My name is Luke Snyder. I have been composing for 15 years now, both in the orchestral and electronic realm. I graduated Lipscomb University with a degree in Commercial Production, with an emphasis on Composition.
My approach to music is completely based off of the emotion of the project. With each new musical endeavor, I enter without any preconceived theoretical ideas. Everything is crafted specifically for what you want, resulting in music that is dinstinctive to the nature of the project. My goal is to be an “unselfish musician,” which requires every decision I make to highlight your creation, never distracting from it.
My major influences are Danny Elfman, John Powell, and Michael Giacchino. I’ve studied under award-winning composers and musicians such as Benjamin Blasko, Brown Bannister, Tim Lauer, and John Mark Painter.
A few projects that I have worked on so far include orchestrating for Tommee Profitt’s Birth of a King concert, arranging the strings for Colton Dixon’s song Canvas, and transcribing charts for The Arcadian Wild’s Welcome album.
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I did a rescore for a scene from the show Westworld for a competition. I was not given any artistic direction for the music, nor was there any context for the scene; the only instruction was to score music that makes the chase sequence seem ‘faster.’
This project involved a lot of sound design, synthesizing, composing, orchestrating, production, mixing, and mastering.
I wrote the strings for Colton Dixon’s song “Canvas” The file is linked below.
Arranged parts for Tommee Profitt’s Christmas event, The Birth of a King, alongside other arrangers.
This is an animated short that I composed and performed the music for. It was fun and challenging to capture the whimsical character of the film, while maintaining a strong jazz influence.
The film is linked below.
I got the honor to work with the highly talented Evan Johnston on this mystery/suspense short film, called A Most Unexpected Ending.
This involved many tasks, including researching classic mystery scores, writing the score, orchestrating and transcribing the score, and creating a session to later record a live orchestra performing/recording the score.
It was a blast to work on this project! It is linked below.
My band, Garden, released our first EP, called Elements. I co-wrote all the songs with the band, particularly the arrangement and the piano parts. I helped co-produce the album, wrote the strings for some of the songs, and added some sound design and nature sounds.
I also composed and self - produced all the interludes on this album. It is all linked below.
I wrote a piece that was picked up by the stunningly talented University of North Texas wind band. It is a 3 movement piece, all bound together by three main themes and intertwine with each other. This project involved much copyist work at the beginning, and then a good amount of adjusting and working with the people at UNT to make it work as best as it could for live performance. The performance video is linked below.
I composed the original score for the “Unguarded” short film, created by the amazing Zechariah Olson. This project involved making a cohesive score with an unusual combination of instruments, in a way that emphasizes the whimsy of the film.
The film is attached below.
Transcribed the Arcadian Wild’s album, “Welcome.” Involved listening to individual/ensemble parts and writing them into finale, creating dynamics, formatting, creating parts, and making it visually pleasing.
I wrote original music for the film The Rise of Hope. This included a hybrid of orchestral instruments (orchestrated and recorded into the project) and sound design/synthesizers. The film is below.
I wrote and produced original music for this 30-minute short film.
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