Richard Joseph Vincent Termini (born June 20, 1956,

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, New York) is an American educator, musician, composer, film director, writer and photographer. As a musician Termini played synthesizers and keyboards on several recordings including Type O Negative: ''World Coming Down'',

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: platinum award winning album, ''She's So Unusual'', Patty Smyth: ''Never Enough'', The Fixx: Ink, Ellison Chase: ''Welcome to Tomorrow'', Jing: Jing Machine and others. Termini also produced the

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single featuring future

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members Peter Steele and Josh Silver.

Career

He produced and composed music for

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's Cannes

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-winning film ''

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'' and contributed additional music to Turturro's '' Illuminata'' and appears in the film as a Romani guitarist. Termini also composed, performed and produced the music for the Zack Winestine film 'States of Control'. Termini composed and performed music for Television including the animated ''Kids are Punny'' which included "Camel Dances" featuring the voice of

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. Termini's published photographs include the band Carnivore's first album and several other iconic

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photographs from that period. Termini worked for NewLook magazine in the 1980s and several of his photographs featuring

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and various artists are presented there. Termini composed, produced and performed the music for many of Roman Paska's productions including ''The End of the World'', ''Ghost Sonata'', ''

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in Venice'', '' Yerma'' and ''Arden/Ardennes (As You Like It)''. Termini taught audio and recording arts in New York City's Center for the Media Arts, and was teacher and chairman at the

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. He is the founder and former Director of Digital Media Arts (DMX) NYC. In 2013 the short film The Door, written and directed by Termini won the Art of Brooklyn Film Festival Dark Side Award. Termini continues to compose and perform today.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Termini, Richard 1956 births Living people American people of Italian descent American male singers American cinematographers American rock keyboardists American film score composers American male film score composers Songwriters from New York (state) American rock singers American photographers Singers from Brooklyn Educators from New York City American male songwriters