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 Fol Chen is an American electronic band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2009.Staff (undated)"Fol Chen" Asthmatic Kitty Records. Retrieved February 18, 2013. The band is signed to Asthmatic Kitty Records and has released three full-length ...

, which released three albums on

Sufjan Stevens Sufjan Stevens ( ; born July 1, 1975) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He has released nine solo studio albums and multiple collaborative albums with other artists. Stevens has received Grammy and Academy Award nomi ...

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label from 2009 to 2013 and was noted for its "instantly unique blend of dread and whimsy." He was songwriter and singer for

chamber pop Chamber pop (or Chamber rock; also called baroque pop and sometimes conflated with orchestral pop or symphonic pop) is a music genre that combines rock music with the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other compon ...

band Bedroom Walls and touring guitarist for Liars on their 2008 tour opening for Radiohead. Goldman has produced albums for

Andrew Bird Andrew Wegman Bird (born July 11, 1973) is an American indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter. Since 1996, he has released 16 studio albums, as well as several live albums and EPs, spanning various genres including swing musi ...

and

Simone White Simone White (born February 7, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter. Life and career Simone White appeared in the 1984 comedy-drama " The Wild Life" written by Cameron Crowe and directed by Art Linson. Eddie Van Halen and Donn Landee compo ...

, remixed songs by

Junior Vasquez Junior Vasquez (born Donald Gregory Mattern, August 24, 1949) is an American DJ, record producer and remixer. He has been referred to as one of the only DJs of his time to gain international attention. Career Mattern moved to New York City a ...

and

David Bowie David Robert Jones (8 January 194710 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie ( ), was an English singer-songwriter and actor. A leading figure in the music industry, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the ...

, and covered

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for ''Spin'' magazine. He is composer for the CBS primetime drama '' The Code''.

Film and television

In 2019, Goldman began scoring the CBS military-legal drama '' The Code'', created by

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and Craig Turk. He scored the documentary film '' Knock Knock, It's Tig Notaro'' for

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and co-wrote the score to

Patrik-Ian Polk Patrik-Ian Polk (born July 29, 1973 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. Polk, who is gay, is noted for his films and theatre work that explore the experiences and stories of African-American LGBT pe ...

's feature film ''Noah's'' ''Arc: Jumping the Broom'', as well as providing songs for the '' Noah’s Arc'' television series on

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. He has twice scored nonfiction projects for director

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, including ''Beauty CULTure'' (co-written with

Julian Wass Julian Wass (born November 10, 1981) is an American television writer, director, film composer, producer, and electronic musician from Los Angeles, California. He is the son of actors Janet Margolin and Ted Wass. Music for films Julian Wass firs ...

as Fol Chen), commissioned by the Annenberg Space for Photography. Goldman's songs have been used in the television shows '' Weeds'' (Showtime), '' CSI:NY'' (CBS), ''

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'' (CBS), ''

The Mindy Project ''The Mindy Project'' is an American romantic comedy television series created by and starring Mindy Kaling that began airing on Fox in September 2012 and finished its run of six seasons on Hulu in November 2017. The series was co-produced by Uni ...

'' (FOX), ''

This American Life ''This American Life'' (''TAL'') is an American monthly hour-long radio program produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass. It is broadcast on numerous public radio stations in the United States and internatio ...

'' (Showtime), ''

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'' (USA Network) and ''One Nation Under Dog'' (HBO). Goldman's commercial work includes music composed for

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, and

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Music Production

Goldman produced

’s '' Echolocations: River'' (2017), which was described by

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as “darkly enchanting” and “a wholly unique experience, fusing ambient improvisations with chamber music and environmental soundscapes.” He co-wrote and co-produced ''Silver Silver'' (2012), an album by

, released on

Damon Albarn Damon Albarn (; born 23 March 1968) is an English-Icelandic musician, singer-songwriter and composer, best known as the frontman and primary lyricist of the rock band Blur and as the co-creator and primary musical contributor of the virtual ...

’s Honest Jon’s imprint. Under his

pseudonym Samuel Bing, Goldman remixed Junior Vasquez’s “Insecurities” for release on the

Tommy Boy ''Tommy Boy'' is a 1995 American buddy adventure comedy film directed by Peter Segal, written by Bonnie and Terry Turner, produced by Lorne Michaels, and starring former ''Saturday Night Live'' castmates and close friends Chris Farley and David ...

label in 2009. That same year, he produced a cover of Prince’s “

The Beautiful Ones "The Beautiful Ones" is the third track on Prince and the Revolution's soundtrack album '' Purple Rain''. It was one of three songs produced, arranged, composed, and performed by Prince, the other two being "When Doves Cry" and "Darling Nikki". ...

” for ''Spin'' magazine’s ''

Purplish Rain ''Purplish Rain'' is a compilation of Prince covers released by ''Spin'' magazine for readers of its July 2009 issue. The album contains cover versions of songs from Prince's 1984 '' Purple Rain'' album, in the same track order as the original, ...

'' tribute album. He teamed up with

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disc jockey Eric J. Lawrence to remix David Bowie’s “ Golden Years” as part of a deluxe reissue of Bowie’s ''

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'' album.

Art

For the 2017 Dunedin Fringe Festival in New Zealand, Goldman organized ''Anything Could Happen'' with key figures from the

Dunedin Sound The Dunedin sound was a style of indie pop music created in the southern New Zealand university city of Dunedin in the early 1980s. Characteristics According to Matthew Bannister, Dunedin sound "was typically marked by the use of droning or j ...

music scene including Roy Colbert of Records Records, Alastair Galbraith, and members of

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, Look Blue Go Purple, The Verlaines, and The Bats. He has collaborated with

Machine Project Machine Project was a Los Angeles based not-for-profit arts organization and community event space. History Founded by Mark Allen, Machine Project launched in 2003 with its inaugural show, ‘Tom Jennings - Story Teller,’ an installation produ ...

on performances and projects at the

Walker Art Center The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The Walker is one of the most-visited modern and contemporary art museums in the United States and, to ...

LACMA The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles. LACMA is on Museum Row, adjacent to the La Brea Tar Pits (George C. Page Museum). LACMA was founded in 19 ...

, Colgate University. In 2011, Goldman and Fol Chen collaborated with

Monome Monome is an Upstate New York-based company, founded by Brian Crabtree and Kelli Cain, that produces sound modules and MIDI controllers. Monome is also the name of their initial product, a grid-based controller that is now sometimes simply refer ...

on "a crazy motion-sensitive musical pyramid" sound toy called The Tetrafol. Goldman studied film at

California Institute of the Arts The California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is a private art university in Santa Clarita, California. It was incorporated in 1961 as the first degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of bo ...

. His 1998 documentary ''The Mark Twain Company'', which examined the estate of Samuel L. Clemens, screened at

MoMA Moma may refer to: People * Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist * Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician * Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher Places ; ...

, 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.”

Discography

Fol Chen *''

The False Alarms ''The False Alarms'' is the third studio album by American electro-pop group Fol Chen. It was released by Asthmatic Kitty Records on March 19, 2013. Reception At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mai ...

'' (2013) *''Part II: The New December'' (2010) * ''The Holograms'' (EP) * ''In Ruins'' (EP) *'' Part I: John Shade, Your Fortune's Made'' (2009) Bedroom Walls *''All Good Dreamers Pass This Way'' (2006) *''I Saw You Coming Back To Me'' (2003)

References

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