Angela Tisner is a music composer for film with a unique emphasis on ethnomusicology.

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She graduated with honours from La Sorbonne University in Art History and Film, and later earned an MA in Contemporary Culture and Ethnomusicology. Her thesis focused on the Alan Lomax early recordings: "Hard Hitting Songs For Hard-Hit People: How Music Shapes Survival."

In 2021, she received the globally distinguished Fulbright Scholarship and relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she specialised in Film Scoring.

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​Angela has worked for Bleeding Fingers Music and composed music for artistic and audiovisual projects such as Feel the Sound (Barbican Centre), Island in the Sound (Gagosian, Old Carpet Factory). Angela's work has been selected for several international film festivals, such as the Netherlands Film Festival and the Espinho Film Fest.

 

Her work weaves together film scoring, sound art, and the preservation of endangered musical traditions around the world.