Sonic Ocean is an audio post-production company offering recording, mixing, sound design and music composition services for radio, television, film and interactive media.
BIO
Christopher Drummond is a recording and mix engineer, music producer, composer, sound designer, violinist and Grammy Award voting member. He has composed and produced original musical scores for radio, televison and film including collaborations with Fulvio Valsangiacomo (Eddie-winning/Oscar-nominated editing team for Gladiator) and Ralph Farris (Grammy-nominated arranger of The Lion King NYC, Roger Daltrey and Depeche Mode). His engineering and production style is influenced by a decade-long mentorship with renowned Grammy nominated, Emmy-winning classical engineer, Edward Kelly, electronic music pioneer and IMAX scoring veteran, Michael Stearns and space-music visionary, Jonn Serrie.
Christopher operates in Washington, DC and Atlanta, GA and is the Technical Director for Robert Aubry Davis’s Millennium of Music, a weekly radio program celebrating the mainstreams of European music for the thousand years preceding the birth of J. S. Bach. Millennium of Music airs on Sirius XM Radio Symphony Hall, XM Public Radio and over 250 National Public Radio affiliates. Christopher has produced feature programming for XM Satellite Radio, National Public Radio and Public Radio International featuring Paul McCartney, Sting, Billy Joel, Jon Anderson, The National Symphony Orchestra, Kiri TeKanawa, Bryn Terfel, Anonymous 4, the Cistertian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz and many others.
Credits
RADIO NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO/XM SATELLITE RADIO MILLENNIUM OF MUSIC TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Weekly one-hour broadcast featuring the mainstreams of European music for the one thousand years before the birth of J.S. Bach. Airs nationally on 250 NPR stations and on XM Vox, XM Public Radio, and XM Classics. XM SATELLITE RADIO PRODUCTION DIRECTOR XM Classics (Classical) Watercolors (Contemporary Jazz) 40's (Forties Decade/Big Band) TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Special Programming Paul McCartney Sting Jon Anderson Billy Joel Junior Marvin Jean-Luc Ponty Jimmy Vaughn Acoustic Alchemy Baz Lehrman TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Feature Programming Grammaphone Editor's Choice with James Jolly Millennium of Music Voce Di Donna with Denyce Graves Messiah Live from Trinity Church in NYC BBC Interviews WRITER/PRODUCER Feature Programming Harmony Square Classical Time Machine Vintage News Feature Classic Film Feature NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO/PERFORMANCE TODAY RECORDING ENGINEER Marlow Classical Guitar Series Featuring: Pepe Romero Carlos Barbosa-Lima David Russel Berta Rojas Ana Vidovic Angel Romero Georgi Vassilev Guy Van Duser Marcos Diaz Dale Kavanagh Troy King Rapahel Padron (et. al.) PUBLIC RADIO INTERNATIONAL POST-PRODUCTION EDITOR American Lessons and Carols: Christmas from the National Cathedral with the National Symphony Orchestra INTERACTIVE MEDIA ALIGHT: A TRANSFORMATIVE MEDITATION VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE (WITH JONN SERRIE) PRODUCER/COMPOSER/ENGINEER (IN DEVELOPMENT) THE SACRED CIRCLE: A SHAMANIC HEALING VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE (WITH ALBERTO ROMAN) PRODUCER/COMPOSER/ENGINEER (IN DEVELOPMENT) ELECTRONIC ARTS: TIGER WOODS GOLF 2012 VOICE/OVER EDITOR/MIXER FILM/TELEVISION “Turkey:The Other Holy Land" - Frank Frost Productions Hallmark Entertainment Documentary (Sound Designer, Sound Design Mixer) “Breaking the Rules”- WHYY Philadelphia PBS Special with Denyce Graves, Patti LaBelle and Take 6 Live at the Mann Center (Recording/Mix Engineer, Post-Production Engineer) “Suspended” with Lindsay Utz - Grand Prize Winner at the prestigious Aurora Experimental Film Festival 2003. (Score Composer, Score Mixer) “Between A Rock and A Stone” Director: Jason Maranncini-ECG Productions - Sponsor’s Award and Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film, 2007 Atlanta Film Festival. (Score Composer, Score Mixer, Sound Designer, Sound Design Mixer) “Once Upon a Daydream” Director: Fulvio Valsangiacomo - Eddie Winning/Oscar Nominated Editor for Gladiator, Hannibal, G.I. Jane, The Apostle. (Score Composer, Score Mixer) “Begin Again” Producer: Ralph Farris - Grammy Nominated Arranger Lion King NYC, Roger Daltrey, Depeche Mode. (Score Composer, Score Mixer) RECORDINGS THE FLYING MYSTICS: A TALE OF TWO RIVERS RECORDING/MIX ENGINEER CHRISTOPHER DRUMMOND: 2 LEAVE THIS WORLD COMPOSER/ENGINEER/PRODUCER FARRA ALLEN: YOU ARE IT! COMPOSER/ENGINEER/CO-PRODUCER KEAVER BRENAI: THE COLOR OF LOVE RECORDING/MIX ENGINEER/CO-PRODUCER BETUL SOYKAN: WAR TO PEACE SELECT VIOLIN WORKS OF FERGUSON, PROKOFIEV, MESSIAEN RECORDING/MIX ENGINEER / EDITOR BETUL SOYKAN: TURINA: THE COMPLETE VIOLIN SONATAS & SELECT VIOLIN WORKS RECORDING/MIX ENGINEER / EDITOR KEAVER BRENAI: LULLABABY MUSIC INSPIRATIONAL CHILDREN'S LULLABY COLLECTION RECORDING ENGINEER/CO-PRODUCER EMIL CHUDNOVSKY: THE GOLDEN AGE MIX ENGINEER / EDITOR JUNIOR MARVIN: WAILIN’ FOR LOVE RECORDING ENGINEER/CO-PRODUCER PAUL SKEVIGNTON: SINFONIA FESTIVA EDITOR HESPERUS: COLONIAL AMERICA RECORDING/MIX ENGINEER GEORGE RITCHIE: J.S. BACH COMPLETE ORGAN WORKS (BOX SET) EDITOR BRAD HUGHLEY: ORGAN PRELUDES, FUGUES & VARIATIONS EDITOR GEORGE RITCHIE: YOUTHFUL BRILLIANCE EDITOR WORLD FOLK MUSIC ASSOCIATION LIVE FROM THE BIRCHMERE RECORDING/MIX ENGINEER Noel "Paul" Stookey Christine Lavin Limeliters Chad Mitchell Trio Brothers Four Tom Paxton Hamilton Camp Bill Danoff Tommy Makem David Mallett (et. al.) UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA JAZZ FESTIVAL RECORDING/FOH ENGINEER Max Roach Jack DeJohnette Eddie Gomez John Ambercrombie Jackie McLean Lester Bowie Charles Mingus Dynasty NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO/PERFORMANCE TODAY PHILLIPS COLLECTION CONCERT SERIES RECORDING ENGINEER Featured artists include: Carmen Balthrop Haskell Small Hesperus Arco Voce Raphael Trio Nadia Shpachenko Irina Nuzova (et.al) CARMEN PRODUCTIONS RECORDING / MIX ENGINEER Arlo Guthrie Denyce Graves Gene Scheer Hesperus Patti Labelle Take 6 Christopher has recorded at venues in Washington, DC including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Cathedral, the Library of Congress, the National Shrine and Bassilica, the Smithsonian, St. Matthew’s Cathedral and many foreign embassies. .
