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Lon Bender WACKY WORLD OF ROBOTS, WIDGETS, AND GIZMOS
Lon
Bender's creative enthusiasm and commitment to excellence has set the standard
for quality in the sound industry. As a co-founder of the SOUNDELUX ENTERTAINMENT
GROUP, Lon played an integral role in the creation and development of a successful,
diversified family of companies. These companies provide audio products and
services for motion pictures as well as high-tech entertainment venues, audio
books, interactive multimedia, advertising, and so on. At only 18, Lon founded
his own sound company, WALLAWORKS. The team's efforts on Coal Miner's Daughter
garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Sound. This early success fueled
his enthusiasm for building an environment where creative people could flourish.
With this idea in mind, the culture of SEG was born. In 1982, Lon teamed with Wylie Stateman to form SOUNDELUX - a partnership based on shared aspirations for the future of the sound industry. Together, they explored digital applications and proactive systems and applied them towards more creative methods of sound editing. For his work as a supervising sound editor, Lon gained industry-wide recognition through his distinguished awards and achievements.
Lon won the 1995 Academy Award, a British Academy Award and a Golden Reel Award for his efforts on Braveheart.
He also received a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Effects Editing on the Disney animated feature The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Lon's contributions on the films Glory and Last of the Mohicans were recognized with Academy Awards for Best Sound, and his work on Legends of the Fall, Beaches, The Princess Bride and Stand by Me were influential in Academy Award and Golden Reel Award nominations for Best Sound. He was also presented with an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 1994. Lon continues to work with today's most prestigious filmmaking talents and tomorrow's most promising motion picture visionaries!!
Lon Bender WACKY WORLD OF ROBOTS, WIDGETS, AND GIZMOS
Well, I was a "TV junkie" as a kid. I liked how it could virtually transport you to another world, another time. A lot of the shows I watched really played on your imagination in blending different elements, especially sound and visuals. The combinations would define a world far removed from your own...and therefore worth exploring. I also watched a lot of movies.
The role of sound in a film shouldn't be noticeable at all. It has a very esoteric relationship to the narrative of a film. On a closer scale, within the context of a movie, sound parallels the passage of time and events. Getting you in and out of the motion and in and out of the action.
Soundelux Studio C - As recent projects
The Green Mile, Toy Story 2 and American Beauty, have established Signet as
an important music mixing and scoring facility. Signet Soundelux also has
a solid music clientele, including Eric Clapton, Alanis Morissette, Wynton
Marsalis, Phil Collins, Kenny G and Crosby, Stills and Nash.
My first step is dictated by what the film is-not necessarily its genre as much as its individual essence. I first try to understand the essence that is unique to the film. It's the concept of the director and the writer-images to which I'd integrate the sound.
In order for sound to be effective in the storytelling process, you can't have sound be too far ahead or behind the picture. The impact of sound is as subtle as the visual narrative, where everything develops piece by piece. And near the end, the audience thinks-hey, it really all fits together!
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