vogelscheiss: chuck graef’s sonic blog

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Provided music for Shopping For Trouble, a film by Seth Berg, “ringmaster” of the Telluride Film Festival.

A very nice trippy mix!  Also includes work by Aphex Twin and DJ Shadow.  Can be heard here or below.

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Currently scoring a series of video episodes titled Z.E.R.O.: War of the Dead, following the adventures of a ragtag paramilitary team of zombie-hunters. The series is produced by Spherewerx Media in association with Fangoria TV.

See a clip here:

Hear my theme music for the series:

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I provided music for a Travel Channel documentary titled 40th Parallel.

Completed music for a film produced by Calvin Klein to showcase its Spring 2007 womenswear collection designed by CFDA Designer Of The Year, Francisco Costa.  Over the fall, the film is being screened in Paris, Milan, and other european cities, as well as at the CK Summit in Shanghai.  Chris Romero directed.

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Scored Lord Of The Rinks, a short film directed by Darren Roark and produced by Catherine Campion, with art direction by Amy Demas.  The film is included in the 2006 48-Hour Film Festival, Minneapolis.

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I recently had the privilege of providing music for The 2006 CFDA Womenswear Designer of the Year Film, which is now available for download as a podcast from iTunes.

The film was played on Monday, June 5th, 2006 in New York as part of the awards ceremony - often called “The Oscars of Fashion” - which included such fashion-loving celebrity presenters as Scarlett Johansson, Alicia Keys, John Legend and Lindsay Lohan, mixing with fashion names such as Donna Karan, Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, Karl Lagerfeld, Vera Wang, Proenza Schouler and Zac Posen (thanks to Adrian Romero for that description).

I worked closely with writer-director Chris Romero to create a new version of my piece Stonfluent Smansion under very tight timing, about which he was kind enough to say in his own announcement, “Charles put in a huge effort and did an amazing job on the remix of his track with less than a day’s notice. He is a hugely talented guy and I am extremely grateful.” Back atcha, Chris. The music heard on a radio at the beginning of the film is by songwriter and killer guitarist Adrian Romero.

My piece Episodic (B) is included in a half-hour documentary program titled Eclipse Chasers: Ghana produced for the Travel Channel. Initial airtimes include April 26, 2006 @ 8pm, April 26, 2006 @ 11pm, and April 30, 2006 @ 2am.

Created a signature musical theme for videos produced by the Chickenhead family of websites.