'Tales Of The Ocean City' Kaufman is presently creating new chapters
in his prodigious 'direct to audio' Epic Fantasy Series 'Tales
Of The Ocean City'. He is developing it as an ipad application
for a truly immersive experience.
Kaufman was writing stories since he was five years old and is
enjoying this method of story-telling he has developed, which
puts together thrilling adventure story, dramatic narration and
continuous cinematographic music - where the music is an equal
partner and participates of the syntax of the writing. The work
is presented in 'episodic form' - each episode being of approximately
five minutes duration.
At present Kaufman has about an hour and a half of vivid and exciting
material. By the end of 2012 the 'overall first volume' of 'Tales
Of The Ocean City' will be complete - and over four hours in length.
Kaufman is using the app process, radio and, later, live performances
to move this project forward.
In
2011 Kaufman Completed ThreeWorks for Orchestra:
Visit their project pages by pressing titles: MYTHAGOS SPIRIT *
and ISLAND ('Eeslahnd')
*Recently Perofmed Twice April
2012: The Southwest Minnesota Orchestra under the direction of
Daniel Rieppel.
Kaufman
enjoyed speaking
about his work at Queens College (9/27/11)
at a composers seminar held under the
auspices of Professor Hubert
Howe.
Kaufman spoke about his environmental
pieces and played a few small films to the
delight of the participants.
ASCAPLus
Award Recipient! This award recognizes composers whose
performances are primarily in venues not surveyed by ASCAP; and/or
writer members whose catalogs have prestige value for which they
would not otherwise be compensated.
This award is a wonderful opportunity for those of us who work in
contemporary music genres that have many of our performances in
alternative spaces, and countries that are not surveyed by ASCAP
or may not follow international copyright law.
Kaufman is most grateful to receive this
honor and thanks ASCAP and the Concert Division Board for recognizing
his work.
Friday,
July 22, 8:00 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, 27 Albany St., Cazenovia: info HERE:
Read Melinda
Johnson's Article about this performance in the Syracuse Post-Standard
HERE:
Kaufman on itunes!!!
50
Tracks of Music Selected and Released in 'Digital Opus One' now available
on many on-line stores worldwide.
Distributed
through Reverbnation you may visit 'Chris Kaufman's
Sonic Emporium' to listen and purchase his music. They are
organized into 6 Albums: 'Sonic Stories' (featuring his thrilling
adventure story "Tales of the Ocean City'), 'Music For Your Imagination',
'Environmental Music', 'Classical Chamber Music and Songs', 'Soundtracks'
and 'Miniatures'.
This
impressive duo - featuring Oleg
Kruglyakov (Balalaika) and Terry
Boyarsky (Piano) - is of growing world-wide fame and has asked
Kaufman to write a new work for the 2012 season. The new work will
feature narration and music to theatrically express Russian Folk-Tales.
Oleg and Terry are expanding the repertoire of the balalaika and celebrate
cross-cultural creativity. Kaufman looks forward to working with them
to create a feast for the imagination and is deeply honored to be
the first American composer to add to the balalaika/piano repertoire!
Visit their site to read more about their inspiring work!
Tuesday
March 22nd, 2011 tubist Dave
Unland premiered the solo tuba version of Hudson Valley Music
at Ithaca College (Hockett Hall).
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The version of 'Hudson Valley Music' designed for Ensemble
Pi - was performed in the Great Hall of Cooper Union- MARCH
19th, 2011
In advance of the performance Kaufman participated
on 2 radio shows: WKCR Columbia University Radio on March 15 (89.9
FM) and March 14th WBAI (99.5 FM) - about HVM and other topics. ____________________________________
Kaufman
has also created 'redesigns' of 'Hudson Valley' for solo artists such
as David Unland,
Barbara Oldham,
Matt Sullivan, and others.
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Last
summer Kaufman completed a work for Violin and Piano titled OCEAN
in which he applies ideas from HVM into a traditional chamber music
context - turning, for example, whale-song into themes and motives.
Like HVM the music of OCEAN expresses the beauty of and identification
with nature and 'Outrage' - here in the movement 'Oil in the Water'.
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Here
is a shot from the final performance of the opening tour of 'Hudson
Valley Music' with Quintet of the Americas - at NYU's Frederick Loewe
Theater: in the foreground you see artist Ken-Cro-Ken
enacting a live painting as part of the performance:
Christopher
Kaufman's HUDSON VALLEY MUSIC features a
CDTape composed of hundreds of natural sounds from the Hudson Valley
Environment and compelling visuals comprised of natural imagery and
the art of Ken-Cro-Ken and
Alice Cotton.
HUDSON
VALLEY MUSIC celebrates the beauty and nature of the Hudson Valley
as well as delivering a message concerning environmental preservation.
PRESS for more information.
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LITTLE COURAGE (Independent Film) - screened at the The New York International
Latino Film festival: Now being screened at similar events around
the country.
