Taylor Joshua Rankin (b. 1991) is a filmmaker and composer of new music based in Los Angeles, California. 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 Joshua Rankin is a 2025 Macdowell Fellowship recipient, and was recently named a finalist for the 2024 Eighth Blackbird Creative Lab and for the 2024 I-Park Composers + Musicians Collaborative Residency with Hub New Music.

Taylor finds a strong harmony between the composition process and the process of filmmaking. His collaborators include professionals that have worked on projects for Lucasfilm, Pixar, Disney, Universal, Paramount, Marvel, and the independent film scenes in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. Taylor’s films have garnered a wide array of acclaim and festival praise.