Episode 20: Judith Sloan - Performer, writer, oral historian, lyricist, and community activist
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Release Date: 07/21/2022
Creative Rewind: David Goren - Independent Radio Producer and Audio Archivist
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
This week's guest is David Goren, an independent radio producer and audio archivist based in NY whose company is called Handsewn Radio. His programs for the BBC and NPR have showcased outlaws of the airwaves. He focuses on the people and sounds of community radio: from shortwave to pirate radio stations operating from church basements, bodegas and bedrooms. He has created a Brooklyn Pirate Radio Sound Map and he’s now in partnership with the sound preservation program of the Library of Congress. He began his career as a radio engineer primarily recording jazz from Lincoln Center. It...
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Episode 28 : Peter Cunningham - Illuminating Images
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Peter Cunningham tells stories with his photos. He pairs images and so abstract photos are in relationship with each other and we wonder what’s about to happen. He was an assistant to the great Henry Cartier Bresson in 1975 when Bresson was making a photo documentary about New Jersey. He went onto shoot stars like Madonna and Springsteen and Broadway actors. As his career unfolded he became more interested in watching how light illuminates images so that they become abstracted. He became a Zen follower and his photography was informed by new ways of seeing. Link...
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Episode 27: The Look of Food, with Lisa Homa
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Lisa Homa is a Philly-based food stylist and recipe developer. She shares some of the tricks of her trade. How to make fake ice cream, how to raise the vegetables in a soup and how to make a turkey look golden in just the right places although it’s had to be undercooked for the shoot. She talks about her journey from graphics and publishing pre-press to culinary school allowed her to combine a love of photography and the visual arts with a passion for food. Her food styling career has taken her as far as Korea, Cyprus and Italy. She relishes collaborating on cookbooks...
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Episode 26: Omar Roman de Jesus - A Queer LatinX Choreographer and company director
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Omar Román De Jesús is a Queer LatinX choreographer and company director who creates rhythmic narratives through contemporary dance forms, improvisation, and dance theater techniques. He began formal dance training in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. He won the Championship Cup and Gold Medal at the National Dance Competition in Puerto Rico. He’s since danced with Parsons Dance, Ballet Hispánico and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company. He was one of the winning choreographers for the Joffrey Academy of Dance's 8th annual Winning Works Choreographic Competition,...
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Episode 25: Yasen Peyankov - Working with Chekhov, Malkovich and Tea Leoni
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Yasen Peyankov who trained at Bulgaria’s elite theater school, left Sofia immediately after the Berlin Wall came down and went to Chicago to act, direct and form his own theatre group. In 2002 he became an ensemble member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and has acted, directed and translated plays for them ever since. His translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull performed in the round was his most recent production for the 2021 – 2022 season. He’s also a professor of drama at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Measured, wry, thoughtful and modest, Yasen has retained his...
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Creative Rewind: Antonia Beamish - Audio book narrator, globe-trotting actor, with an awesome array of accents
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
British actor Antonia Beamish has recorded at least 8 pages on the Audible website. She reads fiction and nonfiction titles and enjoys the vitality of horror stories even though she doesn’t read them for pleasure. She talks about how to keep the characters and their accents separate as she makes her way through the hours of recording a book. She believes acting with the full body as a narrator is vital to bring voices to life. She’s lived and worked in America and recalls the uncertainty of making career plans on short term visas. She explains that the life of a book narrator is...
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Episode 24: Marta Renzi - The Ineffability of Dance
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Marta Renzi is a dancer, choreographer and film maker. She’s based in Nyack, New York. As a young dancer she was picked by choreographer Twyla Tharp to dance in the movie of Hair. Her films have been shown in 38 countries and over 300 festivals. They are often site specific, joyful, about community and have a strong sense of social narrative and relationships rather than plot. They are beautiful, accessible, and evocative. She likes to work with vocal music. Marta’s blogspot, Filmography page, which has trailers Composers/ music for some of Marta’s...
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Episode 23: Chris Brookes - Finding the silence in the middle of the sound
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Canadian audio artist, journalist and actor, Chris Brookes lives in St John’s, Newfoundland near Battery Hill, where Marconi set up his receiving tower in the first transatlantic wireless experiment. Brookes began his career running a theatre company creating documentary style productions that influenced government legislation. He then worked as a current affairs producer for the weekly 3 hour show ‘CBC Sunday Morning’. He says he always considered himself an artist rather than an employee of a broadcasting company. As an independent audio producer, he’s attended the European...
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Episode 22: Victoria Bond - A conductor writing operas about powerful women
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Growing up she was a pianist and a singer, and in her twenties, Victoria Bond become the first woman to receive a doctorate in orchestral conducting from the Juilliard School. Since then she’s served as music director and conductor for major orchestras. Composition is her first love she explains, but it’s taken time to carve out the space to devote herself to it. She’s composed music in nearly every genre: symphonic works, chamber music, keyboard, operas and other vocal music, and music for dance. Many of the subjects of her operas are powerful women - most recently she wrote a work for...
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Episode 21: Eric Maisel - Coaching the Real World Artist
Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner
Dr. Eric Maisel is a retired licensed family therapist who founded the profession of creativity coaching. He actively maintains a thriving creativity coaching practice. He’s written more than 50 books of fiction and non fiction. He talks to Jude about how the artist with a life purpose has to exist in the context of the real world. He offers advice and opinion on some of the issues that have come up from Jude’s chat with guests in previous episodes on how to be successfully and happily fulfilled creatives. Links Recent publications: Why Smart Teens Hurt The Great Book of...
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Judith Sloan tells stories about her community where 167 languages are spoken. In 2003 she and her husband Warren Lehrer published Crossing the BLVD a kaleidoscopic view of refugees and new immigrants living in the borough of Queens New York. Since then, Judith has explored new multimedia forms combining fiction and documentary to enable teenagers and women from war torn countries to chronicle their stories. She’s received grants from the Queens Council on the Arts, the NY Council on the Arts Grant and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She and Warren have an artist driven nonprofit organization called Earsay dedicated to workshops, youth programs and cultural dialogue.
Links
Song Credits
Dance Teacher: Malika Kalontarova from Crossing the BLVD audio CD- Recorded and produced by Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer.
If Money Were a Skirt- music and lyrics by Judith Sloan, singer Meah Pace, Music Production Josh Valleau
Listen to Me: developed out of the EarSay workshops with Judith Sloan, Emily Wexler, written by Cheryle Chong and Judith Sloan and sung and arranged by the group. Produced by Judith Sloan (there are two versions use whichever you want.)
What's Your Status: written and performed by Judith Sloan, music by Taylor Rivelli, Frank London
Judith’s Inspirations
In 2005 I saw this by the French director:
Ariane Mnouchkine
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/01/the-new-nomads
In 2020 right before Covid outbreak
I was lucky enough to see Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown
Heather Cox Richardson – American Historian
I usually am more inspired by the visceral feeling in a live theater event but I read this book several years ago and had the same respect for the story and the writing.
Jennifer Clement's Prayers for the Stolen
Anything by Colson Whitehead.
Each week in Creative Confidential Jude Kampfner chats to an independent professional performance or visual artist about how they survive and thrive. They share details of moving between projects, becoming more entrepreneurial, finding the best opportunities and developing a signature image and style. Her guests range from lyricists to novelists, videographers to sound designers.
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