Graham Reynolds Austin, Texas based, Composer-bandleader Graham Reynolds creates, performs, and records music for film, theater, dance, rock clubs and concert halls with collaborators ranging from Richard Linklater to DJ Spooky to the Austin Symphony Orchestra. As bandleader of the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, Reynolds has repeatedly toured the country and released three critically acclaimed albums. As Co-Artistic Director of Golden Hornet Project with Peter Stopschinski, Reynolds has produced more than fifty concerts of world-premier alt-classical music by more than sixty composers, as well as five symphonies, two concertos and countless chamber pieces of his own. Reynolds music has been heard throughout the world on TV, on stage, in films, and on radio, from HBO to Showtime, Cannes Film Festival to the Kennedy Center, and BBC to NPR. His score to the 2006 Robert Downey, Jr. feature A Scanner Darkly. was named Best Soundtrack of the Decade by Cinema Retro magazine. His awards include the Lowe Music Theater Award, four Austin Critic’s Table awards, an Amp Award, five Austin Chronicle Best Composer wins, a B. Iden Payne Award. Meet the Composer and Map grants, as well as support from the National Endowment for the Arts for several projects. 2011 sees twin CD releases on Innova Records, the label branch of the American Composers Forum, of “Three Portraits of Duke Ellington”, a triptych of band, strings, and remixes in tribute to and inspired by the seminal composer-bandleader, and “The Difference Engine”, a triple concerto for violin, cello, piano, and string orchestra. Duke! Three Portraits of Ellington went on to win an Independent Music Award for Best Tribute Album in 2012.
Recorded the score to "A Scanner Darkly" in his bedroom.
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Has written two operas, including one based on the life of Genghis Khan.
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Leads the band Golden Arm Trio.
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Teaches music theory at the Austin Chamber Music Center.
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Is a member of two theater companies in Austin, Salvage Vanguard Theater and Rude Mechs.
Composer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Buttercup
2016
Short completed
The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
2017
Documentary
Day 5
2016
TV Series 7 episodes
At the Fork
2016
Documentary
Starving the Beast
2016
Documentary
Richard Linklater: Dream Is Destiny
2016
Documentary
The Eternal
2016
Short
The Diplomat
2015
Documentary
21 Years: Richard Linklater
2014
Documentary
Stand Up Planet
2013
TV Series 2013
Hotline
2013
Short
All Is Bright
2013
Follow
2013/I
Short
Far Marfa
2013
composed by
Before Midnight
2013
To the East of Town
2012
Short
Shepard & Dark
2012
Documentary
Up to Speed
2012
TV Series 6 episodes
Saturday Morning Mystery
2012
original score
Trash Dance
2012
Documentary
Nikola Tesla-Visionary of Modern Times
2012
TV Movie music composed by
P.O.V.
2011
TV Series documentary 1 episode
Bernie
2011
Urana
2011
Short original music by
5 Time Champion
2011
Cubik
2010
Short
Holy Hell
2009
I'll Come Running
2008
This Place
2008
Documentary short
Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement
2007
Video documentary original music by
All About Tesla: The Research
2007
Documentary
One Summer in Austin: The Story of Filming 'A Scanner Darkly'
2006
Video documentary short
The Weight of the Line: Animation Tales
2006
Video documentary short
Gretchen
2006/I
My Electric Bill
2006
Short
TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism
2006
Video documentary
A Scanner Darkly
2006
Cremains
2005
Short
The Meat Market
2003
Video short
Lonelyland
2003
Short
Moonlight by the Sea
2003
I Love You
2002
Short
The Astronomer
2001
Short
The Journeyman
2001
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Diplomat
2015
Documentary music score producer
All Is Bright
2013
musician: drums / musician: pedal steel / musician: piano and miscellaneous / score mixer / score producer / score recordist
Before Midnight
2013
music mixer / music recordist / musician: piano and misc / score producer
Up to Speed
2012
TV Series music recording & mixing - 5 episodes
Bernie
2011
music mixer / music recordist / musician: guitars, contra bass / musician: piano / score producer
Arts in Context
2011
TV Series documentary composer - 1 episode
Incendiary: The Willingham Case
2011
Documentary composer: theme music
Alabama Moon
2009
musician: drums
A Scanner Darkly
2006
musician: various instruments / score mixer / score recordist
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Trash Dance
2012
Documentary performer: "Trash Dance", "I'm Not a Good Ballet Dancer At All", "Boxing", "You're Not Rid of Me Yet", "Skate Rink", "Leave Your Trucks On", "We Left a Lasting Impression" / writer: "Ivory's Rap", "Trash Dance", "I'm Not a Good Ballet Dancer At All", "Boxing", "You're Not Rid of Me Yet", "Skate Rink", "Leave Your Trucks On", "We Left a Lasting Impression"
Bernie
2011
producer: "Love Lifted Me"
A Scanner Darkly
2006
performer: "7 Years From Now", "Aphids ", "Abrasocaine", "Swallowed Up in Victory", "A New Path", "The Dark World Where I Dwell", "Room 203", "Your Move, Peterbilt", "Sex, Beer, and Pills", "Pose as a Nark", "Are You Experiencing Any Difficulties?", "Do You Like Cats?", "A Farm Near the Mountains", "A Scanner Darkly", "Escorted to the Bright Lights", "You'll See the Way You Saw Before", "Little Blue Flowers", "Strawberry Pie", "Bug-Bite Squared", "Part of the Plan" - uncredited