topu lyo

film composer / producer /  cellist

Los Angeles - New York City




topulyo@gmail.com



Topu Lyo ︎  ︎

korean american
i like to document and collaborate.
love experimenting with instrumental texture and rhythm. 13 year residency at Apotheke w Live Footage + film scoring.

composed music for:

emmy nominated netflix: 3 part docuseries ‘jeen-yuhs’ (kanye trilogy) 

HULU 4-part series ‘After Baywatch: Moment In The Sun”

NAACP Image award winning  muhammad ali the people’s champ.

Beam Me Up Sulu

In production: Tim Duncan Boy From St. Croix (Austin Film Festival 10/25), Priceless by Drew Lightfoot.


American Artist “The Arroyo Seco (2022) with William Alexander
https://vimeo.com/706315821

commercial work:
bmw/volvo/ragnbone/monster energy
HBO/BET/NETFLIX/SHOWTIME
REEL


toured all through EU, North America, Asia


Performances w/ Caroline Polachek at Moma,
Pioneer Works.

Performances w/ Emily Wells at Brooklyn Summer Stage,
Los Angeles Natural History Museum, Guggenheim Museum

Henry Threadgill 3 for 3 cello, 2 basses and bass clarinet
Live Footage  ︎  Netflix, HBO, HULU, VICE, BET etc

since 2006




NO LONGER ACTIVE ** Salenta + Topu      ︎



credits

released February 5, 2021

all songs written by Salenta and Topu
Moon Set, Moon Rise



New Indiana 




new album on youtube. written drawn and stop motion by new indiana

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riEKZBkuYWI&t=98s