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David
Slusser was born in Akron, Ohio in 1952. He began playing tenor
saxophone at age 10, around the same time he started experimenting
with reel to reel tape recorders. Getting his first film sound job
in 1975, he continued his career with a move to the San Francisco
Bay area in 1977, where he joined Lucasfilm in 1984, and received
an Emmy award for sound editing in 1993. He has worked often as
a music editor for directors Francis Coppola, George Lucas and David
Lynch, with whom he has co-composed music for his films. On his
own he has composed for documentaries and public radio, as well
as his jazz group Rubber City. His sound design is in the collections
of both the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contempory
Art in Los Angeles, though far more people have heard it in some
of the more imaginative commercials on television. He began an association
with John Zorn in the mid eighties. Received two prizes in the 1999
Julius Hemphill Composition Awards, including first for jazz orchestra.
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