Rob Bryanton
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Rob Bryanton is a Canadian author, composer, and sound designer. He lives and works in his home town of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada. He is the author and creator of the book and website, Imagining the Tenth Dimension.
Between 1999 and 2008, Bryanton has been nominated nine times for Canada's Gemini Awards, four times in the category “Best Original Music Score for a Dramatic Series”, and five times for “Best Sound for a Dramatic Program”. In 1993 he received another Gemini Awards nomination for music on the film “Eli's Lesson”, starring Jack Palance. Recent projects to which Bryanton has contributed as a composer and sound mixer include the CTV/WGN Superstation comedy series “Corner Gas”, and two historical mini-series for CBC-TV, “The Englishman's Boy” and “Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story”. Bryanton is also responsible for the theme and underscoring on CBC-TV’s "Canadian Antiques Roadshow".
From 1981 to 1994 Bryanton was music director of the Globe Theatre, Regina, where he gained valuable experience as a composer and sound designer. In 1987 he wrote the songs for a musical satire of the history of the Saskatchewan Legislature, “Prairie Wind”, which was presented before Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh. As a composer for Sesame Park, the Canadian version of Sesame Street, he created the music and songs for over 100 items, some of which have been used in the American version of Sesame Street, and in the customized versions of Sesame Street produced in other countries around the world. From 1988 to 1990 he composed the music and songs for the CTV children's show "Puttnam's Prairie Emporium", which is scheduled to be released on DVD in spring 2008. Along with a team of other composers under his direction, he composed and co-composed the music for all 65 episodes of the television series "Incredible Story Studio", seen in syndication throughout the world, and in the United States on the Discovery Kids channel under the title "Discovery Kids Story Studio". In more recent years Bryanton has also been collaborating with his son Todd Bryanton, and some of their composing projects of note include writing melodies to be sung onscreen by characters in the Terry Gilliam film "Tideland", the comedy series "Corner Gas", the CBC-TV four hour mini-series "The Englishman's Boy", and creation of an orchestral piece which was performed by a sixty piece orchestra before Queen Elizabeth II during her visit to Saskatchewan celebrating that province's centennial in May 2005.
As of July 2006, Bryanton is now also a published author, with a science/philosophy book about the nature of reality, called “Imagining the Tenth Dimension”. Science fiction author Greg Bear (winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards) had this to say about Bryanton’s book: “A fascinating excursion into the multiverse—clear, elegant, personal, and provocative”. The companion website for the book, found at www.tenthdimension.com, has attracted over 2.8 million unique visitors from around the world since its launch in July 2006, and the eleven minute animation explaining the ideas from chapter one of the book continues to be a popularly viewed item on streaming video sites. There are also 26 songs by Bryanton about the nature of reality which are attached to the project, and videos for all of these songs are available on sites such as youtube and revver.
Since 1995, Bryanton has been a co-owner of Talking Dog Studios, fully authorized by Dolby Laboratories for theatrical 5.1 mixing. In 2004 he bought out his partners and became President of the operation, which has a full-time staff of 12 year round, and creates employment for as many as 14 additional engineers during the busy part of the post production year. With three main studios and fourteen ProTools workstations, Talking Dog is one of the largest audio post facilities in Canada. Bryanton is also the current President of the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Association, and is a board member of the Saskatchewan Interactive Media Association.
Rob Bryanton lives in Regina with his wife Gail, and their dog Buddy. Gail and Rob have two sons, Todd and Mark.
External links:
Rob's studio: http://www.talkingdogstudios.com
Rob's book: http://www.tenthdimension.com
Rob's blog: http://www.tenthdimension.com/blog
FAQ for Imagining the Tenth Dimension: http://www.tenthdimension.com/faq
Forum for Imagining the Tenth Dimension: http://www.tenthdimension.com/forum
