{"id":9,"date":"2016-07-30T12:18:01","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T10:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2026-01-15T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:10:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-scaled-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/DOMiNiK_MATZKA_by_MiNZKUNST0239-1-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Dominik Matzka, born 1994 in Munich, is a film composer, songwriter and spaceholder. He produces electronic and acoustic music, songs and orchestral works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The magic of storytelling seized him early on and since then has never stopped. On the age of eleven, he wrote his first <a href=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/film-music\/en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/film-music\/en\">film scores<\/a> \u2013 to self-shot movies. Subsequently, he was taught composition by Michael Proksch and later on by Vladimir Genin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wind of the new and foreign blew him further and further into the open sea of music, to various treasure islands: to Gustav Mahler, Kate Bush, Meredith Monk, whale song and the rituals of tibetan monks. He studied classical composition at Kunstuniversit\u00e4t Graz and film music at Filmakademie Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg. His diploma was completed in 2020 and included \u2013 among others \u2013 the soundtrack to the award-winning documentary \u201eIf objects could speak\u201c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After several band projects, Dominik Matzkas <a href=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/pop-songs\/en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/pop-songs\/en\">pop debut<\/a> \u201eOffene Augen\u201c (\u201eOpen Eyes\u201c) came out in July 2022. It was followed by his first EP called \u201eUntersberg\u201c in 2023, from which three singles were lifted, and the single &#8220;Was ist dann los&#8221; (&#8220;What&#8217;s going on then&#8221;). His songs combine lyrical independent pop with the power and spaciousness of cinematic sound worlds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominik Matzka lives in Freiburg with his partner. He teaches composition, ear training and musical theory at Musikschule Freiburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominik Matzka, born 1994 in Munich, is a film composer, songwriter and spaceholder. He produces electronic and acoustic music, songs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":177,"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dominik-matzka.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}