Media Arts Music

11/25/2025

This past weekend was truly special! On Sunday, we premiered Seven Minutes Out, a 20-minute short film at NCG Cinemas, just outside Nashville, and it was a full house! 🎬 I’m beyond thrilled and honored to have composed the music for it. Huge thanks to writer/director Kevin Marcus Cook and the entire cast and crew for letting me be a part of this amazing project. Looking forward to the next steps, including film festival submissions and possibly some streaming! Stay tuned! 🎥✨

09/28/2025

Tenebrae Agitatae by Bryan J. Armand
Recorded in Varna, Bulgaria with the European Recording Orchestra and conducted by Derek Gleeson. This piece was composed and orchestrated by Bryan Armand.

09/21/2025

🎂 Happy Birthday to Gustav Holst (1874–1934) 🎶

Born on September 21, 1874, Holst’s legacy is epic in the world of music. Best known for The Planets, his bold orchestrations and visionary harmonic language reshaped how composers think about orchestral color, rhythm, and atmosphere. His work continues to ripple through generations of musicians, directly inspiring film composers like John Williams, Hans Zimmer, and countless others who have borrowed from Holst’s textures, motifs, and sense of cosmic grandeur. In many ways, Holst laid the groundwork for the sound of modern cinema. The monumental swells, otherworldly harmonies, and sweeping orchestral landscapes that define today’s blockbuster film scores owe a great debt to his imagination.

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09/12/2025

Happy Birthday, Hans Zimmer! 🎶

Born on September 12th, 1957, today, we celebrate one of cinema’s greatest sonic architects — a composer whose music has reshaped the emotional landscape of film. From the thunderous power of Gladiator and Dune to the cosmic wonder of Interstellar and Inception, your scores have inspired awe, tears, and goosebumps in equal measure. Thank you for showing the world that film music is more than background; it’s storytelling in its most primal form.

(Original photo by Raph_PH, licensed under CC BY 2.0. Cropped and AI-upscaled by [Bryan Armand].

09/11/2025

🎶Happy Birthday, Arvo Pärt!✨

Born September 11, 1935, Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt changed contemporary music forever with his tintinnabuli style. Works like Spiegel im Spiegel, Fratres, and Tabula Rasa continue to move listeners with their profound simplicity and spiritual depth!

📸 Photo licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.

08/23/2025

🎶Happy Birthday to the incomparable Alexandre Desplat!🎻

Born on August 23rd, 1961, Desplat is one of the most innovative and expressive composers of our time. His work has shaped the sound of modern cinema, from The Grand Budapest Hotel to The Shape of Water and beyond. His beautiful, minimalist textures and his ability to weave elegance, emotion, and subtlety into every score continue to inspire composers and filmmakers around the world.

📸 Photo by Georges Biard
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

08/14/2025

Remembering James Horner (August 14, 1953 - June 22, 2015)

Today, we celebrate the birthday of one of cinema’s most gifted composers. From the high-octane, Avant-Garde tension of Aliens to the rich harmony and orchestration of Braveheart and Legends of the Fall, James Horner’s music carried unmatched emotional power; weaving heart, adventure, and humanity into every score. His melodies continue to inspire audiences and musicians worldwide.

📷 Credit: FERT98, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikipedia Commons

08/02/2025

Tenebrae Preludium composed by Bryan J. Armand

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07/19/2025

🎶🔥 Happy Birthday to the great Ramin Djawadi! (born on July 19, 1974) 🧊🎶

From the icy strings, fiery brass, and bold percussion textures of Game of Thrones to the surreal, synthetic dreamscapes of Westworld, your music doesn’t just accompany stories, it shapes them.

Thanks so much for scoring with imagination, piercing emotion, and epic intensity. Here’s to another year of brilliance!

📸 Photo by Unknown09111 (AI image upscaling)
Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
Original image on Wikimedia Commons

07/11/2025

🎂✨ Happy Birthday to Anna Þorvaldsdóttir! ✨🎂
Born on July 11, 1977, in Iceland, Anna Þorvaldsdóttir (also known as Anna Thorvaldsdottir) is one of the most visionary and innovative voices in contemporary classical music. Her work evokes vast natural landscapes and deep inner stillness, often blending extended techniques, slow-shifting textures, and a powerful sense of space. Whether through large orchestral works or intimate chamber music, Anna’s sound world is immersive, boldly imaginative, and haunting.

If you're not familiar with her music yet, start with “AERIALITY”, “In the Light of Air”, or “ARCHORA”.

📸 Photo Credit:

Magnus Fröderberg / norden.org

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Denmark

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07/07/2025

🎂 Happy Birthday, Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Born on July 7th, 1860, Mahler redefined the emotional and structural possibilities of orchestral music, influencing generations of composers. His sweeping symphonies, psychological depth, and recurring motifs helped shape the cinematic language of film scores from Bernard Hermann to John Williams.