Sound designer David Slusser uses the term "sound composition" when referring to his work, to delineate the difference between his approach and that of musical notation compositions. He has also worked as sound designer for the films of Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, and George Lucas -- as well as Terminator 2 and Driving Miss Daisy -- but most of his sound design work has been for television commercials. He has made music in Rubber City, with longtime Tom Waits-collaborator Ralph Carney. He and Carney first played together making free jazz in Akron, OH, in the mid-'70s. S...