Rutger Hoedemaekers

Rutger Hoedemaekers is a recording artist and composer for film and TV.

After creating electronic compositions on his Commodore Amiga 500 as a pre-teen and producing techno and ambient as a young adult, Hoedemaekers spent a year at The Hague’s Royal Conservatory studying composition. He went on to write and produce for electronic and rock acts in the Netherlands before moving to Berlin with plans to found a studio. Together with two friends, Hoedemaekers converted a 3500 sq. ft. factory floor in Kreuzberg into a modular studio with 8 rooms, with tenants like Jóhann Jóhannsson, Dustin O’Halloran and Hildur Gudnadottir.

In Berlin, Hoedemaekers quickly turned his attention towards composing for film and TV. Starting in 2015, he scored the Icelandic crime series Trapped (BBC4, France 2, ZDF) in collaboration with Jóhannsson and Gudnadottir. He joined forces with Jóhannsson again on Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! (2017) and James Marsh’s The Mercy (2018), for which he wrote additional music. Hoedemaekers subsequently wrote the score for the Hulu/ARTE series No Man's Land (2020).

In 2020, he signed with FatCat’s imprint 130701 and released his first album on the label to critical acclaim, aptly titled The Age Of Oddities (2021). In 2022, he contributed eight original pieces to Ed Perkins' HBO documentary The Princess, alongside a score by Martin Phipps.

Most recently, Hoedemaekers created the score for the Angelina Jolie-directed feature Without Blood, starring Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir, which premiered at TIFF 2024, while also delivering an all-electronic soundtrack for the Belgian-German sci-fi thriller series Moresnet.

TV

Moresnet (2024)
Production Company: Caviar Films / SkyShowtime
Creators: Jef Hoogmartens, Jonas Van Geel, Frank Van Passel

Trapped (Ófærð - Seasons 1-3) (2015-2021)
Production Company: RVK Studios
Directors: Börkur Sigþórsson, Baltasar Kormákur, Óskar Thór Axelsson

No Man’s Land (2020)
Production Company: Haut Et Court TV/Hulu
Director: Oded Ruskin

FILM
Without Blood (2024)
Production Company: De Maio Entertainment
Director: Angelina Jolie

Shangri-La, Paradise under Construction (2022)
Production Company: De Productie
Directors: Mirka Duijn, Nina Spiering

The Princess (Additional Music) (2022)
Production Company: Lightbox/ HBO Max
Director: Ed Perkins

The Last Berliner (2018)
Production Company: Film13
Director: Gregor Erler

The Mercy (2018)
Production Company: StudioCanal
Director: Edem Kelman 

Mother! (Additional Music) (2017)
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Director: Darren Aronofsky