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David Louis Zuckerman is an interdisciplinary artist, writer/director and composer. The projects archived on this page collect a range of work across a variety of mediums.

In addition to numerous collaborations with contemporary artists, as video-editor, sound-designer, composer, and videographer, Zuckerman runs a studio in Silverlake, Los Angeles, specializing in scoring and film post-production. For inquiries visit:

studiodavidlouiszuckerman.com

The work archived on this page collects a range of selected projects as composer, director, film editor, actor and visual artist.


Projects

―   Haircut

―   New Theater Review

―   Le Rêve

―   NOO AT YESS

―   Two American Scenes

―   Ei Arakawa-Nash: Paintings Are Popstars

―   3 Music Videos for Synth-Pop Artist Geneva Jacuzzi

―   Untitled Figure

―   Readings, Quiet Mobile Loops, Tea and Fish

―   Wish

―   Penny Soundtrack LP

―   Odette Tape

―   Film Comment Magazine

―   Ostrava Days Festival 2021

―   Hyle String Trio

―   Fissão – Ostrava Days Festival

―   Ismay: Guide To Ismay Vol.1

―   Aplauso: Os Olhos Escutam

―   Full-Contact Minimalism

―   Penny Film

―   Reading/Non-Reading

―   8 x 8 Composers / Choreographers

―   Bar Bar – Performance

―   Casa de Buonaguro-Foerster

―   Ontopo 2018

―   Magick City Residency

―   How I Pulled Myself Out Of Swamp

―   Capitalist Realism Surinomo

―   Good Samaritans-NYCP

―   Sister-Song Benefit Performance

―   Eyes_1

―   How About A Game

―   Cologne Of The Maghreb

―   Really

―   S.E.M. Ensemble, Emerging Concert

―   The Evening-NYCP

―   The Augur-Untitled Radio

―   Jiro, Digital Painting-Musical

―   Cordelia Film

―   The Harmers LA


Bio

David Louis Zuckerman is a composer, multi-media artist, writer and director. Before moving to Los Angeles, Zuckerman toured internationally with renowned American playwright Richard Maxwell’s theater company NYCP and was a critic at Film Comment magazine writing about contemporary cinema. Zuckerman is an alumnus of the Skowhegan Residency, the Labyrinth Theater Ensemble and the S.E.M. Emerging Composers Workshop. His work has shown at David Lewis Gallery, JOAN Los Angeles, New Theater Hollywood, Anthology Film Archives, Kunstverein Cologne, Hyle Athens, Candice Madey Gallery, and numerous other venues. He has been a frequent collaborator of many contemporary artists and performers. Zuckerman studied film scoring at Berklee College of Music and holds a BFA from The School of Visual Arts in Video Art and an MFA in Film/Video from Bard College. Work and collaborations have been covered in Art in America, LA Weekly, Artforum, Cahiers du Cinema, Purple Magazine, Hyperallergic, and The New York Times. Get in touch.

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Penny Soundtrack LP

Penny Soundtrack LP
Released by Daksina Records
February 2nd, 2024
DAK018
CINE3
Limited to 100 LPs

Penny is a feature documentary directed by Maya Hardinge. It follows the life of Penny from a teenager living in Uckfield (UK) to Germany and overland by truck in the 1970’s through Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and full circle years later back to her hometown. The soundtrack, like the film, is a collage, composed of sounds and events depicting Penny’s journey. While the recently released cassette on Woodfordhalse foregrounds Penny’s voice by incorporating generous amounts of dialogue into the music, this LP offers a companion piece that presents Penny from a completely different perspective, focusing entirely on the music, as composed by Maya Hardinge and David Louis Zuckerman.
The album is orchestrated as a pastiche of short vignettes that shift effortlessly between whimsy and darkness, much in the spirit of the great new wave Czech Cinema soundtracks such as Valarie And Her Week Of Wonders, and Daisies. These compositions convey an emotional pallete that tells penny’s story in a manner that lies beyond words. Album comes with full color insert.
https://www.discogs.com/label/1718329-Daksina?srsltid=AfmBOoqT4MJ37Mb4gvAJIsmJcdu9kRyI755wyJwVeWzLQRLADS_SocMv