Byron Werner

Byron Werner is a visual folk artist retired from 28 years in Hollywood special effects - ink & paint, rotoscope artist, lip sync animator, digital roto, and other. In the 1980s & 1990s he began tape and sampler loop experiments later featured in the catalog of Rural War Room - which he founded with Donavan Suitt in 2005. Also, in the 1980s/90s, Werner is known for reviving the lounge music movement; coining the phrase "Space Age Bachelor Pad Music"; working on the "Death Star Crew" of the first Star Wars film in 1977; and work on other films like the originals Poltergeist, Tron, Willow, Superman IV, Star Trek Nemesis, Stormrider, Titanic, I Robot, and others. Byron Werner now lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. He makes & plays home made instruments, and does turntable experiments/samples in the duo & cyberband Rural War Room, which he co-founded in 2005.