Dark Cinematic 2022

Short Film Scores and Library Tracks (2022)

Not ALL my music is about murder and death...

Comedy/Dramedy 2022

This is my entry for The Cue Tube's 20021 Fundraiser/Scoring contest. You can see the whole video at:
https://youtu.be/yacdH4F-q9g

Spring (CueTube 2021 Contest)

For practice, I decided to score a scene from the classic Hitchcock film "Vertigo"

At First Sight

excerpt from the score for Rolando Joseph Herrera's short film DROWN

Drown OST

excerpt from the score to Rolando Joseph Herrera's short film LAST NIGHT

Last Night OST

LONG WALK

Long Walk

OST for the short film "Sinnamon Claus" by Rolando J Herrera

Sinnamon Claus OST

OST from the short film The Apology by Rolando J Herrera

The Apology

The Apology OST

Mark Thomas Taylor has worn many musical hats: composer, improviser, orchestral freelancer, chamber musician, teaching artist, bandleader and studio musician (He was even in a hip hop video once…).  In addition to several new chamber works, including “3 Songs About Puppetry” (commissioned by the principal Hornist of the Michigan Philharmonic), Mark has written and recorded the score for “Last Days of Coney Island” for famed animator/director Ralph Bakshi, placed two songs in the Dollface Productions independent feature film "The Girl" and scored the documentaries “9/11 Fear In Silence” for JadeFilms and Camille Billops’ "A String of Pearls”. Other projects include “It’s Not Like He’s Never Been There Before”, a multi-movement orchestral work, commissioned by the Tri-Centric Foundation and a series of transcriptions of the work of seminal jazz bandleader James Reese Europe’s 369th “Hellfighters” military band for the Brooklyn Repertory Ensemble. Mark has released four CDs of all original material, QuietLand, Circle Squared, At What Age and Live At The Freight (co-led with composer/saxophonist Jessica Jones).
One of the few performers to successfully integrate the notoriously difficult French Horn into the landscape of jazz and improvised music, Taylor’s broad musical background includes performing, composing and arranging. In addition to leading his own ensembles, Mark has also performed and recorded with an array of modern jazz giants including: Max Roach, Henry Threadgill, Wadada Leo Smith, Muhal Richard Abrams and Anthony Braxton.

Long Walk

Mark Thomas Taylor | Composer