Benjamin Wynn is an Emmy Award winning American composer, sound designer and music producer. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the California Institute of the Arts, and has released numerous albums under the name “Deru”, as well as scored television, film, and dance.
Wynn (as Deru) 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. The score combines electronics with a 10-part choir and string quartet, and was featured in the 2009 documentary, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet.
In addition to his scoring work, Wynn is a founding member and Creative Director of The Echo Society, a Los Angeles based composer collective and non-profit organization that premiers new orchestral works in singular, one-night-only events. In 2023, the collective scored Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Postcard From Earth’ for the Las Vegas Sphere.
Wynn was also the co-owner and founder of a music and sound design company in Los Angeles called The Track Team along with Jeremy Zuckerman. Together they worked on numerous projects, including “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Legend of Korra” for Nickelodeon. They won an Emmy Award for music editing for “Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness” in 2012, and another Emmy for the same project in 2015.
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