Tyler Strickland

Tyler Strickland
Genres	Film score
Years active	2012-present

Tyler Strickland is an American film and television composer. He is best known for providing the scores for documentaries such as Hot Girls Wanted , Fresh Dressed , Audrie & Daisy and The Mars Generation . He won the 2022 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for Cat People . ^[1]

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

Year	Title
2025	Descendent
2024	Face to Face with Scott Peterson
2024	Faye
2023	Thriller 40
2023	Navajo Police: Class 57
2023	Sly
2023	Who Killed Robert Wone?
2022	Edge of the Earth
2022	Make People Better
2021	Cat People
2021	Pride
2021	John Wayne Gacy: Devil in Disguise
2021	The Oxy Kingpins
2020	Nasrin
2020	Chef's Table: BBQ
2020	Street Food: Latin America
2020	Trial by Media
2019	Torn Apart: Separated at the Border
2019	Changing the Game
2019	Ernie & Joe: Crisis Cops
2017-2018	Independent Lens
2018	Young Men and Fire
2018	Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age
2018	Back to Malheur: Two Years Later
2018	Survivors
2018	The American Meme
2017	Secret History of Comics
2017	Mankiller
2017	A 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
2015	Overburden
2015	Fresh Dressed
2015	Hot Girls Wanted
2014	Tough 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.

External links

• Tyler Strickland at IMDb  
• Tyler Strickland at AllMusic
• Tyler Strickland discography at Discogs