Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler，自小便受到其祖父布景师Walter H. Tyler（曾在1951年因Cecil B. DeMille的"Samson and Delilah"获得一项奥斯卡奖）的艺术熏陶。Tyler在很小的时候便开始练习谱曲，而在青少年时代便在美国和俄国各地演奏他自己的现场曲目。在进入电影配乐界之前，他曾在很多交响乐团、合唱团/唱诗班和乐队中演奏钢琴、鼓、古典打击乐、吉他、贝司，并同时拥有哈佛硕士学位以及加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）学士学位，可谓奇才。自1997年在电影配乐界出道以来，Tyler已经创作出了30余部佳作，其中很多作品在电影票房丰收中功劳不浅。他的作品主要有："Six-String Samurai" (1998)， "The 4th Floor" (1999)， "Frailty" (2001)，艾美奖提名作品 "Last Call" (2002)， "The Hunted" (2003)， "Darkness Falls" (2003)， 电视系列短剧 "Children of Dune" (2003)， Paparazzi (2004)。除此之外，Tyler也是索尼音乐公司的一位成功的签约歌曲作者，他的作品覆及现代摇滚、流行、电子以及说唱乐。
Brian Tyler可谓是新生代配乐人的楷模。1998年与Red Elvises合作的"Six-String Samurai"整体是典型的西部牛仔风情，但在某些段落中仍能隐约感觉到一种阴暗的色调。这部作品初步吸引了业内人士们的眼光。此后的"The 4th Floor" (1999)、"Shadow Hours" (2000)、"Frailty" (2001)、"Terror Tract" (2000)、"Bubba Ho-Tep" (2002)等等这些惊悚悬念或恐怖的作品，让Tyler不断的演练这种黑暗、压抑、恐怖、邪恶的风格。与此同时，2002年的"Last Call"不但使Brian Tyler获得了一项艾美奖提名，更使其他在真正意义上获得了从业内到乐迷的肯定。接下来的2003年是Tyler初步辉煌的一年，订单不断，佳作连连。2003年，Tyler的阴暗配乐风格达到极致，在"Darkness Falls" (2003)和"The Hunted" (2003)这种恐怖和惊悚电影中得到了淋漓尽致的表现；而在"Timeline" (2003)、"Children of Dune" (2003)这样半科幻半史诗的巨制中，仍然笼罩着压抑与黑暗的氛围，在群情激昂的鼓乐之中依然可以感受到一种浑然天成的历史厚重感。"Children of Dune"自是一部好评如潮的佳作，而替代状态不佳的Jerry Goldsmith为"Timeline"谱写配乐也一时间让Tyler成为了乐界焦点，Tyler也不负众望，再推力作。2004、2005年，Tyler以不可挡之势继续演绎着他的辉煌。2005年是Tyler创作风格的一个转折点。在与Klaus Badelt合作完成了"Constantine"这部他所擅长的黑暗风格作品之后，当人们还津津乐道于这部作品之时，Tyler却带着一部"Greatest Game Ever Played"以一种全新的亮色站在了你我面前，大相径庭的风格给人们了不小惊喜。正如Tyler自己所说："前不久给'Constantine'配乐是在学习为黑暗主题谱写配乐，而为'The Greatest Game Ever Played'的配乐则正相反，是一个不断走向光明的历程。我喜欢不同类型的尝试，而这又是一次新的挑战。"这就是一位优秀配乐人的魅力，他可以不断地突破自我，尝试不同新的领域，给人们带来一个又一个的惊喜。
综观其为数已不少的作品，其实我们可以清晰的感觉到Tyler以往都是以一种昏暗、忧郁、邪恶为主色调来控制其作品。当然这和他接单的电影题材有着很大的原因，但不得不说的是，如果一个配乐人在某一时期适应了一种配乐思维，他确实很可能在这一时期潜意识将其这时的作品都沾染上这种色彩。在早年Tyler的音乐更多的是一种以弦乐占据主导地位，如情感推进般的管弦乐，阴郁的大提琴，错乱的不和谐音，将听众卷入他的阴暗世界。而在最近的"The Greatest Game Ever Played"和"Annapolis"这两部电影中，Tyler尝试了全新的风格，突显了打击乐的地位，在紧凑的弦乐中配以潇洒万分的小军鼓、群情激昂的大鼓，把这种积极向上、突破重重困难、奋然向前的精神表现的也十分的到位。当然在Tyler的音乐中我们可以听到很多大师的痕迹，例如Jerry Goldsmith、John Williams。当你听到"The Greatest Game Ever Played"的鼓乐时，细心的人们都会会心的一笑，但这个学习的过程是很必然的。可喜的是"Annapolis"与"The Greatest Game Ever Played"相比在音乐结构上成熟和丰满了很多，更加突现了其特色。
这里还特别值得提及的就是Tyler音乐元素运用之丰富让人也十分感叹，管弦乐，电子元素，世界元素，流行元素等等让你听来"玩"的都是十分的到位。同时Tyler除亲自指挥乐团指挥外，作品中的很多乐器演奏都由其担任，比如钢琴、吉他、祖基琴、键盘、小提琴…… 当然Tyler这坚实的音乐功底和他的音乐出身有着很直接的原因，除了科班出身之外，早年丰富多样的演出经历使其能很从容地在配乐作品中加入多样音乐元素，不断应对新的挑战。如此年轻却有如此全面的才华，确实让人们佩服不已。同时我们也可以相信，这位耀眼的新星会继续给我们带来一个又一个惊喜。
------------------------------------------------------------------
Brian Tyler is an American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer known for his scores for motion pictures such as Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Eagle Eye, The Expendables, Fast Five, Fast and Furious, The Expendables 2, Law Abiding Citizen, The Final Destination, Rambo, Constantine, Now You See Me, and Battle: Los Angeles. He is signed with Sony Music as a songwriter. He was nominated for Film Composer of the Year by the International Film Music Critics Association. In 2010 Tyler was inducted into the music branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. His films have grossed $5.2 billion globally.
