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Chris Julian is an award winning composer/producer,
sound editor/designer, mixer, and foley artist
whose work spans the record, film, and television
industries. In genres ranging from rock, to hip-hop
/ R&B, to jazz, to film sound Chris has earned
a 2006 Emmy Award,
and dozens of Gold
and Platinum records. In the last 24 months
Chris’ post sound work has been featured
in films earning 6 major
award wins and 14 major award nominations, including
10 Emmy nominations and 1 Emmy win for A&E’s
poignant film, "Flight
93" (see: www.seismicFX.com
for more film sound info). His contributions as
studio owner, engineer, programmer, and player
have merited his esteemed clients 4
Grammy Nominations . Artists such as David
Bowie, Chaka Khan, De La Soul, Deee-Lite, Don
Was, Queen Latifah, Jimmy Webb, Art Garfunkel,
Afrika Bambaataa, Vanessa Williams, and David
Crosby have worked with Chris, seeking his unique
sound and approach to writing, playing, and producing
(see: CREDITS &
LISTEN for a more complete client list).
In the motion picture industry Chris and his
collaborators have written music for, and done
post sound for films including The
Pelican Brief, starring
Julia Roberts, Richie Rich, Wyatt Earp, starring
Kevin Costner, Benji II, Hard Luck, starring
Wesley Snipes, Mario Van Peebles, and Cybil Sheppard,
Black Dawn, starring Steven Seagal, Ellie
Parker, starring Naomi Watts and Chevy Chase.
He has contributed post sound production in dozens
of recent feature films starring actors such as
Academy Award Winner, Lee Marvin,
Academy Award Winner, Olympia
Dukakis, Academy
Award Nominee, Elliot Gould, Academy
Award Nominee, JoBeth Williams, Billy
Baldwin, Kathleen Quinlan, James Van Der Beek,
Tom Arnold, Linda Hamilton, Joe Mantegna,
Edward Furlong, David Carradine, Tara Reid, Mark
Hamill, Elle Fanning, Danny Glover, Michael York,
Alexander Nevsky, Beau Bridges, and many
more (see: www.seismicFX.com/CREDITS
for 50 most recent film credits).
Chris is the owner of the Treefort
Recording Studio, Chris Julian Productions,
and seismicFX,
a film post production sound company. A founding
and current member of the alt-rock band, Mercy
Curve, he’will continue touring and recording
and producing their latest album set for release
in December, 2007, along with many other music
and film projects (see: NEWS
for other current projects).
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Calliope
During the eighties and early nineties Chris owned
and was the founder of Calliope Productions, a
NYC based music production company which among
other things, became ground zero for the now legendary
East Coast hip-hop movement known as the Native
Tongues. Comprised of artists De La Soul, Black
Sheep, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Chi Ali, The
Beatnuts, and others, the movement promoted Black
roots awareness and a new, progressive, brainy,
"hippy" sensibility within the hip-hop
community.
BANG
Also during his years in Manhattan, Chris was the co-owner and co-founder of Bang Music, (www.bangworld.com), a NYC based cutting-edge, youth oriented commercial music production company. Bang, still operating today, continues with the brash moniker "we’re the commercial music company that doesn’t do commercial music". With Bang, Chris and his colleagues wrote and produced commercials for Coke, Pepsi, Mercedes Benz, Anheuser-Busch, Ford, Burger King, The American Cancer Society, Proctor and Gamble, Sony, and a host of other national sponsors.
A native New Yorker now based in Topanga, California, Chris is classically trained in voice, trombone, and Timpani. He is a session player and arranger on guitar, bass, strings, horns, and keyboards, and his ability to arrange, record live drums, and program and sample/loop drums is unrivaled. He attended Syracuse University from 1975 -1979 and earned a BS degree in Television and Radio Production.
Chris performs live on guitar, keyboards, and bass and
toured as lead singer for six years around the US
with his rock band.
Chris' knowledge and
experience in arranging, writing and producing music,
recording, mixing, and editing film sound effects
has kept him in demand. He's as comfortable
with a chart for first violin, as he is with a James
Brown sample, roaring jets, or monster footsteps
in the mud.
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