RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
• Released three albums in 2024: NEW MODERN STRINGS, MORE POWER, & THE APPRENTICE TO THE SURGEON OF THE NIGHTSKY
• Composer for feature doc STRIPPED FOR PARTS: AMERICAN JOURNALISM AT THE BRINK
• Sound FX for Alfonso Cuaron's Apple series DISCLAIMER
• Sound supervisor & mixer for EXTRAPOLATIONS, 8-hour series for Apple. Also composed main title music.
• Music Supervisor for WE OWN THIS CITY
• Composer for THE AMERICAN DREAM & OTHER FAIRY TALES, feature doc by Abigail Disney & Kathleen Hughes
• Soundtrack album producer for NEPTUNE FROST
• Sound designer & mixer for NEPTUNE FROST, Saul Williams’ & Anisia Uzeyman's Africanfuturist musical feature
• Released compilation album ENDLESS: Forty Years of Ambient Music by Blake Leyh
• Released debut album of experimental band N TO THE POWER as co-band leader
• Arranged, produced, mixed big-band & choir sessions for THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA
• Collaborated with BLONDIE, arranged, performed, produced, mixed song for finale of THE DEUCE
• Mixed Nicholas Payton’s album AFRO-CARIBBEAN MIXTAPE
AWARDS
Prime Time Emmy for Mixing TREME (2014) / Grammy Nomination for the TREME soundtrack album (2010) / MPSE Golden Reel for Best Sound on BARTON FINK (1990) / MPSE Golden Reel for Best Sound on THE ABYSS (1989)
MUSIC SUPERVISING
WE OWN THIS CITY (2022) / THE PLOT AGAINST AMERICA (2020) / THE DEUCE (2017 - 2019) / BOSCH (2014 - 2019) / SHOW ME A HERO (2016) / TREME (2010 - 2013) / HENRY'S CRIME (2010) / THE WIRE (2002 - 2008) / TWIST OF FAITH (2004)
SOUND DESIGN / EDITING / MIXING
DISCLAIMER (2024) / KIMI (2022) / EXTRAPOLATIONS (2022) / NEPTUNE FROST (2021) /
BURNING CANE (2019) / HARRIET (2019) / THE GOLDFINCH (2019) / SHADOW (2018) / THE SNOWMAN (2017)
QUEEN OF KATWE (2016) / INTO THE WOODS (2014) / EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (2011) /
THE TEMPEST (2010) / THE READER (2008) / RACHEL GETTING MARRIED (2008)
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE (2007) / A DIRTY SHAME (2004) / THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (2004) /
FRIDA (2002) / Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (2001) / BAMBOOZLED (2001) / CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN
DRAGON (2000) / TITUS (1999) / SUMMER OF SAM (1999) / HE GOT GAME (1998) / MATILDA (1996)
GET SHORTY (1995) / CASINO (1995) / BARTON FINK (1990) / STATE OF GRACE (1990) / THE ABYSS (1989)
THE BIG PICTURE (1989) / THE MODERNS (1988) / FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES (1986)
THE HOWLING II (1985) / TJ HOOKER (1985) / MOONLIGHTING (1985) RAPPIN’ (1985)
COMPOSING
STRIPPED FOR PARTS: AMERICAN JOURNALISM AT THE BRINK (2023) / EXTRAPOLATIONS Main Title (2022)
THE AMERICAN DREAM & OTHER FAIRY TALES (2022) / THE PEOPLE VS. AGENT ORANGE (2021) / JANZ ARTIST IN TIME (2019) / DISTURBING THE PEACE (2016) / THE TRIALS OF SPRING (2015) / THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA (2009) / KILLING KASZTNER (2008) / PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL (2008) / KNEE DEEP (2007) / THIS FILM IS NOT YET RATED (2006) / TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE (2005) / TWIST OF FAITH (2004) / THE END (2004) / THE WIRE (END CREDITS THEME) (2002) / LE MAL DE SOI (2001) / CHAIN CAMERA (2000) / SICK: THE LIFE & DEATH OF BOB FLANAGAN, SUPERMASOCHIST (1997) / TRUE CRIME (1995) / SHOWGIRLS: GLITZ & ANGST (2002) / BLOOD RUN (1994) / NEW EDEN (1994) / THE SERPENT’S TALE (1993) / ODILE & YVETTE AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD (1993) / AMERICAN CYBORG (1992) / SECOND COUSIN ONCE REMOVED (1992) / STAR TIME (1991)
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About
Blake Leyh is an Emmy-winning, Grammy-nominated composer, music supervisor, music producer, and sound designer who lives in New York City. His credits include films by James Cameron, The Coen Brothers, Spike Lee, Ang Lee, John Waters, Alfonso Cuaron, Jonathan Demme, Julie Taymor, Mira Nair, Zhang Yimou, and Saul Williams. Leyh was the music supervisor and composer for all five seasons of HBO's acclaimed series The Wire, for which he also composed the end theme music, and has been the music supervisor for all of David Simon's subsequent television shows. Leyh has written film scores for over twenty feature films and contributed memorable sound work to over fifty movies. He has produced albums by 1980s punk band The Holy Sisters of The Gaga Dada, “the voice of New Orleans” John Boutté, and musician-poet Saul Williams. He has released six albums of solo music, plus film scores, and in 2021 a compilation album ENDLESS: 40 Years of Ambient Music by Blake Leyh 1980 - 2020. Leyh’s latest solo album release is NEW MODERN STRINGS, which explores the 24-string electric harp called the Gravikord.
