Music composer for film, tv and video games

ABOUT TAYLOR

Taylor Ambrosio Wood is a video game composer and designer based in the Pacific Northwest. Taylor started her music career when she was 9 years old playing the Zimbabwean marimba and mbira (a traditional Shona thumb piano). She continued to pursue her passion for music by studying percussion and composition at The Boston Conservatory of Music. Taylor then completed her M.M. in Scoring for Film, Television, and Video Games at The Berklee College of Music in Valencia, Spain, at age 22, and recorded her thesis at AIR Studios in London.

Taylor has scored numerous video games including “The Window Box”, “Balthazar’s Dream”, “Design Hero”, and composed the main theme for “Witchy Life Story”. She has also released two solo albums “Tomography” and “The Disappearance of Emma Greene”. Currently, she is scoring and developing her horror game “Slackjaw”.

Compositional Profile

Mid-20th century techniques and Zimbabwean music: Cyclical patterns, phasing, percussion, non-western tuning, pitch bending, atonality, polyrhythms, minimalism, soundscapes, non-western music, textural composition, experimental, unusual meters, interactive music, chance music

Romanticism: Narrative sensitivity, lyricism, melody, thematic development, unusual structures, programme music, chromatic harmonies, dramatic dynamic contrasts, and motif fragments and their developments