Tyler Sanders, originally from Arkansas, is a Californian based musician and composer and is a graduate of Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) and California Institute of the Arts where he studied piano, music composition, and earned a BA in Music Industry and a Masters in Composition and Experimental Sound Practices respectively. As an instrumentalist, Tyler plays a wide range of instruments, however, out of all of them, the trumpet, alto sax and piano are most represented in his works. As a composer, his works cover many genres of music and for various art forms including music for dance, film, music theater, opera, chamber instrumental/vocal music and some solo works. His biggest works to date are his Concerto for Soprano Saxophone "Unfortunate Fortunes" and “Aiky Pathways to Light,” a dance production by his friend and choreographer Robert Kelley. Today, his work is really starting to focus a lot on the audience’s experience. Strictly in terms of his experimental music, Tyler is interested in exploring relationships and that can be any type of relationship: between people, objects, anything that can be implicated with another whether realistically or theoretically. This work can vary on scale from large electroacoustic works to smaller intimate pieces of music. Overall, Tyler is aiming to write music that creates a transcendental experience starting with establishing and rooting his audience in a sense of reality, altering that sense and transition between the established reality and altered sense in a way that feels timeless through the music in combination with the space or setting that it is performed in.