We Are IMEXsound
ABOUT US
IMEXsound was founded in 2020 with the goal to create artistically and technically compelling immersive experiences.
Over the past two decades, we – Thilo Schaller and Arne Bock – have worked with internationally renowned soloists, ensembles, and orchestras across various genres and contexts. Drawing from this experience, we are exploring immersive possibilities for our clients, finding and realizing new ways to reach our audiences
Thilo Schaller
Thilo Schaller is an award-winning German-Canadian composer, sound designer and music producer who is known for his diverse musical range. Most recently, Schaller composed the score for the Italian documentary A Portrait of Redemption in Five Acts, which chronicles the story of Giampaolo Manca, the former ‘Doge’ of the Venice Mafia – Mala del Brenta. The festival-bound film features a musical palette highlighted by a very personal approach to musical storytelling to portray the various stages of Giampaolo Manca’s life.
Previously, Schaller worked as a freelance composer, music producer, and recording engineer with Dutch national classical radio station Radio4, and throughout his career has worked with renowned orchestras including the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Academic State Symphony Orchestra. Schaller’s very first score for a Canadian feature film was nominated for an Alberta Film and Television Award, and his extensive range of experience in short films, feature films, and international documentaries has made him a prominent figure in the sound community. Previous credits of his include Gate 67’s The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw, and Ham n Egger’s Rationale, and the TV Series Ominous (Bell Fibe TV1), directed by George Mihalka.
Schaller has been active in multiple immersive audio panels through AES and has even held professor positions at the University of Lethbridge, Buffalo State, and teaches at the Royal Conservatoire in Hague (Netherlands), Camosun College (Canada), and UNTREF, Argentina.
With IMEXsound, he previously worked on projects including Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Symphonic Adventure, Bandai Namco’s The Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure, and SYBO Games’ Subway Surfers franchise. IMEXsound worked with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra to produce the soundtrack for the Danish documentary feature Os der lever.Additionally, albums that Schaller has either produced or co-produced have gone on to garner several awards and accolades, including the German Echo Jazz Award (Best Brass National) on the album Canada, as well as a nomination for the Quarterly Critics’ Choice for the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (German Record Critics’ Award) that included an original composition by Schaller.
Fascinated by the emotional power of the interplay between sound and image, Schaller looks forward to continually embedding himself in the world of composition and expanding into an array of visual and immersive storytelling mediums. Schaller credits his success to his early training in classical piano, clarinet, and sax, ultimately graduating from the Royal Conservatoire The Hague and the Utrecht School of Arts in The Netherlands where he studiedClassical Clarinet, Art of Sound, Sound Design and Composition in Contexts. He currently resides in the greater Niagara Falls and Toronto area
Arne Bock
Arne Bock is a live sound, recording, mixing and mastering engineer. His work encompasses sound system design, optimization, and operation and music production. He has become an expert in acoustic music with a focus on contemporary classical music productions and spatial audio and has worked with internationally acclaimed opera companies and ensembles. His work led Arne to some of the most prestigious performance venues around the world and albums he produced have been released on major labels. His current research focuses on the application of immersive audio tools in live sound and interactive audio/audio-visual audiovisual installations.