- Ben Burtt
Ben Burtt (born July 12, 1948 in Syracuse, New York) is the archetypal sound designer (a term he invented) and sound editor for many famous and noteworthy films, as well as directing an Oscar-nominated documentary. - Walter Murch
Walter Scott Murch (born July 12, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning film editor/sound mixer. He went to The Collegiate School, a private preparatory school in Manhattan, from 1949 to 1961. He then attended Johns Hopkins University from 1961 to 1965, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in Liberal Arts. While at Hopkins, he met future director/screenwriter Matthew Robbins and cinematographer Caleb Deschanel, with whom he staged a number of happenings. - Rob Papen
Rob Papen was born at October 8 1964. At the age of 15 he started with the Korg MS-20 synthesizer and a SQ-10 sequencer. On these machines he learned how to program synthesizers and they inspired him to compose music. He did study also electronic organ and loves Bach. Through groups like Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and artist like Jean Michel Jarre, Giorgio Moroder, Vangelis and Klaus Schulze he started making electronic music, also at the age of 15. - Alan Splet
Alan Splet (1939-1995) was an Academy Award winning sound designer and sound editor. He worked on numerous film projects throughout his career, including Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet and The Black Stallion for which he won the Oscar. He had a fruitful and lasting working relationship with the director David Lynch whom he worked with on many films. - Blake Leyh
Blake Leyh (born in Syracuse, New York in 1962) is a composer, sound designer, and music supervisor. Leyh's prominent credits include music supervising HBO's television show "The Wire", composing original scores for the films of Kirby Dick (including the Oscar-nominated "Twist of Faith" and "SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist") and sound design for the films of Julie Taymor, Ang Lee, Spike Lee, John Waters, and James Cameron. - Erik Aadahl
Erik A. Aadahl (born September 16, 1976 in San Francisco) is an American television series editor of Scandinavian descent. Aadahl studied film at Yale and Stanford Universities and he took a full Trustee scholarship to USC's School of Cinematic Arts as a film production major, where he went on to supervise the Spielberg Scoring Stage. He graduated in 1998, and became the Editor Guild's youngest new member. - Akira Yamaoka
Akira Yamaoka (山岡 晃 "Yamaoka Akira", born February 6 1968 in Niigata, Japan) is a musician and video game composer, having scored dozens of titles released by Konami. Yamaoka attended Tokyo Art College, where he studied product design and interior design. He joined Konami on September 21, 1993, after previously being a freelance music composer. - Paul Groothuis
Paul Groothuis is an award-winning sound designer who has had a long and prolific career on the London stage. Groothuis was born in Holland and moved to the UK in 1979 to study Stage Management at the Central School of Speech and Drama. He joined the National Theatre on the South Bank in 1984 and has designed sound for more than 120 productions at the NT. Some of his recent productions are "Rafta, Rafta...", "The Man of Mode", "The Life of Galileo", … - Phil Ramone
Phil Ramone is a violinist, composer, recording engineer, and innovative record producer born in 1941. As a young child in South Africa, Ramone was a musical prodigy, beginning to play the violin at age three and performing for Queen Elizabeth II at age ten. In the late 1940s he trained as a classical violinist at The Juilliard School, where one of his classmates was Phil Woods. In 1961 he established an independent recording studio A&R Recording. - Mark Knight
Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight (born January 8, 1973, in Brighton, England) is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician and video game composer/sound designer. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktros for the Fairlight group among others. As a game musician, he converted several existing game tunes to the Amiga, … - John Gromada
John Gromada (b.1964) is a prolific, award-winning composer and sound designer. He is best known for his many scores for theatrical productions in New York on and off-Broadway and in regional theatres. Broadway plays he has scored include David Auburn's "Proof", Lisa Kron's "Well", "Rabbit Hole", and "A Few Good Men" ; revivals of "Prelude to a Kiss", "Summer and Smoke", … - Douglas Shearer
Douglas G. Shearer (November 17, 1899 - January 5, 1971) was a Canadian-born pioneer sound designer and director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. Shearer was born in Montreal, Quebec to a prominent upper class family, but his family fell on hard times after his father's business failed, which ultimately led to his parents' separation. Douglas remained with his father in Montreal while his two younger sisters, … - Tim Larkin
