Taylor Joshua Rankin (b. 1991) is a filmmaker and composer of new music based in Los Angeles, CA. Taylor’s music exists within the trend of contemporary classical composers who draw upon a depth of influences such as minimalism, avant-rock, experimental, micropolyphony, and tintinnabulation, inside of and extending beyond the world of new music. Taylor’s joy in making music is to express a sort of emotional zenith with sounds of a dense and undulating world, existing in a space between gossamer and cacophony. Taylor's music has been performed by ensembles across the United States, such as Grammy award winning ensemble Third Coast Percussion, The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, and Friction Quartet. Taylor's music has been programmed by the Current's concert series in Chicago, the Eastman School of Music, New York University, University of Michigan, University of North Florida, University of Kentucky School of Music, Pittsburg State University, Denison University, Composers Inc., the Presidio Club, The San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra, Cal State East Bay, and PoP Up Magazine’s 2018 season in DC, NY, LA, Portland, Toronto, and Chicago, as well as the 2016, 2017, and 2018 Hot Air Music Festivals. Taylor’s newest album Sun, Will Grow (part contemporary-classical, part ambient, part electronic) mixes complex acoustic writing of varied instrumentation while pushing the electronic and sonic capabilities of the modern recording studio.