpiece.

The multi-talented Weeks also acts as both a Producer & Sound Engineer in his 24 track analog studio "Hexham Head" in Philly; which has thus far seen the likes of Espers, Margaret Baird, Marissa Nadler, Fern Knight, Rusalnaia, and Orion Rigel Dommise.

MYSPACE/Greg Weeks

25.07.06

Reline 2 a collection of 18 progressive audiovisual works by international artists features Q Department this month on Regret
directed by TRONIC.

Reline2 Website

26.07.06

Boards Magazine The It List
CANNES 2006

Drazen Bosnjak
Q is for 'bleeding edge'
With superb music and/or sound design treatments for MHD's "Crow", Adidas's "Modular Man" and the Adicolor films ("White", "Green", "Red" and "Blue") all issued in the last three months, Q Department founder Drazen Bosnjak has dramatically asserted himself as the go-to guy for the progressive, art-minded creative. As equally versed and interested in the outer limits of digital sound manipulation as he is in classical music's archetypal patterns, Bosnjak's compositional range extends far and deep. As does his credibility; for every ESPN or Nike on Q Department's reel, there's a small budget art film, film or personal project to match, proof that Bosnjak's heart is foremost in the work. MP

View "It List"

08.06.06

Q Department wins a coveted AICP Award - part of the 3 Honorees named in the category for excellence in Sound Design for GE: "Ecomagination" directed by TRONIC.

The AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial, commemorated its fifteenth year, with a screening
at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City, home of the world's leading collection of modern and contemporary art.

AICP Awards

18.05.06

Q Department is proud to announce the following
Clio Awards for Sound Design

Silver Clio: MTV "Beat Box Family"
Bronze Clio: EA Madden "You"
Bronze Clio GE "Ecoimagination"

Clio Awards

12.05.06

adicolor Podcast Soiree
The Hollywood Roosevelt Penthouse
adidas, Idealogue, Q Department, TRONIC, HAPPY, Charlie White, PSYOP, Roman Coppola & Andy Bruntel, Neill Blomkamp and Saiman Chow celebrate the launch of the adicolor Podcast series.

View adicolor Podcast here:

adicolor white
adicolor green
adicolor pink
adicolor blue
adicolor red
adicolor yellow
adicolor black

03.04.06

adicolor Podcasts
Q Department partners with IDEALOGUE and adidas to create an unprecedented film series for handheld devices like ipod and PSP. Enter the networked, persistent and pervasive audience.

Roman Coppola & Andy Bruntel, Neill Blomkamp, PSYOP, TRONIC, Saiman Chow, Charlie White, and HAPPY were each assigned one of seven colors – Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, Pink, Black or White and a blank canvass to create. 



www.r255g255b255.net

22.03.06

Q Department joined a group of prestigious partners for this years M3 Summit in Miami.  M3 is the only gathering in the United States to merge music, technology, art, fashion, and multimedia as an integrated lifestyle. Part festival, part trade show, and part industry confab, M3 brings together business leaders with forward-thinking consumers to celebrate the future of entertainment.   

www.m3summit.com

22.02.06

zingmagazine is a cutorial crossing dedicated to the interdependent dynamics and disciplines in culture. zingmagazine approached Drazen Bosnjak/Q Department
to guest edit and curate a section dedicated to music in
Issue 18. A limited edition CD by Q Department & associated record label Balkan Radar accompanied the issue.



View zingmagazine Issue 18

11.23.05

RES Magazine Vol.8 No.6  Sounds Like Issue
New feature on Q Department by Jesse Ashlock.

"007's gadget man came up with ever more dazzling and ingenious inventions as the Bond franchise progressed through the years. Expect Q Department to make the same contributions to the art of recording audio."



View full article

11.18.05

RES Magazine Launch + Q Department + Animal Collective

RES Magazine invites you to celebrate the release of its November/December Sound Issue that features Animal Collective and Q Department amongst others.
Sunday, November 20th, 2005, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
The Delancey, 168 Delancey Street @ Clinton
Audio Aesthetics by Q Department

11.10.05

Boards Magazine: November 2005 - The commercial music industry has undergone many shifts Drazen Bosnjak of Q Department joins Boards Magazine's music roundtable about Scoring noteworthy spots in a disposable download world... more



View full article

09.14.05

RESFEST New York City September 15 - September 18, 2005. The ninth annual RESFEST kicks off on Thursday September 18th with over a hundred of the year's most inventive and inspiring short films, music videos and animation. This year Q Department was invited again to do a VIP Studio Tour of our studios along with Loyalkaspar, Psyop, Mass Market & Honest.

View Feature in MAC Directory Japan

09.08.05

L'ENFER debuts at Toronto International Film Festival Friday 8-17 September 2005. Three sisters who share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite for the chance to come to terms with their past. L'Enfer(2005) Directed by Danis Tanovic (Oscar Winning Director of No Man's Land) debuts its worldwide premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Writing credits by Krzysztof Kieslowski & Krzysztof Piesiewicz. Music Producer & Original Soundtrack by Q Department.

08.15.05

L'ENFER new feature film by Oscar winning Director Danis Tanovic (No Man's Land) starring Emmanelle Beart and Carol Bouquet with soundtrack produced by Q Department

08.13.05

Q Department signs composer Simon Johns, bass player for Stereolab. Simon's extraordinary career started with a one-off single with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm o'Ciosoig under the name Clearspot. The Clearspot single led him to Stereolab who approached Simon for session work on the album "Cobra & Phases Group Play Voltages in the Milky Night" and subsequently hired him full time in 1999. He has been with the band ever since.

05.02.05

Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen: 5 May – 10 May 2005
The world's longest standing international short film competition, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, received 4,000 entries from more than 87 countries. "Regret" directed by Tronic Studio, with music and sound design by Q Department, was proudly accepted into this prestigious festival. www.kurzfilmtage.de

04.22.05

Q Department Europe – Q Department announces the opening of Q Department Amsterdam.

03.14.05

SONY & Y&R's Fourth Annual "Dreams" Program invites directors to create short films using Sony's 24p HD cameras. One of the featured shorts was "Little Pony", directed by Stylewar/SMUGGLER (Filip Engstrom) for which Q Department created the original music, music licensing and sound design.

02.28.05

M3 & Revolver Events New York/Miami Beach.
-M3, Miami Music & Multimedia.
Q Department proudly joins Oglivy & Mather, Motorola, Wired and others to sponsor/co-host this year's M3: Miami Music & Multimedia (March 23-March 26, 2005).
Part music festival part industry confab, M3 is the newest addition to a week of long-standing annual events in Miami Beach traditionally dedicated to dance and electronic music. Highlights include: Derrick Carter, RJD2, Louie Vega, John Legend, Ian Pooley, Los Amigos Invisibles, Layo & Bushwacka, Cirque du Soleil and more.
www.m3summit.com