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Carter Burwell
Origin: November 18th, 1955
Official webpage: http://www.carterburwell.com
He graduated from Harvard College in 1977. While at Harvard he studied animation with Mary Beams and George Griffin, electronic music with Ivan Tcherepnin, and pursued a course of independent study at the MIT Media Lab (then known as the Architecture Machine Group). After graduation he became a teaching assistant in the Harvard Electronic Music Studio.
In 1979 his animated film Help, I'm Being Crushed to Death by a Black Rectangle, won first place at the Jacksonville Film Festival and second place at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.
From 1979 to 1981 Carter worked as Chief Computer Scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, where he wrote software for image processing, lab automation and protein analysis.
From 1982 to 1987 he worked at the New York Institute of Technology where he began as a computer modeler and animator, but ended up as Director of Digital Sound Research. During this time he worked on many computer-animated television spots and films, ultimately contributing models and animation to the Japanese anime Lensman.
During the 1980's Carter pursued a parallel career in music, playing with a number of bands in New York City, particularly The Same, Thick Pigeon, and Radiante. He was also writing music for dance (RAB, which premiered at the Avignon Festival in 1984), theatre (The Myth Project at Naked Angels in 1989) and film (Blood Simple, Psycho III, Raising Arizona).
Since this time he has scored a number of feature films including Miller’s Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Rob Roy, Fargo, Conspiracy Theory, The Spanish Prisoner, Gods and Monsters, Three Kings, The General’s Daughter, Being John Malkovich, Before Night Falls, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Adaptation, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, The Alamo, and Kinsey while teaching and continuing to compose dance, theatre and other work.
www.carterburwell.com
Albums
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Two comments
The Rohir 24 April, 2008 at 23:39
Rating's based on his work on Rob Roy.
maven 5 August, 2006 at 17:26
all i know of his is "Rob Roy", but that's such a great soundtrack on its own, i'd give anything he wrote a good listen
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