Vann K. Weller

Background

Vann Weller was born on March 24, 1955, in the United States. He is the son of Don G. Weller.

Education

Vann Weller graduated from Ithaca College as a Bachelor of Science in 1977.

Career

Professional audio engineer Vann Weller, whose nickname is Zaarc, has immersed himself in a number of creative fields, including rock music, video, and, in the 1990s, fiction writing. A 1977 graduate of Ithaca College’s cinema studies program, Weller forged a career for himself as an audio specialist for broadcast television and other media. He was an early user of interactive networks and has extensive experience working with the sound systems for rock groups; in short, he is a fixture on the local “underground” scene in his native southern New Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He is a founder and owner of an audio production and engineering firm First Word Productions. He used to be a manager and operator of an audio services firm Modular Sound in1977-1987. He has worked on sound for local rock bands in southern New Jersey and Pennsylvania including The Gang and Donnamatrix, and for television programs and corporate video projects. Weller worked on digital audio postproduction for the independent feature film The Game, directed by Stefan Avalos in 1994 and for W.P.I. (foreign language audiotext), Princeton, New Jersey. He designed, wired, and operated eight-track recording studio for recreational use of soldiers at Fort Dix Music and Theater Department, New Jersey. Since 1997 he is an audio operator at the Disney-American Broadcasting Company Television Group. And since 2013 Weller is an executive at Doorpost Productions of Trenton.

Vann Weller has authored two novels: urge2merge in 1995 and The Thirteenth Book in 2000. He lives in Trenton, New Jersey.

Achievements

• Vann Weller is a competent professional in audio engineering sphere. He managed to build himself a reputation of a reliable and skillful specialist which led to being involved in his work as an audio operator for the prestigious Disney-American Broadcasting Company Television Group. As a part of the team, he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Live and Direct to Tape Sound Mixing in 1998.

Works

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  • Urge2merge 1955
  • The Thirteenth Book 2000

Connections

Vann Weller married Lucinda M. Tiedemann.

Father:

Don G. Weller

Wife:

Lucinda M. Tiedemann

colleague:

Duane M. Barnhart

References

• Contemporary Authors, Vol. 166 This volume of Contemporary Authors contains biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers.
  1998