Tyler Strickland

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Tyler Strickland
GenresFilm score
Years active2012–present

Tyler Strickland is an Emmy Award Winning film and television composer based in Los Angeles, CA. He is best known for providing the scores for films such as Descendent , John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise, Faye and Chef's Table . He has composed the music for over 80 films and television shows. He won the 2022 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Cat People . [1] He is also an award winning music producer, having received a Dove Award for producing Jon Foreman's solo album.

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Career

Early in his career as a musician, Strickland toured as a multi-instrumentalist for an artist signed to Capitol Records. [2] Strickland posits that sound is "50 percent of everything we experience on a day to day basis… Without the right music, no environment is complete". All pacing in regards to score must stem from the on-screen image. He describes this as only way to assure a score is enhancing the film, as opposed to distracting viewers from it. [3] One of the most important elements in Strickland's workflow is communication with a director—he describes this as potentially one of the most "inspiring and exciting" parts of the scoring process. [4]

Selected filmography

YearTitle
2025 Descendent
2024 Face to Face with Scott Peterson
2024 Faye
2023 Thriller 40
2023 Navajo Police: Class 57
2023 Sly
2023Who Killed Robert Wone?
2022 Edge of the Earth
2022 Make People Better
2021 Cat People
2021Pride
2021John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise
2021The Oxy Kingpins
2020Nasrin
2020 Chef's Table: BBQ
2020Street Food: Latin America
2020 Trial by Media
2019Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
2019Changing the Game
2019Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
2017-2018 Independent Lens
2018Young Men and Fire
2018 Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age
2018Back to Malheur: Two Years Later
2018 Survivors
2018 The American Meme
2017Secret History of Comics
2017 Mankiller
2017A River Below
2017 The Mars Generation
2016 Plastic China
2016 Explorer
2014-2016 P.O.V.
2016 Best and Most Beautiful Things
2016 Audrie & Daisy
2015Overburden
2015 Fresh Dressed
2015 Hot Girls Wanted
2014Tough Love
2013 Schooled: The Price of College Sports
2013 The Genius of Marian

References

  1. Grein, Paul (2022-06-19). "Beyonce Comes Up Short at 2022 Daytime Creative Arts & Lifestyle Emmy Awards". Billboard . Retrieved 2022-07-14.
  2. "Sundance Composer Spotlight: Tyler Strickland". BMI . 2015-01-21. Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  3. Finch, Rob (September 17, 2012). "Columbia River: Composer Tyler Strickland on the music for 'Great River'". OregonLive.com . Retrieved 2017-01-26.
  4. POV Staff (August 17, 2016). "Keeping Score: How Documentary Filmmakers Can Work With Composers". PBS . Archived from the original on August 20, 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-26.