JEFFREY
MANABU
LUFKIN
Music Technology/Artist
Relations/Musician/
Producer/Sound Designer
DOB 4/7/83
address
Cynthia Residence Café#403
Setagaya-ku, Taishidou 2-14-4
Tokyo-to 154-0004 Japan
tel +81(0)80-4208-4783
email *************@*****.***
Interests
Music technology, apps, sound design, programming, composition, mixing, live computer music, and art.
Education
B.F.A - California Institute of the Arts (2006 - 2009) Music Technology Program, CalArts, Valencia, California. Recipient of the Roy O. Disney Hall Scholarship.
Professional Development
Smule (San Francisco IT/Music App company) smule.com (April 2014 - November 2019)
-Japan lead for apps Sing!, Magic Piano, and AutoRap, music producer, artist relations, composer, curation, lyric transcription, programming, QA, artist recordings, and licensing. Accomplishments: Sing! And Magic Piano ranked #1 and #2 in Japan iOS music apps. Freelance Producer/Composer/Arranger/Sound-designer (April 1999 - Current)
-Rhizomatiks/ Groundriddim (April 2018 - April 2019) Composer and sound designer for
“Prhythm” game, installation sound design for “Power of Scale” at Mori Art Museum, composition for Adobe cm, and more.
-JKD Tokyo (August 2010 - April 2014) - Composer and sound designer for NIKE iPhone app, cm spots, and more.
-Syn (August 2010 - December 2012) - Composer and arranger for cm spots, arranger for artist Nick Wood, Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran), and Tetsuya Komuro.
-Avex (April 1999 - April 2014) - Producer, composer, and live musician for J-Pop artist Olivia.
MOTION motion-pm.com (October 2011 - April 2014)
Signed in 2011, and released debut album in 2012 as Eli Walks. Album was supported by performances at Fuji Rock, Sonar Music festival, Neutral Nation, and more. Roy O. Disney Hall (June 2008 - May 2009)
Performance hall management, live mixing engineer, recording, and lighting. Skills
Languages
English, Japanese
Programming
Reaktor, Chuck, Processing
Audio Tools, Visual software
Ableton, Bitwig, Logic, Protools, Melodyne, RX, Final Cut, Isadora, Premeire Pro Page 2