June 2015 - Score for PBS documentary, BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: TOM BRADLEY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE Premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and airing February 2016 on PBS
August 2016 - Score for Richard Tanne’s feature film about the Obama’s first date, SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2016, released summer 2016 in theaters nationwide. Album available now on itunes Southside with You (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Score for documentary, MAYA ANGELOU: AND STILL I RISE Premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Limited theatrical release on Oct, 14, 2016. Aired on PBS in
Feb. 2017
Recording the score with string quintet plus a new instrument I developed with violin maker, David Rivinus, called THE TRANCENDELLO.
Some of my 2019 original Afro Futuristic microtonal music written in surround in a program entitiled:
“MUSIC FROM THE OTHER WAKANDA”
at the Glendale College Planetarium.
Amazon 2020 release of Richard Tanne’s CHEMICAL HEARTS. Score by SJT.
Soundtrack Album available on Lakeshore Records:
https://www.facebook.com/LakeshoreRecords/videos/782573632571652/
January 2015 - Score for Dai Sil Kim-Gibson’s documentary on North Korea entitled “PEOPLE ARE THE SKY”
wrote an intergalactic microtonal pop song now heard in Oga’s Cantina at Disneyland
Had the honor of scoring Robert Townsend’s superb documentary, MAKING THE FIVE HEARTBEATS
Memphis Driving Theme (click below image)
Lee Sklar, Mike Baird, Rich Raposa, Jim Cox
SJT Jason Lee Evyen Klean
Arrangement of Elvis Presley’s “If I Can Dream” we did
for Jason’s onscreen character sung by Mark Arnell
MEMPHIS BEAT (formerly “Delta Blues”)
(TBS-Warners-Clark Johnson pilot 2010)
SJT arrangement of “Freight Train” for Fantasyland Train Station
SJT arrangement of “Prince of Decorah” for Dumbo Storybook Circus area
Music for new wing of FANTASYLAND Disney World 2012
I AM HERE
In January 2013 Chuck Jonkey, Brad Dutz and I did and unusual concert at MorYork Gallery using homemade instruments like the balloon drums you hear above, pots, pans, furniture, glass vases all brought back from the fictional land of Rummagia.
MUSIC FROM THE KINGDOM OF RUMMAGIA 2013
This film represents a marriage of story, symbology and musical cosmology. It is driven by music written from the transcendent tonality paradigm, incorporating a broader universe of frequency relationships than those available on conventional instruments. Most all of the superimposed artwork and iconography in the film draw from the musical graphics of Ervin McDonald Wilson. This even includes the patches on the astronaut's uniform. Unofficially rated PG. I AM HERE chornicles a female astronaut’s journey into inner and outer space
aboard a new class of spaceship that responds to musical data and to the emotions of the pilot. Due to an unexpected gravitational anomaly that diverts her course she is faced with the possibility of being stranded in space forever. She ends up working her way into an altered state in what turns out to be a vision quest in outer space.
SHORT SCI FI FILM, “I AM HERE”
made in 2014 by Taylor and Rapoport