derek muro is a composer & producer exploring the musical collective unconscious as it affects emotion, cultural memory and perception, seeking to increase human awareness and connection.  

 

Beginning his career from an art space in Bushwick while working weekend shifts as a church organist, he is now an award-winning composer for film and interactive media, having a diverse career that has wound through film & game studios, performances at BAM and the Yale Institute for Music Theatre.

 

His debut album “cues” [toucan sounds, 2021] developed from a fluid blend of composition and improvisation integrating saxophone, keyboard instruments and found sound with live electronics - combining strains of ambient, new classical, drone & balearic music with lo-fi minimalism.

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The Dolby Atmos concept album “chronopolis” [Acrylic, 2023] followed, embracing themes of time, power and social technology through a blend of electronica, new classical and ambient jazz.  It was featured on the Spotify Editorial Playlists Fresh Finds, Genre Glitch, Fresh Finds Experimental & Fresh Finds Jazz, and followed with a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn to a sold-out audience.

 

2023 also saw him score the SXSW Audience Award-winning documentary Geoff McFetridge: Drawing A Life about the introspective and consistently innovative visual artist.

 

Raised in a musical family (his mother a church music director, his father pioneering electronic musician Don Muro) a world of disparate genres existed all under the same roof, ultimately setting him on a journey through the Juilliard Pre-College program and a composition degree at Manhattan School of Music. After journeying through various DIY circles in Brooklyn, a stint in Los Angeles honing the craft of scoring to picture ultimately led to relocating there.