Chris Julian

Chris Julian is an award-winning American producer, engineer, composer and foley artist, born November 12, 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. After musical education at the Syracuse University and being musician in the end 1970's band "The Feds" (vocals, keyboards, guitar and bass), he opens the NYC-based Calliope Studios in 1984. Throughout the 1980's, the Calliope Studios gain attention to be one of the most active recording studios of the uprising East Coast Rap scene. In his studios, he is one of the first, using sampling and digital technologies. The breakthrough is the gold-winning Three Feet High and Rising-album by De La Soul. The artists, which are engineered at the Calliope Studios include Queen Latifah, Stetsasonic, Deee-Lite, A Tribe Called Quest and Monie Love amongst others. In the time period until 1994, Chris got involved in productions also with well-known artist from other genres, e.g. David Bowie, Jimmy Webb, Art Garfunkel or Chaka Khan. By a collaboration with Stetsasonic's Daddy-O, they produced a jingle for Converse. This was the birth of the jingle career of Chris Julian and the start of his jingle production company BANG. In 1994, Chris decides to close down Calliope Studios and at the same time, he decides to move from New York to California. In California, he first again performs as music engineer, mostly connected with Three Palms Studios, Treefort Studios and Errigal Studios, California, all of them located in Malibu, CA. Here, he also started to work on music for movies, later specialized on being producer of foley sounds for movies. In 2006, Chris Julian won his first personal Emmy-award for best sound in the movie "Flight93". Additionally to his personal Emmy, he is foley artist on another 10 Emmy-winning movies. His sounds are part in more than 120 movies so far. Chris Julian always had a preference in innovation, showing up in innovative studio techniques in the 1980's, but he also works on own inventions (Cell phone accessory) and was public speaker in this topic (MIMICON convention). Chris Julian also stands for gender and race equality, as he co-produced a pilot of a series dealing with this subject in 2018.