Electro-Acoustic Musician, Composer, Educator, Activist, and Author
Hayes’ latest recording on Sunnyside Records, Gravity Unplugged, is now available for streaming and downloads at:
Hayes Greenfield’s Gravity Unplugged is an unpredictable and adventurous electro-acoustic journey through standard jazz repertoire and free jazz improvisation. Hayes on alto saxophone and effects leads a highly versatile chord-less trio, featuring Ariel De La Portilla on upright bass and either Chuck Palmer or Todd Turkisher on drums through shifting improvisations, well known tunes and musical exchanges that titillate, challenge and delight the ears.
Published by Routledge Taylor Francis on their Eye On Education Book Series
June 2024
Creative Sound Play is entirely analog and inspires children to collaborate and build community while they develop their active listening and social emotional learning skills, and executive function abilities – inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility.
All the necessary ingredients that help children navigate transition times successfully and prepare them for success in school and in life. As importantly, it helps teachers teach by enabling them to manage their classrooms better, inspire their creativity, and suffer less burnout.
Creative Sound Play LTD, is a play-based method for engaging all children – verbal, non-verbal, and neurodiverse – with simple, common-sense-like sound-making activities– NOT music! Nothing gives children more joy, happiness, and fills them with pure wonderment than making and listening to all kinds of sound.
Partnering with the National Head Start Association since 2021, helping children succeed in school and life!
In 2021, I began partnering with the National Head Start Association and The Academy, their online portal for professional developmental to teach my course Effective Transition Essentials to Head Start coaches, educational and curriculum specialists, and teachers. In addition, I am a regular contributor to their innovative webinar series Tackling Challenging Behaviors with Dr. Deborah Bergeron.
Innovation in Spatial Immersive Music!
Binaural Spatial Immersive Audio
Minimus 3D Arkestra in Quad Surround Sound
With the advent of Eventide guitar effects pedals, loopers, and Max/MSP computer software Hayes has created a unique rig that enables him to push the sonic boundaries of spatial immersive sound and music. As an electro-acoustic musician and multi-instrumentalist Hayes’ solo spatial immersive music can be heard in either a live quad setting with four speakers placed in each corner of a room surrounding the audience, or with earbuds or headphones listening to binaural recordings. Either way, as the music dances, twists and bends around your head in spatial bliss, it puts air in the room, takes on a physical quality, and invites a sense of meditative calm.
Hayes’ first
Sunnyside Recording
Hayes Greenfield & Dean Johnson Lover to You
Hayes’ first release on New York’s legendary jazz label, Sunnyside Records, Lover to You, is the culmination of a decades-long partnership, where saxophone melodies intertwine seamlessly with the deep resonance of bass. This album is not just a collection of songs; it's a testament to the limitless possibilities of musical collaboration.
Additional Work
Hayes Greenfield is the creator of two educational programs: Creative Sound Play, a pioneering play-based approach that engages young children with sound and silence– Pitch, Volume and Duration; and Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz, an award-winning jazz music education program designed for young people and families.
As composer, Hayes has written and recorded countless jazz tunes, a handful of concert pieces, a few songs, and scored more than 70 films, documentaries, commercials, animations, and TV specials.
As an activist, Hayes has produced two award winning short films about children - For the Children and Friends of the Children. In addition he produced and created his award-winning children and family CD Music for a Green Planet, a short animation, and soon to be released supplemental curriculum for grades K to 5 celebrating green sustainable energy.