"I really slipped into film music," Alex Kirschner told us. "I went to the Berkeley College of Music 15 years ago. I had friends who were working in film productions and I always loved films a lot. I got offers as a musician and I succeeded. It has been step to step all the way. Now I compose music for films in Switzerland, also in Germany, for all kinds of films, feature films, commercials..."

"Irrlichter - which could be translated into Misleading Lights - is a film with a couple of well-known German and Swiss actors. It is about a person going into a cave for experimentation purposes in isolation studies. It is basically a love story (laughs). As always with film scores, I composed it very fast. There are string samples. I play a lot of guitar because I am actually a guitar player, with a lot of effects, reverb, delay... I also worked with stone samples, from a Swiss musician who makes stone drums."

"There aren't many well financed Swiss films; there are some co-productions where there is a possibility to work, maybe as a film composer. I definitely earn some of my money with commercials, which allows me to work on films where the budget isn't so great but where the heart beats stronger."

Alex Kirschner's latest work is "Atlas - A Global Journey," a CD which groups Swiss musicians and musicians from all over the world.