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seismicFX foley was founded by
noted sound guru Chris Julian, an award winning
foley artist, foley mixer, foley supervisor, foley
editor, and music composer/producer whose work spans
the film, record, and television industries. In
genres ranging from film sound, to rock, to hip-hop
/ R&B, to jazz, Chris has earned an Emmy
Award, and dozens of Gold
and Platinum records . In the last 24
months Chris’ foley artistry and foley mixing
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 ”. His contributions as studio
owner, engineer, programmer, and player have merited
his esteemed clients 4
Grammy Nominations .
In the late nineties Chris began focusing on the art of foley. He studied under foley superstar, Alicia Stevenson, and honed his craft working for many noted supervisors, including Larry Blake, Pat Bietz, Multiple Emmy Award-winner Mark Linden, Emmy Award-winner Harry Snodgrass, and Clancy Troutman. Through the years he has performed as foley artist and foley mixer in dozens of 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, Naomi Watts, Chevy Chase, Cybil Sheppard, Billy Baldwin, Kathleen Quinlan, Wesley Snipes, Mario Van Peebles, James Van Der Beek, Steven Seagal, Tom Arnold, Linda Hamilton, Joe Mantegna, Edward Furlong, Daniel Baldwin, William Shatner, David Carradine, Tara Reid, Mark Hamill, Elle Fanning, Danny Glover, Michael York, Alexander Nevsky, Beau Bridges, and many more (see: seismicFXfoley/CREDITS for 50 most recent film credits). |
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| 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. Acclaimed artists David Bowie, Chaka
Khan, Deee-Lite, Don Was, 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
for a more complete list). |
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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 attended Syracuse University from 1975-1979 and earned a BS degree in Television and Radio Production. Chris also plays 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, or monster footsteps in the mud. |
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