Music Composer

ABOUT TAYLOR

Taylor Ambrosio Wood 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 worked as an arranger and orchestrator for various film and video game projects, including A R Rahman Live, and composed tracks for the cult smash-hit game, Yandere Simulator. Most recently, she produced The Last of Us Remixed, as well as composed soundtracks for The Window Box and Balthazar’s Dream. You can also find her music featured in The Believer magazine’s collection of progressive and avant-garde music from indie video games, 2010-2018.

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