He was a sound designer/composer on two films,
Wild South and
Postcards from, Applecross, which he also directed. He has published one novel about music:
Zweck. His second novel,
Champion, was set in France and Germany in the 1930s was published in July 2020. He was editor of
The Soundtrack and
The New Soundtrack journals from 2007-2018. Deutsch was educated initially in the United States (initial training -
Juilliard Preparatory Division; BMus - SMU; MA -
San Francisco State College). In 1971, he and two partners established Synthesiser Music Services, Ltd., an electro-acoustic studio in
London. At
Bournemouth University, he was
Professor of Post-Production. In 1992, he founded the University's PGDip/M.A. in Electro-Acoustic Music for Film and Television (later called Composing for the Screen). He was also Senior Tutor in Screen Composition at the
National Film and Television School. ==References==