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Between composing scores for film and television, producing and mixing for artists, and performing as a member of indie art-rock band DYAN, Samuel Jones has been a part of the vibrant Los Angeles music scene for over a decade.
Sam’s scoring work has encompassed a wide range of projects from Netflix’s 2018 animated feature Next Gen - featuring a 65 piece orchestra recorded at London’s AIR Lyndhurst - to six seasons of TNT’s hit drama series Animal Kingdom. As both solo artist and prolific collaborator, Sam has contributed music ranging in style from electronic minimalism to lush orchestral to over 15 feature films, as well as TV, documentaries, video installations for internationally renowned artists, and advertising campaigns.
Apart from the film and TV world, Sam has lent technical expertise and creative skill as a producer, recording engineer, and mixer to a variety of artists and music projects, including saxophonist Sam Gendel, experimental singer-songwriter-producer Katie Gately, jazz pianist Richard Sears, and avant-garde composer Ethan Braun. His production and guitar work with DYAN has resulted in the Looking For Knives album and Absence EP, both of which have been mined by music supervisors for major network TV and streaming placements.
Sam was born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, where he studied guitar and film scoring at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. He spends his time away from the studio devouring films from around the globe, reading literary fiction and philosophy, and roaming the hills of Silverlake.
Sam’s scoring work has encompassed a wide range of projects from Netflix’s 2018 animated feature Next Gen - featuring a 65 piece orchestra recorded at London’s AIR Lyndhurst - to six seasons of TNT’s hit drama series Animal Kingdom. As both solo artist and prolific collaborator, Sam has contributed music ranging in style from electronic minimalism to lush orchestral to over 15 feature films, as well as TV, documentaries, video installations for internationally renowned artists, and advertising campaigns.
Apart from the film and TV world, Sam has lent technical expertise and creative skill as a producer, recording engineer, and mixer to a variety of artists and music projects, including saxophonist Sam Gendel, experimental singer-songwriter-producer Katie Gately, jazz pianist Richard Sears, and avant-garde composer Ethan Braun. His production and guitar work with DYAN has resulted in the Looking For Knives album and Absence EP, both of which have been mined by music supervisors for major network TV and streaming placements.
Sam was born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, where he studied guitar and film scoring at University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. He spends his time away from the studio devouring films from around the globe, reading literary fiction and philosophy, and roaming the hills of Silverlake.
Animal Kingdom: TNT/Warner Horizon/John Wells Productions 2016-2022
The Unknown Country: dir. Morrisa Maltz; Cold Iron Pictures 2022
Next Gen: dir. Joe Ksander, Kevin R. Adams; Netflix 2018
Equity: dir. Meera Menon; Broad Street Pictures/Sony Pictures Classics 2016
Lila & Eve: dir. Charles Stone III; A+E Studios 2015
We’ll Never Have Paris: dir. Simon Helberg, Jocelyn Towne; Bifrost Pictures/Orion Pictures 2014
Preservation: dir. Christopher Denham; Present Pictures/The Orchard 2014
Farah Goes Bang: dir. Meera Menon; Angel Grace Productions/Seed+Spark 2013
I Am I: dir. Jocelyn Towne; Present Pictures/Gravitas Ventures 2013
see full credits list on imdb
selected other work:
As It Lays: theme song, YouTube web series/installation by artist Alex Israel, 2012-2019 - watch here
Grand Canyon In Depth & Grand Canyon Moments: original score (w/ Alexis Marsh), web series for National Park Service and Grand Canyon Conservancy, dir: Ryan Christensen, 2014-2020 - watch here & here
DYAN - Looking For Knives & Absence EP: album production, recording/mixing, guitar, various instruments, 2016-2018 - listen here
Katie Gately - Color: album mixing, bass guitar; Tri Angle Records, 2016 - listen here
Sam Gendel & Ethan Braun - Rio Nilo 66: album mixing; ULYSSA, 2021 - listen here
orchestral, drama, epic, emotional build *
orchestral, action, epic/intense
orchestral/electronic, drama, intimate *
orchestral, percussion, action, suspense/epic
orchestral, period/epic, main title theme
orchestral, percussion, action, epic/intense
industrial/rock, action, suspense
industrial/rock, drama, dark
electronic, drama, atmospheric
orchestral, drama, mysterious *
orchestral, drama, melancholy *
electronic/ambient, drama, nostalgic
electronic, suspense, cerebral
electronic, otherworldly, epic
piano, drama, mysterious/melancholy
piano, drama, mysterious/suspense
drama/action, epic (violin solo by Kayla Moffett)
electronic/piano, drama, theme
electronic, action, suspense
acoustic/strings, drama, suspense
ambient, drama/thriller, ominous
* co-composed in collaboration with Alexis Marsh