Tyler began scoring features shortly after he received his bachelor’s degree from UCLA and his master’s degree from Harvard University. Robert Kraft, who was impressed after hearing Tyler's music, encouraged Tyler to pursue a career in film scoring. He began his career in 1997, where he composed the film score for the independent film Bartender by Gabe Torres. The following year, he and Red Elvises composed the film score for Six-String Samurai.
Tyler's breakthrough came in 2001, after composing the film score for Frailty (2001).
"Well, the first film released that I scored was Six-String Samurai, but it was Frailty that helped me get some more exposure."
William Friedkin, after being impressed by Frailty, called Tyler in to compose The Hunted (2003) which won him a World Soundtrack Award in 2002 as well as The World Soundtrack Award as Best New Film Composer of the Year. Later, Tyler also wrote music for Star Trek: Enterprise, and Children of Dune over a span of one month, coinciding with his work on Darkness Falls.
At the end of 2003, Tyler began working more on big-budget films, including Timeline (2003), Godsend (2004), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005), and Constantine (2005). His score for “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” hit #1 on the iTunes soundtrack sales charts, while his soundtrack for “Children of Dune” reached #4 on theAmazon album charts.
He was then hired to do Partition (2007). He had to integrate Indian and Middle Eastern music with orchestral writing. He conducted the orchestral portion of the score in Los Angeles with the Hollywood Studio Symphony.
In 2008, Tyler composed music for the 2008 films Rambo, Eagle Eye, and The Lazarus Project.
He continued by composing Dragonball Evolution, Fast & Furious, The Final Destination, and Middle Men.
On September 5, 2011 Tyler announced that he is currently in talks for scoring the 2011 remake of Highlander and scoring pilot episodes for the animated series Transformers: Prime. Later, he has scored next 4 episodes. On October 7 it was announced that Tyler has been chosen to compose the music for pilot to the Steven Spielberg produced TV series Terra Nova.
Tyler scored Iron Man 3 (2013).
Tyler has received two Emmy Award nominations, 10 BMI Music Awards, five ASCAP Music Awards, and was recently nominated for a record 6 Goldspirit Awards (2012), including Best Composer of the Year. Tyler is a multi-instrumentalist, playing drums, piano, guitar, orchestral and world percussion, bass, cello, guitarviol, charango and bouzouki, amongst others.
Tyler also scored the game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. He recently arranged and conducted the new film logo music for Universal Pictures and composed a theme for the 100-year anniversary of the studio. Tyler's cues for Children of Dune were used in the theatrical trailers for Star Trek (2009), Master and Commander (2003), Sahara (2005), Cinderella Man (2005), The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). The track "Summon the Worms" from Children of Dune was used as a leader for the Belgian/Dutch show Peking Express, and in the first leaked promotional reel for The Golden Compass (2007).[12] A version of the track "War Begins" is used in the first full-length theatrical trailer of Star Trek (2009). (wiki)