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Mark Taylor Composer
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Composer. Film & TV Music . Production Library Music . Concert Music . Jazz Hornist. Educator.
Recovering from/living with Embouchure Dystonia

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youtube.com/@MarkTaylorMusic
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Breath.Eyes from my album "At What Age" available from my Bandcamp page (link in bio). Thought I'd post a version with a bit of the melody...

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June 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
June 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
June 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
3 nurses and my wife asked if I wanted help with a shower. It quickly became apparent that they actually do think that I ...smell bad?

That's not how that dream was supposed to go 🙁

Upside is that the surgery was successful and complications are being addressed
January 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
2024 was very...interesting (?) and 2025 is guaranteed to start off the same way. That said, I have big plans for the New Year and I can't wait to share all the new adventures with you. Here's wishing a happy, productive and artistic 2025 to everyone!

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January 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I haven't really posted any of the music from my last album as a Hornist, so here's one of my favorite tracks from At What Age
featuring poet EJ Antonio
open.spotify.com/track/2ekQIt...
At What Age (feat. EJ Antonio)
Mark Taylor · At What Age · Song · 2011
open.spotify.com
December 2, 2024 at 8:13 PM
At one point I was working on a project to score Oscar Micheaux silent film Within Our Gates, so I spent some time doing character sketches. Here's a bit of one for the main character, played by Evelyn Preer. The whole thing is on my YouTube which is in my bio...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Santa has 7 daughters?!? In this short from @scrawnystrange.bsky.social, Papreeka teaches Mason how to make her special hot chocolate (and offers to play fire tamales with him)...

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November 20, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Reposted by Mark Taylor Composer
The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie.

An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough.

So finish the thing.
November 13, 2024 at 2:38 PM
A bit of an introduction (since I'm actually spending time over here now). I'm a media composer (I do sometimes get the occasional commission, though). I had a long career playing French Horn, mostly in jazz and improvised music

#jazz #filmmusic #frenchhorn #film #composer #jazzhorn #indiefilm
November 20, 2024 at 8:57 PM
A while back I "played" (watched) an online game that had fairytale characters living in the real world. The Big Bad Wolf was the sheriff and was very busy solving a murder mystery. I REALLY want to score something like that...
November 17, 2024 at 9:53 PM
Finally got to watch and thoroughly enjoyed it!
November 16, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Meet Wally. He's my new studio assistant. He has the very important jobs of holding my headphones and my glasses...

#composerlife #studiolife #music #filmmusic #productionmusic #frenchhornplayer #recordingstudio #mediamusic #jazz #newmusic
November 15, 2024 at 6:13 AM
Just a taste of the score for a recent horror opus from Scrawny Strange Productions! I always have so much fun doing these!

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#filmmusic
#newmusic
#horrormovies
#shortfilm
#indiefilm
#originalmusic
November 15, 2024 at 6:01 AM
Breath.Eyes from my album "At What Age" available from my Bandcamp page (link in bio). Thought I'd post a version with a bit of the melody...

#jazz #jazzhorn #frenchhorn #composer #composerlife #music #improvisation #contemporaryjazz #originalmusic
November 15, 2024 at 5:58 AM