It’s been great working with the crews at SyFy and Mission Control Media to come up with the signature sounds for their newest show. Check it out on Tuesday nights @ 10.

Liberia by dkaufman

A collaboration with producer/photographer Matt Powell for a video bio project set in Liberia. We were trying to blend a minimalist African sound with atmospheric Western harmonies and electronic elements.

This is one of my favorite scores from this year; hand-built synths, acoustic toy museum, and lots of experimentation.

Elegant but punchy jazz trio with some Mojo horn flavor.

Filet Mignon

Improv piano with string trio, toy drum, xylophone and clarinet layered in.

Piano Sketch

I don’t think this one’s quite on par with the first one, but still fun. I love his all-caps “NO” response.

………………………..

smith micheal:

“please, if your item’s still for sale, please get back to me
immediately with the condition…..”

me:

“It’s in beautiful condition; possibly as beautiful as the reply I’m about to receive. Can’t wait”

smith micheal:

“Thank  you, but can you ship? because am out of town and am buying
this item’s for my son which i will pay you via PayPal. because
am one of PayPal workers, and will want to use this opportunity
to prove our self again as good money transfer that is why PayPal send me
to buy something from craigslist. to tell our people that we are now
secure than the past. so if you have PayPal email account so you can send
it to me so that the payment will secure for both of us and if you
don’t have PayPal email acct i can use this opportunity to advertise
our work ,you can easily go to WWW.PayPal.com and create an account
with us and get back to me as soon as possible

PayPal Inc.
2211 North First Street
San Jose CA 95131
US”

me:

“So glad to see that PayPal’s corporate “Grammar Awareness Program” payed off. Was it a rewarding experience for you? I wish I could be grammatically aware. Now I feel kind of sad. I wish you wouldn’t make me feel sad, Smith Micheal. Oh well, I’d still like to ship it. That sounds exciting. I’m so confused by these modern computer things though. Could I just give you a bunch of my finance sites’ login info and let you handle it? Thanks so much!!”

smith micheal:

“NO”

me:

“Yeah, that might be kind of hard.

You know what? I think you should try to make a career in Contemporary Christian Music. You might want to add a “W” to your name somewhere though.

Do you still want the camera? It’s a Contemporary Christian Camera.”

………………………

And alas, that’s all I could get out of him. I probably need to bait them a bit more.

I posted a craigslist ad for my camera and immediately started getting scam/phishing replies, so I decided to e-mail a few of them back and see how long I could keep a ridiculous conversation going. Enjoy.

………………….

dickey frank:

“is the item still available for sale?”

me:

“Yes, it’s still available.”

dickey frank:

“Good to hear back from you I’m in San Diego right now but I’ll be leaving for London for a soccer coaching job in a 2days  time.I want to buy this item for my son that is studying photography at a university in africa. .I’ll have to add $100 for you to send the item to him as soon as possible through the USPS express mail international(ems)..I’ll be paying you through paypal as soon as you make your decision i will pay you $500 for the item and shipments fee; it’s secure and protects two parties in a transaction. Get back with the following information so that your payment will be delivered as soon as possible.
Full Name:
Full Contact Address:
PayPal Email Address;
All this information should be provided correctly please to avoid wrong payment. I will forward my son’s residential address to you for shipping as soon as the payment reaches you. I will be very grateful to hear from you soon.
Best Regard”

me:

“Your story makes perfect sense. This camera was actually made for world-travelling soccer coach’s sons, although I found it useful as well. Could you pay in pennies? I love pennies.”

dickey frank:

“okay thanks for the mail kindly give me your pay pal email address so that i can pay you up.”

me:

“Okay, but only with transactions of $.01 each. Or maybe you could pay entirely in 1 cent checks…that would be awesome. I would probably frame the checks. You’d be famous, Dickey. Famous.”

dickey frank:

“kindly give me your pay pal email address”.

me

“Don’t you think “paypal” is kind of a weird word? Have you ever thought about it? I think about it a lot. I also think you should change your name. How about Fricky Dank…or maybe Franky Dick? Actually, now that I think about it don’t do that.”

He didn’t respond after that.

Last year I started listening to some experimental electronica coming out of the UK, and I got a spark to do a project of my own. Well, it’s finally finished, and you can check it out on Amazon, iTunes, and pretty soon a bunch of other outlets. Some links are below – if you’re into electronic music, check it out!

iTunes

Amazon

homepage

Oh, and if you like what you hear, leave me a review!!

Check out this score with vocals recorded in an African village…great voice.

Download Hallelujah