Hayes Greenfield
– Innovative Electro-Acoustic Looping Artist in Live Surround Sound
Always a restless creator, Hayes has sought to push his musical boundaries several times over. Whether in the late 80s with his embrace of the Synclavier, the first, state of the art digital audio workstation and technology available for music and sound production, or by pushing today’s live performance boundaries as he performs, improvises and creates musical journeys in real time that twist and turn 360 degrees in immersive, spatial, surround sound listening bliss.
– Jazz Player
Since the late 1970s, Hayes has been working, living and performing jazz as a sideman or with his own bands in New York City. He has earned awards in all of his endeavors, has released 10 critically acclaimed CD's under his own name, and traveled throughout the US, Canada, and Europe performing at international festivals, concerts, and clubs, leading his own bands. Notable jazz artists Hayes has worked with as leader and / or sideman include: Jaki Byard, Rashied Ali, Paul Bley, Billy Byers, Dave Liebman, Tom Harrell, Ray Drummond, Hiram Bullock, Bob Stewart, Barry Altschul, Tony Scott, Richie Havens, Joe Lee Wilson, Frank Lacey, Jorge Sylvester, Dean Johnson, David Berkman, Bill Ware, Frank Kimbrough, Uri Caine, Victor Jones, Leonard Gaskin, Denis Charles, Roger Rosenberg, and many more.
– Composer
As film composer, Hayes has scored more than 70 films, documentaries, commercials, and TV specials, many of which have received awards, including the prestigious Emmy (George Marshall and the American Century) and two Tellys, (The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams; and William Krisel, Architect). Other notable films Hayes has scored include The American Nurse (2014), the PBS films America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero (2002); Return to Ground Zero (2006); Building Alaska (2010); and Alaska, the World, and Wally Hickel (2013); luminary artists Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Grace Hartigan, James Rosenquist, Jan Groover, and Milton Glaser; architects Philip Johnson, Donald Wexler; and United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins; The Paris Review; The Berlin Airlift, and Russia’s future for the new millennium.
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Ikuo Nakamura (www.hololab.com), an award-winning Japanese filmmaker, is probably the first artist to shoot the Aurora Borealis in stereoscopic 3D format. He is a holography artist, 3D film director, photographer, and sculptor of light. He learned cutting edge holography techniques at the New York Holographic Laboratory after studying physics at Tokyo University of Science and moving to New York in the early 1980s. His experimental multimedia installations include a holographic pattern animation series and a brain wave interactive hologram, "Neuro Hologram." He was awarded an Artist in Residence at the Museum of Holography (1990), Fellowship at Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne, Germany (1998-1999), Scholarship for 7th International Symposium of Holographic Arts, Wales, UK (2006), and many more. He is also former co-director at The Center for Holographic Art (2001-2006). His holography works have been exhibited at The Jewish Museum, New York; The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles; MIT Museum, Cambridge, and many museums worldwide.
His 3D films "Easter Island" and "The View in America" received Best Native 3D Short Film and Director to Watch awards at International 3D Film Festival, Los Angeles (2012). His third film, "Atmosphere," has been screened worldwide and received multiple awards.
"Aurora Borealis 3D," Nakamura's most recent film, was shot during his visits to Yellowknife, NWT, Canada. He captured the aurora in 3D using two synchronized cameras five miles apart. A special preview version of the film, including an environmental landscape, was screened during NASA Sun/Earth Day at American Museum of Natural History in 2014. The completed official version, featuring music by Hayes Greenfield, was shown at the 61st International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Germany on May 2 and also during "3D in the 21st Century" at BAM Rose Theater on May 3, 2015.