Brian Tyler

Brian Tyler，自小便受到其祖父布景師Walter H. Tyler（曾在1951年因Cecil B. DeMille的"Samson and Delilah"獲得一項奧斯卡獎）的藝術(shù)熏陶。Tyler在很小的時候便開始練習(xí)譜曲，而在青少年時代便在美國和俄國各地演奏他自己的現(xiàn)場曲目。在進入電影配樂界之前，他曾在很多交響樂團、合唱團/唱詩班和樂隊中演奏鋼琴、鼓、古典打擊樂、吉他、貝司，并同時擁有哈佛碩士學(xué)位以及加利福尼亞大學(xué)洛杉磯分校（UCLA）學(xué)士學(xué)位，可謂奇才。自1997年在電影配樂界出道以來，Tyler已經(jīng)創(chuàng)作出了30余部佳作，其中很多作品在電影票房豐收中功勞不淺。他的作品主要有："Six-String Samurai" (1998)， "The 4th Floor" (1999)， "Frailty" (2001)，艾美獎提名作品 "Last Call" (2002)， "The Hunted" (2003)， "Darkness Falls" (2003)， 電視系列短劇 "Children of Dune" (2003)， Paparazzi (2004)。除此之外，Tyler也是索尼音樂公司的一位成功的簽約歌曲作者，他的作品覆及現(xiàn)代搖滾、流行、電子以及說唱樂。
Brian Tyler可謂是新生代配樂人的楷模。1998年與Red Elvises合作的"Six-String Samurai"整體是典型的西部牛仔風(fēng)情，但在某些段落中仍能隱約感覺到一種陰暗的色調(diào)。這部作品初步吸引了業(yè)內(nèi)人士們的眼光。此后的"The 4th Floor" (1999)、"Shadow Hours" (2000)、"Frailty" (2001)、"Terror Tract" (2000)、"Bubba Ho-Tep" (2002)等等這些驚悚懸念或恐怖的作品，讓Tyler不斷的演練這種黑暗、壓抑、恐怖、邪惡的風(fēng)格。與此同時，2002年的"Last Call"不但使Brian Tyler獲得了一項艾美獎提名，更使其他在真正意義上獲得了從業(yè)內(nèi)到樂迷的肯定。接下來的2003年是Tyler初步輝煌的一年，訂單不斷，佳作連連。2003年，Tyler的陰暗配樂風(fēng)格達到極致，在"Darkness Falls" (2003)和"The Hunted" (2003)這種恐怖和驚悚電影中得到了淋漓盡致的表現(xiàn)；而在"Timeline" (2003)、"Children of Dune" (2003)這樣半科幻半史詩的巨制中，仍然籠罩著壓抑與黑暗的氛圍，在群情激昂的鼓樂之中依然可以感受到一種渾然天成的歷史厚重感。"Children of Dune"自是一部好評如潮的佳作，而替代狀態(tài)不佳的Jerry Goldsmith為"Timeline"譜寫配樂也一時間讓Tyler成為了樂界焦點，Tyler也不負眾望，再推力作。2004、2005年，Tyler以不可擋之勢繼續(xù)演繹著他的輝煌。2005年是Tyler創(chuàng)作風(fēng)格的一個轉(zhuǎn)折點。在與Klaus Badelt合作完成了"Constantine"這部他所擅長的黑暗風(fēng)格作品之后，當(dāng)人們還津津樂道于這部作品之時，Tyler卻帶著一部"Greatest Game Ever Played"以一種全新的亮色站在了你我面前，大相徑庭的風(fēng)格給人們了不小驚喜。正如Tyler自己所說："前不久給'Constantine'配樂是在學(xué)習(xí)為黑暗主題譜寫配樂，而為'The Greatest Game Ever Played'的配樂則正相反，是一個不斷走向光明的歷程。我喜歡不同類型的嘗試，而這又是一次新的挑戰(zhàn)。"這就是一位優(yōu)秀配樂人的魅力，他可以不斷地突破自我，嘗試不同新的領(lǐng)域，給人們帶來一個又一個的驚喜。
綜觀其為數(shù)已不少的作品，其實我們可以清晰的感覺到Tyler以往都是以一種昏暗、憂郁、邪惡為主色調(diào)來控制其作品。當(dāng)然這和他接單的電影題材有著很大的原因，但不得不說的是，如果一個配樂人在某一時期適應(yīng)了一種配樂思維，他確實很可能在這一時期潛意識將其這時的作品都沾染上這種色彩。在早年Tyler的音樂更多的是一種以弦樂占據(jù)主導(dǎo)地位，如情感推進般的管弦樂，陰郁的大提琴，錯亂的不和諧音，將聽眾卷入他的陰暗世界。而在最近的"The Greatest Game Ever Played"和"Annapolis"這兩部電影中，Tyler嘗試了全新的風(fēng)格，突顯了打擊樂的地位，在緊湊的弦樂中配以瀟灑萬分的小軍鼓、群情激昂的大鼓，把這種積極向上、突破重重困難、奮然向前的精神表現(xiàn)的也十分的到位。當(dāng)然在Tyler的音樂中我們可以聽到很多大師的痕跡，例如Jerry Goldsmith、John Williams。當(dāng)你聽到"The Greatest Game Ever Played"的鼓樂時，細心的人們都會會心的一笑，但這個學(xué)習(xí)的過程是很必然的�？上驳氖�"Annapolis"與"The Greatest Game Ever Played"相比在音樂結(jié)構(gòu)上成熟和豐滿了很多，更加突現(xiàn)了其特色。
這里還特別值得提及的就是Tyler音樂元素運用之豐富讓人也十分感嘆，管弦樂，電子元素，世界元素，流行元素等等讓你聽來"玩"的都是十分的到位。同時Tyler除親自指揮樂團指揮外，作品中的很多樂器演奏都由其擔(dān)任，比如鋼琴、吉他、祖基琴、鍵盤、小提琴…… 當(dāng)然Tyler這堅實的音樂功底和他的音樂出身有著很直接的原因，除了科班出身之外，早年豐富多樣的演出經(jīng)歷使其能很從容地在配樂作品中加入多樣音樂元素，不斷應(yīng)對新的挑戰(zhàn)。如此年輕卻有如此全面的才華，確實讓人們佩服不已。同時我們也可以相信，這位耀眼的新星會繼續(xù)給我們帶來一個又一個驚喜。
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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)