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Richard K. Thomas is a professor, sound designer, and composer. He is currently a professor of music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He has composed music for film, television, and video games, and has designed sound for numerous films, including The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit. He has also composed music for the video game series, Halo. Thomas was born in 1953 in Los Angeles, California. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in music from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1975. He then went on to receive his Master of Arts degree in music from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1977. Thomas has been a professor of music at the University of California, Santa Barbara since 1985. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the University of California, San Diego. Thomas has composed music for numerous films, television shows, and video games. He has also designed sound for films such as The Matrix, The Lord of the Rings, and The Hobbit. He has composed music for the video game series, Halo. Thomas has won numerous awards for his work, including the Academy Award for Best Sound Design for The Matrix in 1999. He has also been nominated for several Emmy Awards for his work on television shows such as The West Wing and The X-Files. As of 2021, Richard K. Thomas's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

Popular As Richard Kenneth Thomas
Occupation Professor, Sound Designer, Composer
Age 71 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 27 June 1953
Birthday 27 June
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2017

His explorations in theatre as a type of music evolved largely out of the dozens of productions for which he composed sound scores over his nearly forty-year career as professional composer and sound designer. Thomas is a full professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University, where he has been honored many times including winning the 2017-2018 Purdue Liberal Arts Discovery Excellence Award for Creative Art, being named a Purdue Legacy Artist in 2010, and awarded The George P. Murphy Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2008.

2015

He has explored his theories on theatre as a type of music in a series of original productions that include Choices which was performed at World Stage Design in Taipei, Taiwan, and included as part of the US National Exhibition at the 2015 Prague Quadrennial, Ad Infinitum³, which performed at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial, and subsequently at the 2013 opening of the Qualcom Institute at the University of California, San Diego, and Labcoats on Clouds, which performed at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.

2008

He advocated for sound and composition as full members of the theatre creative team through his long relationship with the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, for which he was made a Fellow and Awarded the Joel E. Rubin Founder's Award in 2008, and awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award for Sound Design.

1988

He published many early articles on theatre sound design and composition in the Theatre Design and Technology Journal dating back to 1988. He has published two books, one a biography of legendary Broadway Sound Designer Abe Jacob, The Designs of Abe Jacob,and Music as a Chariot, for Routledge, a philosophical treatise on theatre as a type of music, specifically, music to which ideas have been attached and conveyed through mimesis.

1970

Richard Kenneth Thomas (aka Zounds, Zounds Productions) is an early practitioner/advocate for theatre sound and composition for live theatre. He began his career at his recording studio, Zounds Productions, which he founded and co-owned with Brad Garton in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Zounds Productions produced among many other bands, legendary punk band Dow Jones and the Industrials.