Tyler Gibbons is a composer and musician living in Southern Vermont. He studied music at Harvard University, and is a co-founder of Red Heart the Ticker, an indie-folk band that has appeared on NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, and has garnered songwriting praise from The New York Times, Paste Magazine, and Pitchfork Media, among others.

Gibbons has scored numerous feature films, feature-length documentaries, shorts, non-profit videos, and art films. Feature lengths include The Forest for the Trees (Red Bird Films, official selection, Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, aired on the Sundance Channel), Senses of Place (Temple Films, winner, Silver Remi Award, WorldFest Houston), and An Apology to the Dead (Vernacular Films/Launch Pad Pictures, official selection, Microcinema Festival). Non-profit work includes music for the Student Conservation Association, the Read to Me Program, and the River Gallery Art School. Short video includes work for Begin Smart Books, and a chapter of The Odyssey epic (Red Bird Films).

Gibbons creates music almost exclusively with real instruments/real sounds, from strings, guitars, and organs to tin cans, antique dulcimers and harps, and glockenspiels. Please see www.mildewandstar.com for music clips and more information.