Ivan Stadtrucker

Prof. Ing. Ivan Stadtrucker Csc. (Born January 22, 1935 and died - May 26, 2017 in Krupina) was a Slovak screenwriter, dramaturgist, director of short films, writer, sound engineer technician, film theorist and teacher.

In 1953 Ivan Stadtrucker graduated from the Zvolen Grammar School. Finally, he graduated in Radio, Film and Television Technology from the Czech Technical University in Prague.

Profession At the time of graduating in 1958, television began to develop fully in Slovakia and Stadtrucker was accepted as a television technician on television in Bratislava. After two years he became the head of sound production on television, where he founded and led the first studio for electronic music in Czechoslovakia. Around the 1960s, there was a change in stylistics in film production in Slovakia, and this change also involved the composition of film music. Ivan Stadtrucker was one of the first with Ilj Zeljenko to experiment with a new method of composing film music. Electronic music began to be used in conjunction with specific music (musique concrète) . In the movie The Sun in the Net (1962) directed by Štefan Uhr, he wrote such music for Ilja Zeljenka, who uses the soundtrack to create a continuous band of various modulated sounds in the film (for example, the Danube pontoon water connection with giggling giggles).