SOund artist
American sound artist Tyler Bradley Walker’s music explores the cross-pollination of popular, rock, and concert music. Walker marshals a wide breadth of creative influences into intense and direct electronic soundscapes with a keen interest in embracing music’s experiential success.
Collaborator
An engaged and imaginative collaborator, Walker has worked with artists and ensembles as diverse as Angus Andrew (Liars), Answer Code Request, the Atlanta Percussion Trio, Ade Blackburn (Clinic), the Cincinnati Art Museum (Sol LeWitt Exhibit), Chris Connelly (Ministry), Carson Cox (Merchandise), percussionist Patti Cudd, Richard Devine, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, John McEntire (Tortoise), Daniel Myer, Luke Reynolds (Guster), Louis Resto (Eminem), Pat Sansone (Wilco), Jessie Stein (The Luyas), Tarwater, Martina Topley-Bird, Kurt Wagner (Lambchop) and many others. His new album The Sun The Earth The Moon and Me features experimental rock musician Tim Rutili, composers Alex Dowling, Mikel Rouse, soprano Lydia Adelle Brown and bassist Gros Ngolle Pokossi.
Walker is best known as one half of the experimental electronic rock duo Gone to Color, who released their debut album on October 15, 2021. The duo has been described as “well connected in the outlier world of music” with a “beguiling credit list” of collaborators on their debut album, according to music critic Michael Swiz. “Lush,” “sophisticated,” “shapeshifting,” “subdued,” “dreamy,” and “surreal” are some of the descriptions other critics, not limited to NPR, Stereogum, or Under The Radar, have used to describe the duo’s music; its eclecticism, however, belies easy categorization. Brooklyn Vegan described the duo as “the perfect group to herald the new wave” of “erudite chillout grooves.” Musicology Magazine (Sydney) described the album as “one of the finest releases of the year”. On January 27, 2023 Gone to Color released Gone to Color RMXS which featured remixes by electronic music pioneers The Field, Oval, and Plaid among others.
As a producer, audio engineer, and studio director over the last 14 years Walker has collaborated with and supported a long list of familiar bands including Blackberry Smoke, The Doobie Brothers, Elton John, Larkin Poe, Megadeth, String Cheese Incident, Zac Brown Band and has facilitated work with producers Brian Deck, Tom Drummond (Better Than Ezra), Mike Fraser, Ryan Hewitt, Damien Lewis, Manny Marroquin, Neal Pogue, Matt Serletic, Keith Stegall and Matt Wallace. Between 2010 and 2015, he acted as studio director and engineer for a multi-GRAMMY-winning artist in Atlanta. Walker also enjoys working as a music supervisor, with his work in this arena helping to garner many awards, including the Special Jury Prize for Dramatic Film at the Sundance Film Festival (2017), Outstanding Feature Film at the Women’s Image Network Awards (2018), Best Romance Film at the Berlin International Film Festival (2020), Most Watched Film at the New Renaissance Film Festival (2020) and Best LGBTQ feature at the Queens World Film Festival (2021). His work as music supervisor on the film Novitiate, directed by Maggie Betts, featured Academy Award winner Melissa Leo, Julianne Nicholson, Margaret Qualley, and Denis O’Hare.
