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Jordan Dykstra

Jordan Dykstra is an American film music and chamber music composer and violist from Sioux City, Iowa.

Academically, Dykstra studied composition at CalArts with Michael Pisaro, Wolfgang von Schweinitz, and Ulrich Krieger; privately with Daníel Bjarnason, Chiyoko Szlavnics, and at Wesleyan University with Alvin Lucier. Dykstra contributed to the score of the 2017 psychological thriller/horror film It Comes At Night (dir. Trey Edward Shults), which received the NYT Critic's Pick from A.O. Scott, film critic at the New York Times. He has also worked as a composer on film music for Gus Van Sant's 2011 film Restless, Penny Lane's 2019 documentary Hail Satan?, and the 2019 narrative film Blow the Man Down which was directed by Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy. His composition work with Frontline documentaries includes Mstyslav Chernov's 20 Days in Mariupol (which won the Audience Award for Best World Cinema Documentary at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and won the 2024 Academy Award for Best Documentary) and Plot to Overturn The Election, while his work as a music consultant includes the 2023 Peabody Award Winning Michael Flynn's Holy War, American Insurrection, and the Documenting Hate series. Dykstra was a session violist and string director for Dirty Projectors' 2009 album Bitte Orca and has performed at venues worldwide including MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, the RISD Museum in Providence, RI, the Portland Art Museum in Portland, OR, Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Iceland, and at the Syros Institute in Ano Syros, Greece. In 2024 Dykstra received a BMI Award for his score for 20 Days in Mariupol. In 2025 he scored the documentary Holding Liat (dir. Brandon Kramer and co-produced by Darren Aronofsky), which won the Berlinale Documentary Award at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival.

While in Val Verde, CA in 2015, Jordan Dykstra founded Editions Verde, which publishes art and musical objects.

Discography

as Jordan Dykstra (film composer, performer, audio recording engineer, music consultant)

as Jordan Dykstra

as DASH!

  • TSS REMIXES - digital download card (Self released, March 2013)
  • Takes Swift Strides - digital download card (Marriage Records, August 2009)
  • Live @ Hush feat. What Would Jesus Dub? - digital download (Magic Goat Music, January 2009)
  • Is Heterogeneous - CD-R (The Prescott Family, August 2008)
  • Gets Unrecovered (No. 0126 e f, Op. 01) - CD-R (The Prescott Family, December 2007)
  • The Sioux City Symphony - digital download (The Prescott Family, November 2007)

with Alvin Lucier

with Koen Nutters

  • In Better Shape Than You Found Me - CD (elsewhere, October 2021)

with Beau Breather

with Tom Blood and Jordan Dykstra

  • Seems Like It Means Something Else from EXP3 (Editions Verde, March 2016)
  • Preludes (November 2014)*
  • Greatest Hits Live: Volume One (May 2012)*
  • A June Afternoon (June 2011)*
  • The Act (June 2011)*

<nowiki>*</nowiki>Digital EPs

with The Righteous and Harmonious Fists

Composing Credits

Film Credits

Album Credits

  • Identify — by Caspar Sonnet — composer and viola, LP (Marriage Records, 2013)
  • Belfast Sessions — by Davis Hooker — string trio director, composer, and viola, LP (self-released, 2012)
  • Bitte Orca — by Dirty Projectors — string quartet director and viola, LP (Domino Recording Company, 2009)
  • Stillness Is The Move — by Dirty Projectors —string quartet director and viola, LP (Domino Recording Company, 2009)
  • False Face Society — by Valet — composer and viola, LP (Mexican Summer, 2009)
  • Malaikat Dan Singa — by Arrington de Dionyso — composer and viola, LP and CD (K Records, 2009)
  • Caffeine, Alcohol, Sunshine, Money — by Jared Mees and the Grown Children — composer, string director, and viola, CD (Tender Loving Empire, 2008)

Dance Credits

  • Like a Sun that Pours Forth Light but Never Warmth — by Allie Hankins — composer, string quintet director, and viola, dance performance (October, 2014)

Other projects

  • Rob Walmart - an improvised electronic music collective

Notes

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