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GARY GUNN   
composer | music producer | audiovisual

Gary Gunn is a BAFTA Breakthrough awarded composer with a portfolio of award-winning work across film, TV, multimedia art, and interactive experiences. He has contributed to and co-created groundbreaking immersive installations showcased globally, including at Palais de Tokyo, The Smithsonian Institution, Moogfest, SXSW, The 14th Factory, Comic Con, the Museum of the Moving Image, the New York Botanical Garden, and TED.  In 2024, Gunn crafted the entire soundscape for all interconnected spaces within Mercer Labs museum, which debuted at its inaugural NYC opening. Within the same year, he designed the sonic landscape for Nona Hendyrx and Mickalene Thomas's The Dream Machine exhibition at Lincoln Center.

 

Gunn composed the original score for A Thousand and One, which won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize and earned over 50 award nominations, including FFCC and ICSA Best Score nods. He is also the composer of the Peabody Award-winning David Makes Man and the 3-time Emmy-nominated Master of Light (HBO), which garnered an IDA Documentary Award nomination for Best Music Score. Additionally, he recently scored the 2025 Netflix series Forever, a bold, reimagined take on Judy Blume's iconic novel. Gunn's distinctive artistry has earned recognition from figures like Oprah, who named him to her Super Soul 100 list. His recent work has drawn acclaim from The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and Variety. Originally from Washington, D.C., Gunn now resides in New York City.

Tying it together is a phenomenal score by Gary Gunn 

- The Guardian

 

Gary Gunn’s gorgeous score 

- New York Times

 

Gunn's symphonic music swells and swirls giving a heroic kind of dignity  

- Variety

 

Gary Gunn's alternately delicate and lush musical score lends lyricism to scenes that often burst with barely contained anger and violence  

- Washington Post

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Another standout element worth celebrating is Gary Gunn’s beautiful score. His work is really unique and vibrant  

- Medium

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Sundance Grand Jury Prize Winning Film: A Thousand and One

Focus Features / Directed by AV Rockwell

Composer: Gary Gunn

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Multimedia Installation: Human Soundscapes: Musical Portraits

Exhibited At FoST (NYC) and Summit Air (Utah)

Director & Composer: Gary Gunn

Installation: Ascend. A Night Pavillion

Exhibited at TED Conference

Composer & Sound Designer: Gary Gunn

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Peabody Winning TV Series: David  Makes Man

Created by: Tarell McCraney (Moonlight)

Executive Producers: Oprah, Michael B. Jordan, Dee Harris-Lawrence

Composer: Gary Gunn

Installation: Dormouse 

Exhibited at the 14th Factory 

Chief Composer & Musical Director: Gary Gunn

All Projects
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