RICHARD BENJAMIN GRANT ______________________________________

    Richard Grant holds a B.A. in Philosophy (UCLA 1967) and a Juris Doctorate (Loyola University 1972). Though he retired from full-time practice as a litigator in early '83 in order to pursue a more creatively rewarding career in software development and design, Mr. Grant is still frequently called upon to sit as a 'rent-a-judge' adjudicating computer software related disputes brought before the American Arbitration Association. Richard and his brother, Ron Grant, have been honored with some of the highest awards in the computer-entertainment industry, each having earned an EMMY (1985) and an Academy Award (1987) for Scientific and Technical Achievement... both 'firsts' for software-based innovations. Stemming from an application first filed in early April 1984, in August 1987 Mr. Grant was issued what has been described in academic literature as the first U.S. Patent for a hardware independent, 'windowed' natural language driven Man-Machine Interface or Operating Environment which can be entirely implemented in software.

    Richard's active affiliations include membership in the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the Society of Composers and Lyricists; and, he regularly participates in the student grant activities of the UCLA Alumni Scholarship Committee. Since concentrating in the computer field, Mr. Grant has conducted courses or seminars at, or made various presentations before: The Central Sciences Lab at Hewlett Packard; the University of California (Spielberg Center Graduate Program in Film Scoring); the Media Laboratory at MIT; BMI and ASCAP film scoring workshops; the 127th Technical Conference of the SMPTE., the American Film Institute; and various other academic colloquia on computers and the arts including instruction as a Fellow at the entertainment industry's prestigious (Robert Redford's) Sundance Institute in Utah.

RON GRANT___________________________________

    Ron Grant is a working composer with over twenty-two (22) years of experience scoring hundreds of film, television, commercial and multimedia projects. Some of his credits include Say Yes, The Kid From Not So Big, multiple episodes of Knots Landing, Dallas, Berringers, Sledge Hammer, Steven Spielberg's Tiny Toon Adventures, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Film Roman's An Animated Classic Showcase, the Mother Goose and Grimm Saturday morning cartoon series, the "Gorlick Sisters" Denny's TV commercial series; and, recently, Digital Pictures' CD-ROM, Story Time, The Fox Network's Casper cartoon series and the new Warner Brother's Ace Ventura cartoon series. In 1983, contributing his knowledge of the film music problem and some special ideas on how to approach it using a computer, Ron got together with his brother, Richard , to design and implement a software solution. The result was Auricle: The Film Composer's Time Processor. For his effort and achievement in this regard, and given The Auricle's wide and deep impact on the film and television arts, Ron was awarded both an EMMY and an Academy Award, each for Outstanding Scientific and Engineering Development. More recently for his work as a film composer, Ron earned both an ANNIE and an EMMY nomination for his work on Casper.

Click on the eighth notes at the left to select from and hear various exemplary
orchestral fragments and themes from Ron's film score library.

    Ron's active affiliations include memberships in ASCAP, The Society of Composer's and Lyricists (where he sits on the Board of Directors) and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (where he sits as a Governor and holds an active chair on The Music Peer Group Executive Committee). Because of his dual expertise in composition and computer-music technology, Ron has lectured and taught on such subjects at the BMI Film Music Workshop; The Sundance Institute; ASCAP's film music workshops; at UCLA in programs involving the use of technology in the arts; and, at the USC's Film School and before the USC Music Department's graduate program in composition for film.

Ron has his own Website (click here)

Ron's agent is the Gorfain-Schwartz Agency in Los Angeles (818-461-9600).

       

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