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 wasn’t easy becoming an investigative producer interviewing people about their illicit radio show!

davidgoren.net

pirateradiomap.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pirateradiomap

Twitter: @shortwaveology

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/shortwaveology

A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests.

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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

https://www.petercunninghamphotography.com

Peter’s influences are:

LESTER TATE Baptist fisherman on Grand Manan Island- 

petercunninghamphotography.com/grand-manan-disappearing-culture 

DAVID MCALLESTER - professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University, a specialist in the plains Indian singing. Before I picked up a camera, I learned from David how to be a “participant-observer”.

JANIS IAN: singer and songwriter. I dropped out of college to go on the road with Janis. From her I learned what it means to be an artist. www.janisian.com

ADGER COWANS, photographer and first teacher - adgercowans.com 

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN. Bruce is one of many performing artists from the NY theater and musical stages that taught me the power of presence. petercunninghamphotography.com/spirit-in-the-night-stories-2

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON  who I assisted for a month in 1975, we made a portrait of The State iof New Jersey

BERNIE GLASSMAN - Zen teacher from Coney Island, we traveled together for 35 years. From Bernie I learned the value of entering any situation without preconception and then bearing witness to what was arising - with or without a camera.  cnn.com/2018/11/30/us/bernie-glassman-american-zen-master/index.html   or   https://www.petercunninghamphotography.com/stage-2

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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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 such as The New York Times bestseller Antoni in the Kitchen by Antoni Porowski. 

Her clients have ranged from Absolut and Hennessy to  KitchenAid, Knorr and Bon Appetit. 

Influences

Delores Custer - Lisa’s mentor. 

http://lisahoma.com/blog  

Paul Grimes - initially knew as a chef and then excellent food stylist. He did a lot for Gourmet Magazine in it’s heyday.

Juan Sanchez Cotan – Spanish Baroque painter 1560 - 1627

@lisahoma.

lisahoma.com

Radio Feature Jude made with Lisa for Studio 360 on PRI:

https://www.wnyc.org/story/107549-still-life-sells/

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.

A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests.

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Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.

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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, and the first person commissioned to create an original work on Jacob Jonas The Company. Omar has created works for The Ailey School and David Parsons Dance.

Links to Omar Website: https://www.bocatuya.com

Instagram: @bocatuya____ 

https://www.instagram.com/bocatuya____/

Facebook: Omar Roman De Jesus

https://www.facebook.com/omar.r.jesus

https://bacnyc.org/performances/performance/omar-roman-de-jesus

Influences

The choreographer Omar cites:

https://www.aszurebarton.com/about

Omar talks about how Salvador Dali influences the dream imagery he uses in his dances

Music Influences

Héctor Lavoe

La Lupe 

Frankie Ruiz

Rubén Blades 

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.

A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests.

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Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.

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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 cultural identity and also become a very American artist.

LINKS

https://www.steppenwolf.org/ensemble/member-pages/yasen--peyankov/

https://theatreandmusic.uic.edu/people/yasen-m-peyankov/

https://activepitch.com/yasenpeyankov

Yasen’s Influences:-

Prof. Krikor Azaryan - my professor and mentor at the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Bulgaria, extraordinary man and theater director. I am who I am as an artist because of him

John Malkovich - the most enigmatic actor/director I have ever worked with 

Daniel Day Lewis - hands down the best actor of all times, complete chameleon, fiercely intelligent, he simply disappears in the roles

Charlie Chaplin - the best film artist ever, brilliant in everything - writing, acting, directing, composing 

Anton Chekhov - the best playwright of all times, his plays are an ocean, every time I start swimming in them, I never see the horizon

Books: For Whom the Bell Tolls and Farewell to the Arms - Earnest Hemingway 

Music: The Beatles, Pink Floyd (Wish You Were Here is sublime and always makes me cry), Queen (Freddie Mercury is a genius!)

Art: Love the impressionists: Van Gogh, Gaugin. Also love Chagall. His story telling and theatricality is something that inspires me as a director.

Productions: The productions of the Maly Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia under the direction of Lev Dodin

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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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
incredibly lonely and she asks Jude for advice
about how to do more radio drama in the UK.

Antonia’s influences and inspirations are:
Hanya Yanagihara (‘A Little Life’),
Raymond Carver
Tenessee Williams,
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kathryn Hunter
Miranda July
Bryony Kimmings

Roisin Murphy
Anne Karpf
Sangeeta Mahajan
Maxi Jazz
Frances McDormand
The Entire Levy Family - especially Anne Margaret! otherwise known as Moira!
Angela Carter
Rachel Cusk
Fanny Herrero
Camille Contin

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.

A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests.

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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, 

http://martarenzi.blogspot.com

Filmography page, which has trailers 

http://aboutmartarenzi.blogspot.com/2006/12/about-marta-renzi.html

Composers/ music for some of Marta’s dance films:

Inna Barmash

https://www.innabarmash.com

Emily Holden

https://soundslikeemily.com

Amelia Robinson

ameliarobinsonco.uk

Dave Bass

https://davebassgospel.com

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.

A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests.

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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 Features Conference regularly and found inspiring peers and mentors in sound auteurs from France, Germany and Scandinavia.

https://www.batteryradio.com/

Literary influences:

John Berger: Into Their Labours trilogy

Michael Ondaatje: Coming Through Slaughter

James Agee & Walker Evans: Now Let Us Praise Famous Men

Audio features:

Kaye Mortley: Springtime it Brings on the Shearing

Peter Leonhard Braun: Bells in Europe

ARTE & Radio Grenouille: (Anouk Batard, Mehdi Ahoudig): Who Killed Lolita?

Charles Parker, Peggy Seeger, Ewan MacColl: The Radio Ballads

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.

A broadcaster, writer and coach, Jude gently probes and challenges her so that whatever your line of creativity you learn from her advice and the experiences of her lively guests.

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Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.

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Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.