1. Benjamin Wynn, known as Deru, is an American composer, sound designer and music producer mostly known for creating the sound design for the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender.
14 Facts About Benjamin Wynn
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Benjamin Wynn has collaborated with composers such as Joby Talbot, Jeremy Zuckerman and The Echo Society.
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In 2007, Benjamin Wynn collaborated with British composer Joby Talbot on the score to Wayne McGregor's ballet, "Genus", based on Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Benjamin Wynn is co-owner of a music and sound design company in Los Angeles called The Track Team.
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Benjamin Wynn was the force behind the sound design for all three seasons of Nickelodeon's hit television show, Avatar: The Last Airbender, which won a Peabody Award in 2008.
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Benjamin Wynn was nominated for a Motion Picture Sound Editor's Golden Reel award in 2009 for his sound design work on Avatar: The Last Airbender.
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Benjamin Wynn started The Track Team with co-founder Jeremy Zuckerman in 2004.
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Benjamin Wynn worked on the sound design for the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender, The Legend of Korra.
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Benjamin Wynn is a founding member and Creative Director of The Echo Society, a Los Angeles-based composer collective and non-profit organization that premieres new orchestral works in singular, one-night only events throughout Los Angeles.
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Benjamin Wynn was a composer and score producer for the film.
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Benjamin Wynn is an electronic music producer under the name "Deru".
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Benjamin Wynn is signed to the label Friends of Friends and has released three albums on Mush Records, Merck Records, and Neo Ouija and many remixes and tracks for compilations for labels like Hometapes, Ghostly International, Hymen Records, 1320 Records, Unseen, and Mille Plateaux.
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Benjamin Wynn released another album, Torn In Two, on October 19,2018.
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Benjamin Wynn composed the music for a digital arts installation by Julie Weitz that was entitled Touch Museum and inspired by the phenomenon known as Autonomous sensory meridian response.