A nighttime arrival to somewhere sacred.  Some orchestral strings and tones playing forward and reverse.

Yosemite - Night Drive

Yosemite - Credits

Let's Not Panic - Short & Spooky

Yosemite - Closing Credits

Demos

Over The Top Hero Theme

A sad mood gives way to something more sinister

Funeral

Inspired by "The Theory of Everything"; recorded at Warner Bros, May 5, 2018.

Living Waltz - Full Orchestra

Gothic Main Titles

Contempt - Delerue Tribute

Trailer - Slow Burn

As part of USC's Screen Scoring program, the opportunity was given to write an arrangement of a famous film score for USC's Big Band, and to then have it recorded it at Capitol Records (!) by Al Schmitt himself. I chose to arrange Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho".

Psycho for Big Band

Ryder McNair is a versatile and collaborative film composer and musician.  He has scored numerous feature and short films that have screened at international film festivals including South By Southwest, Tribeca, Slamdance, Seattle, Santa Barbara and Mill Valley.

This year, Ryder was thrilled to study with the likes of Pete Anthony, Patrick Kirst and Lawrence Shragge at USC's Screen Scoring Masters program, where he was the recipient of both the Joe and Alice Harnell Scholarship and the Betty Rose Collaboration Awards.  During the year he also worked on Netflix's upcoming Orson Welles feature doc, They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, SXSW short film Come and Take It, along with commercials for Dee Rees (Walmart) and the NBA.

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