Tim Larkin is the audio director for Cyan Worlds, a software company that produced the Myst series of computer games. While working at Cyan, Tim worked as a sound designer for Riven, and as a composer for realMyst, Uru: Ages Beyond Myst and Myst V: End of Ages. He has twelve years experience in the game audio industry. He started in the game industry working as a composer/sound designer for Broderbund. - Clint Bajakian
Clint Bajakian is an American video game soundtrack composer. He worked for LucasArts until 2000 when he formed his own sound production company, C.B. Studios. He has worked on several classic LucasArts games, where he gained much of his fame. Recently, he has ventured into working with other publishers as well as writing the score for a short film, The Upgrade. - Brian Emrich
Brian Emrich is a sound designer, composer, and musician. His sound design credits include the films "π", "Requiem for a Dream", "One Hour Photo" and "Phone Booth". He records music under the moniker Psilonaut, and has collaborated with Foetus and Congo Norvell. - Bill Milbrodt
Bill Milbrodt is a composer and creator of the "Car Music Project", a band that plays music on instruments made from car parts. The instruments have names like "exhaustaphone", "tank bass", "doorimba", "tube flute", and "percarsion". The band plays music that is written by Milbrodt and also does unique improvising in which the written music is played by some members of the band while other members improvise, sometimes several at one time. - Michael Stearns
Michael Stearns (born in 1948), is a pioneering American ambient musician, but also a film composer, sound designer and soundtrack producer for large format films, theatrical films, documentaries, commercials and themed attractions. - Van Ling
Van Ling is a producer and creator of DVD menus for many popular movies, including the "Star Wars" DVDs. - Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Brakhage was born as Robert Sanders in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Three weeks after his birth, he was adopted by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage, and he was given the name James Stanley Brakhage. As a child, he appeared on radio as a boy soprano before going to high school in Denver, … - Bub Asman
Bub Asman is an Academy Award-winning film editor and sound effects editor. He and his colleagues on "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006) won the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing, and were nominated the same year for "Flags of Our Fathers". He was born August 17, 1949, in Louisville, Kentucky, brother of cinematographer William L. Asman and sound designer John Asman, … - Hitoshi Sakimoto
is a video game music composer. He was born in 1969 and worked freelance beginning in 1990. When he was just starting out in the field of music, he would write his name as "YmoH.S". He used this signature when he was about 22-23 years old because to avoid other company steal talented artist.. In 1997, Sakimoto joined Square Co., Ltd.. Later on, in 2000, after completing his work on the action/RPG hybrid title "Vagrant Story", … - Andrei Toncu
Andrei "Otto" Toncu (April 8 1978 Bucharest - August 25 2006 Bucharest) was a Romanian sound designer. - Joakim Sundström
Joakim Sundström is a swedish sound editor, sound designer and musician. He was born in the Baltic city of Gävle in the north east of Sweden and was brought up in Buchanan, Liberia on the West African Atlantic coast. He currently lives and works in London, England where he is married to British painter Dee Ferris. He collaborates regularly with british director Michael Winterbottom; 24 Hour Party People (2002), In This World (2002), Code 46 (2003), 9 Songs (2004), … - Philip Brophy
Philip Brophy, born in Reservoir, Melbourne 1959 is an Australian musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, writer, graphic designer, educator and academic. - Henning Lohner
Henning Lohner (born 17 July 1961) is a German born film score composer. He is a member of the "Remote Control Productions" (formerly known as "Media Ventures") scoring team. He was raised in California and returned to Germany to study musicology, art history and romantic languages at Frankfurt University, from he which he graduated in 1987. He became composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's assistant in 1985, who introduced him to film composition. - Fabian del Priore
Fabian Del Priore (* 27th of May, 1978 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany) is a composer, arranger and sound designer. He has dedicated his entire life to the world of music, for example he started composing on the Commodore C64 home computer, collected synthesizers since he was very young and took private piano lessons for over ten years. Also, he has become an established and critically acclaimed tracker musician under the nickname of "Rapture". - Tsuyoshi Sekito
is a Japanese video game music composer, arranger and performer. He joined Square Enix in 1995. Before working at Square Enix, he worked for Konami and worked on several games created by Hideo Kojima. After joining Square Enix, he did not score any games until 1998. "Brave Fencer Musashi" was his first assignment for Square Enix. In 2001, his first assignment for the Final Fantasy series was to rescore "Final Fantasy II" for the Wonderswan Color. - Hidenori Iwasaki
