Ray Brunelle

Drummer and sound effects designer. He worked and performed with Ben Baldwin And The Big Note, Dan Hicks, Lenny Breau, Dizzy Gillespie and Mose Allison. Ray also played for several years in a jazz trio with pianist Chuck Chaplin and bassist Rick Strong (3), both also Big Note alumni. He owned and operated studio "Rumblestiltskin Sound FX Design". As a sound effect designer, he not only wrote "The Art of Sound Effects" on the history of sound effects for "Experimental Instruments Magazine" and the book "Funny Noises for the Connoisseur", but his sound effects have been used in such films as "Terminator II", "The Abyss," and "Seven", and T.V. cartoons such as "Ren & Stimpy" and "The Simpsons." b.: Mar. 19, 1953 in Laconia, NH d.: Nov. 4, 2017 in New Durham, NH, from complications due to cancer.