Adam Samuel Goldman

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Adam Samuel Goldman
Adam Samuel Goldman, Los Angeles, 2018
Adam Samuel Goldman, Los Angeles, 2018
Background information
Also known asSamuel Bing
BornSyosset, New York, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • television and film composer
  • music producer
  • songwriter
  • artist
Instruments
  • vocals
  • guitar
  • synthesizer
Years active2001–present
Labels
Associated acts

Adam Samuel Goldman is a Los Angeles–based composer, music producer, and artist. He is best known as songwriter and producer for the art-pop band Fol Chen, which released three albums on Sufjan Stevens's Asthmatic Kitty label from 2009 to 2013 and was noted for its "instantly unique blend of dread and whimsy."[1] He was songwriter and singer for chamber pop band Bedroom Walls and touring guitarist for Liars on their 2008 tour opening for Radiohead.[2] Goldman has produced albums for Andrew Bird and Simone White, remixed songs by Junior Vasquez and David Bowie,[3] and covered Prince for Spin magazine. He is composer for the CBS primetime drama The Code.[4]

Film and Television[]

In 2019, Goldman began scoring the CBS military-legal drama The Code, created by Craig Sweeny and Craig Turk.[5] He scored the documentary film Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro for Showtime and co-wrote the score to Patrik-Ian Polk's feature film Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom, as well as providing songs for the Noah’s Arc television series on Logo TV.[6] He has twice scored nonfiction projects for director Lauren Greenfield, including Beauty CULTure (co-written with Julian Wass as Fol Chen), commissioned by the Annenberg Space for Photography.[7] Goldman's songs have been used in the television shows Weeds (Showtime), CSI:NY (CBS), Elementary (CBS), The Mindy Project (FOX), This American Life (Showtime), The 4400 (USA Network) and One Nation Under Dog (HBO). Goldman's commercial work includes music composed for Visa, Hyundai, and Canon.

Music Production[]

Goldman produced Andrew Bird’s Echolocations: River (2017), which was described by AllMusic as “darkly enchanting” and “a wholly unique experience, fusing ambient improvisations with chamber music and environmental soundscapes.”[8] He co-wrote and co-produced Silver Silver (2012), an album by Simone White, released on Damon Albarn’s Honest Jon’s imprint.[9]

Under his Fol Chen pseudonym Samuel Bing, Goldman remixed Junior Vasquez’s “Insecurities” for release on the Tommy Boy label in 2009.[10] That same year, he produced a cover of Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones” for Spin magazine’s Purplish Rain tribute album. He teamed up with KCRW disc jockey Eric J. Lawrence to remix David Bowie’s “Golden Years” as part of a deluxe reissue of Bowie’s Station To Station album.[11]

Art[]

For the 2017 Dunedin Fringe Festival in New Zealand, Goldman organized Anything Could Happen with key figures from the Dunedin Sound music scene including Roy Colbert of Records Records, Alastair Galbraith, and members of Straitjacket Fits, The Chills, Look Blue Go Purple, The Verlaines, and The Bats.[12][13] He has collaborated with Machine Project on performances and projects at the Walker Art Center,[14] LACMA,[15] Colgate University. In 2011, Goldman and Fol Chen collaborated with Monome on "a crazy motion-sensitive musical pyramid" sound toy called The Tetrafol.[16]

Goldman studied film at California Institute of the Arts.[17] His 1998 documentary The Mark Twain Company, which examined the estate of Samuel L. Clemens, screened at MoMA, Los Angeles Filmforum, and Other Cinema in San Francisco. The film was described as “a fascinating and revealing portrait of the insidious workings of capitalist enterprise.”[18]

Discography[]

Fol Chen

Bedroom Walls

  • All Good Dreamers Pass This Way (2006)
  • I Saw You Coming Back To Me (2003)

References[]

  1. ^ "Elusive Fol Chen Offers Dark, Whimsical Debut". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  2. ^ "discosalt » LIARS: SCISSOR". Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  3. ^ "KCRW DJs Remix Golden Years by David Bowie". KCRW. 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  4. ^ "Adam Samuel Goldman Scoring CBS' 'The Code' | Film Music Reporter". Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  5. ^ "Adam Samuel Goldman Scoring CBS' 'The Code' | Film Music Reporter". Retrieved 2019-04-08.
  6. ^ "Adam Samuel Goldman". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  7. ^ "documentary: Beauty CULTure // Lauren Greenfield - instituteartist.com". www.instituteartist.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  8. ^ "Echolocations: River - Andrew Bird | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  9. ^ "Silver Silver". tapeop.com. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  10. ^ "Insecurities, V2.0 - Maxi J., Junior Vasquez | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  11. ^ "KCRW DJs Remix Golden Years by David Bowie". KCRW. 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  12. ^ "Sound education". Otago Daily Times Online News. 2017-02-20. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  13. ^ "Anything Could Happen: Strange Echoes of the Dunedin Sound".
  14. ^ Ehrenreich, Ben. "Interview: Samuel Bing of Fol Chen". Bombmagazine.org. BOMB magazine. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
  15. ^ "A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA". Machine Project. 2008-11-15. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  16. ^ Watercutter, Angela (2011-11-21). "The Tetrafol Is a Crazy, Motion-Sensitive Musical Pyramid From Fol Chen". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2019-08-15.
  17. ^ Fusilli, Jim. "Fol Chen Reveals Its Faces". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 February 2016.[verification needed]
  18. ^ Willis, Holly (May 14, 1999). "The Mark Twain Company and The Target Shoots First". LA Weekly.
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