Hidenori Iwasaki is a Japanese video game music composer currently working at Square Enix. He first worked as a synthesizer programmer before becoming a composer. His first work as a solo composer is "Front Mission 4". He was also part of the band "The Star Onions". - Michael McCann
Michael McCann (also known as Behavior) is a composer, sound-designer and record producer based in Montreal, Canada. He is most recently known for composing the soundtrack to "Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent" for the Xbox 360, PC, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube and Wii. Past projects also include being lead Sound Designer and Music Editor for the films of Michael Dowse including "It's All Gone Pete Tong" and "FUBAR". - Dody Dorn
Dody Dorn born 20 April 1955 (sometimes credited as Dody J. Dorn) is an Academy Award nominated American film and sound editor best known for working with director Christopher Nolan on several films including the post-modern, deconstructionist masterpiece about amnesia, "Memento". - David Kristian
David Kristian is a Canadian musician and film score composer. Kristian's soundtrack work can be heard on a variety of projects including Anime and web commercials by Macromedia Flash animation innovator Ryosuke Aoike. He has also contributed to the short films of Mitch Davis and several feature films, such as Karim Hussain's "Subconscious Cruelty", "Ascension" "La Belle Bête", Francois Miron's "The 4th Life", … - David Kneupper
David Kneupper (1959 -) is an award-winning composer and sound designer currently living in Los Angeles, specializing in original music for museums, theme parks, film and the concert stage. He's the recipient of numerous commissions and awards for creative excellence. His "Passacaglia and Fugue Rondo" received its Carnegie Hall debut in 1993. - Kevin Manthei
Kevin Manthei is a composer who writes music for film, television, and video games. Some of the more notable things he has worked on are the television shows Invader Zim and Xiaolin Showdown, the video game Ultimate Spider-Man, and the films Scream 2 and Scream 3. - Harry Snodgrass
Harry Snodgrass is a Supervisor sound editor, Sound Designer and Sound editor for film and television. Some of the films he has worked on are "Alien³", "Predator 2", "Robin Hood - Men in Tights", "American Pie", and "Napoleon Dynamite". He has been nominated for an Emmy Award for Sound four times. The character Atimus Snodgrass in the film "Sasquatch Dumpling Gang" was named because of the relationship he has with the filmmakers. - Paul Weir
Paul Weir is a British composer, sound designer and director with almost ten years experience working in video games as well as other media. Recent game projects include "Crime Life: Gang Wars", "Rogue Ops" and "Ghost Master". Weir has also worked extensively in theatre including writing the music for "Little Women" and "Anne of Green Gables", both of which played in the West End (London) in 2004. - Ollie Olsen
Ollie Olsen (born 1958, Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian composer, synthesist and sound designer who has been producing and performing rock, electronic and experimental music for the past thirty years. He is probably best known in the mainstream for his collaboration with Michael Hutchence, Max Q in 1989. - Pekka Karjalainen
Pekka Karjalainen is a Finnish film director and sound producer. He gained worldwide fame by producing the movie "Hysteria". It won the Grand Prix at the Stockholm International Film Festival in 1993 and was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category in 1994. - Suzanne Goldish
Suzanne Goldish, sometimes credited as Suzy Goldish, is an American voice actress, who works on the properties of 4Kids Entertainment. She is also an ADR engineer for the Pokémon TV series. She has gained extensive experience and honed her kids' entertainment chops through years in Sesame Workshop's Interactive Technologies group, as well as the Educate Products/"Hooked on Phonics" Product Development group in New York City. - James Genn
James Douglas Genn is a filmmaker, writer and director, born in Vancouver, B.C. in 1972. He is the son of Canadian artist Robert Genn, the brother of musician Dave Genn, and is the twin brother to artist and musician Sara Genn. His work includes the Genie Award nominated short film "The Dog Walker", produced at the Canadian Film Centre in Toronto, Canada, where he completed a director's residency in 2003. His well-received work has screened at festivals around the world, … - Shane Carruth
Shane Carruth (born 1972 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) is an American film writer, director, producer and actor. Carruth performed all those roles in his independent film "Primer", which was honored at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival with the Grand Jury Prize. Carruth, a former engineer with a degree in mathematics, utilized his technical knowledge on the project.
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