
28 episodes

Creative Confidential with Jude Kampfner Jude Kampfner
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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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Creative Rewind: David Goren - Independent Radio Producer and Audio Archivist
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
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.
REACH OUT TO JUDE:-
Jude's Website
Jude on Twitter
Jude on LinkedIn
Jude on Instagram
Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker. https://www.genepritsker.com/
Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.
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Episode 28 : Peter Cunningham - Illuminating Images
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.
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.
REACH OUT TO JUDE: -
Jude's Website
Jude on Twitter
Jude on LinkedIn
Jude on Instagram
Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.
https://www.genepritsker.com/
Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.
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Episode 27: The Look of Food, with Lisa Homa
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.
REACH OUT TO JUDE: -
Jude's Website
Jude on Twitter
Jude on LinkedIn
Jude on Instagram
Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.
https://www.genepritsker.com/
Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.
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Episode 26: Omar Roman de Jesus - A Queer LatinX Choreographer and company director
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.
REACH OUT TO JUDE: -
Jude's Website
Jude on Twitter
Jude on LinkedIn
Jude on Instagram
Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.
https://www.genepritsker.com/
Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.
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Episode 25: Yasen Peyankov - Working with Chekhov, Malkovich and Tea Leoni
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.
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.
REACH OUT TO JUDE: -
Jude's Website
Jude on Twitter
Jude on LinkedIn
Jude on Instagram
Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.
https://www.genepritsker.com/
Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.
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Creative Rewind: Antonia Beamish - Audio book narrator, globe-trotting actor, with an awesome array of accents
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.
REACH OUT TO JUDE: -
Jude's Website
Jude on Twitter
Jude on LinkedIn
Jude on Instagram
Theme music composed by Gene Pritsker.
https://www.genepritsker.com/
Show Producer and Editor, Mark McDonald. Launch YOUR podcast here.
Customer Reviews
Smart and sparky
Cool artists talk about how they make a living and make changes. Jude is a smart, curious,knowledgeable interview. A fun and educational listen. Highly recommentd.
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AMAZING!
Jude interviews extraordinary people who are not necessarily well known (yet) and who inspire people like me - creative, energetic, and also not very well known! Jude's interviews are a delight to listen to and bring light to the creative processes of her remarkable guests.