Robert Margouleff is a Grammy Award-winning engineer, record producer, electronic music pioneer, studio owner, and filmmaker. Along with his partner Malcolm Cecil, he invented the mega-synth known as TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), one of the largest and most advanced analog synthesizers ever built. Margouleff and Cecil associate-produced the four albums that established Stevie Wonder’s classic period—Music Of My Mind, Talking Book, Innervisions, and Fulfillingness’ First Finale—programming new sounds that would transform popular music during the 1970s and beyond. From there, Margouleff produced and engineered for dozens of major artists, including Devo, Billy Preston, The Isley Brothers, Oingo Boingo, Weather Report, and David Sanborn. He was an early adopter of immersive audio, founding Mi Casa Multimedia to deliver surround-sound audio to home theaters for hundreds of feature films, including The Lord Of The Rings, Se7en, and X-Men. Though music was his career, Margouleff began as a filmmaker, producing Ciao! Manhattan with Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick and other denizens of the famed Factory. The film endures as an iconic piece of pop culture. In addition to Shaping Sounds, Margouleff has written for several music industry magazines and is an in-demand public speaker.