The Track Team

The Track Team is a duo made up of Jeremy Zuckerman and Benjamin Whynn. They compose the music of Avatar: The Last Airbender. At first, they did commercials and other things of that sort. Benjamin Whynn was a roomate of Avatar co-creator Bryan Konietzko at the time that Konietzko and Michael Dante DiMartino were creating Avatar and the Track Team was beggining its commercial career. That was how the two duos got aquainted. When the creators approached the Track Team to write the music of Avatar, they told them that they wanted a score with a diverse group of instruments. The group of musicians that is used involves the western orchestra blended with a lot of Chinese percussion, a mandolin, occasionaly a Chinese flute, and sometimes a choir. There have been very few times when a que has been fully rejected by the creators. Zuckerman said in an interview that he and Whynn get a lot of freedom. The uncommon understanding is due to the fact that Bryan Konietzko is a composer himself.