topu lyo

film composer / producer /  cellist

Los Angeles - New York City - Tokyo




topulyo@gmail.com



Topu Lyo ︎  ︎

korean american
i like to document and collaborate.
love experimenting with instrumental texture and rhythm. 

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  ︎  Film Scoring. 13 year residency at NYC’s Apotheke. 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NO LONGER ACTIVE ** Salenta + Topu      ︎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
produced: topu lyo
mixed by: topu lyo
mastered by: nolan thies
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