LITTLE COURAGE
Clearview Cinemas Chelsea Screen 8, 12:00 PM Sat, Aug 01
W 23rd St & 8th Ave, New York, NY
LITTLE COURAGE
SVA Theater Screen 1, 3:00 PM Fri, Jul 31
23rd Street Bet. 8th and 9th Ave., New York, NY
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LITTLE COURAGE was also recently screened at the Lower East Side Arts
Festival.
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Bombastiq Brass is performing my 'Theme and Variations on a Tune by
T.'Fats' Waller'.
.....
Christopher
Kaufman at Carnegie Hall .........
On
1/31/09 I delivered a speech representing OBAMA Music, Arts and Entertainment.
The brilliant New York Empire Trio, of the Bulgarian Virtuosi, performed.
Their concert included a work by Bulgarian composer Roumi
Petrova which I also introduced. I spoke about ObamaMae, the founder
Marla Turner, of my experiences with ObamaMae and the participation
of myself and other artists in Barack Obama's successful Presidential
Campaign.
.
"Mark Sutton is the host and
producer of Liberal Arts, the radio show that explores the arts from
an unapologetically political perspective." Visit his site here:
Liberal
Arts Radio
I
was recently interviewed by Mark Sutton on his show the week of October
20, 2008. Feel free to visit the link and listen to the interview
- you also hear the full interview above - which includes my setting
of Barack Obama's North Carolina Victory Speech and our discussion
of political action. You can also hear the featured work CALL FOR
CHANGE - Victory N.C. on the music player above. Also you can listen
to Mark's interview (on his site) with Marla Turner who founded the
site Obama Music Arts and Entertainment
where I was FEATURED ARTIST OF THE MONTH (August):: and where you
can find my member page and download politically inspired music. All
thanks to Mark and Marla! - two very impressive individuals.
Won
the LOFTCITY VIRAL AD *AWARD - with writer/director Julian Overall.
Scored
the film AZREAL with Italian director Eliana De Paolis. Completed
full sound design for film 'THE LAST SON...' with Indian writer/director
Varun Shah.
My
music has been used for the Wall Street Journal 'Foward Thinking'
campaign viewable here:Forward
Thinking and 'J.D.Robb Salvation' for cable tv with Peter Cascone
(4-D Creative Media).
Demetrius
Spaneas
- composer for film and concert stage / virtuoso performer (saxophone,
clarinet, flute) - world traveling new music champion - read more
about him and listen to his music by visiting his site.
MUSIC
FROM EARTH:
- for Alto Saxophone Soloist and Tape of Western/Eastern Orchestra,
Electronic and Natural Sounds::
MUSIC
FROM EARTH was composed during the last two weeks of August, 2007
for Saxophonist and New Music Champion Demetrius Spaneas. It is part
of a series of works inspired by Environmental Awareness, the leadership
of Al Gore and others, my own sense of these issues and my love of
the sounds involved. Demetrius has premiered the work in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan (11/7/7) and performed it at the DOM Cultural Center in
Moscow. He continued to tour the work with a number of other pieces
of American music (including his own) in locations such as Kyrgyzstan,
the Ukraine, Bulgaria, St. Petersburg and Riga, Latvia. Now we will
perform it in America. When possible the performances include a film
of natural imagery. This film, which I created, uses microscopic images
and images of familiar forms close up so as to appear abstract as
well as recognizable natural images such as creatures and geographical
forms.
HEAR
EXCERPTS from MUSIC FROM EARTH at 'Chris
Kaufman's Sonic Emporium', itunes, view the film at Live Earth
or my youtube channel :
*[All Sounds are 'watermarked'
for protection and copywritten.]
You
can find me on the American Composers Forum, the American Music Center
and others.
Acknowledgements:
Thanks to the many who have helped me on my way: my family, my teachers,
my many artistic friends and collaborators, and advisors. - all new
and old. And especially my dear wife Maryclare for her love and constant
support.
A Poem
written by Chris's mother - Actress/ScreenWriter Anna
Filameno
I Came
Here To Dance
I came here for raindrops
teeming down a storm
creating a wakeful uproar
and a lot of brouhaha
I came here for sunshine
steaming up the place
hot with fierce reactions
to set the world on fire
I came here for wind gales
twisting through the air
taking wild advances
and kicking up a storm
I came here for winter
the cold within my heart
taking biting chances
and freezing off my ass
I came here for springtime
breaking through the womb
folding like a fetus
pushing to be born
I came here to dance
to the music in my heart
a wild and untamed journey
to all those mad, mad places
You can hear Anna reading her Poem 'Sometimes' with Kaufman's musical
orchestration accompaniment in the album 'Music For The Imagination'
found at 'Chris Kaufman's Sonic Emporium'
'Tales Of The Ocean City'
...
Christopher
Kaufman at Carnegie Hall .........
"Mark Sutton is the host and
producer of Liberal Arts, the radio show that explores the arts from
an unapologetically political perspective." Visit his site here:
