From Vin Diesel surfing on a dirtbike to a collaboration between Charlie Kaufman and DreamWorks Animation, Robert Lydecker’s work is broad and varied. He is an Emmy-winning, classically-trained composer who grew up playing drums in punk bands.
Credits include DreamWork’s Orion and the Dark (written by Charlie Kaufman), the Emmy-winning score for Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight (starring Jack Black), xXx: Return of Xander Cage (Paramount), Iron Fist season two (Marvel/Netflix) and Lethal Weapon seasons two and three (Fox / Warner Bros). Lydecker co-scored two seasons of ABC’s Designated Survivor alongside Sean Callery, and co-scored four seasons of the Fox series Sleepy Hollow with Brian Tyler, earning an Emmy Nomination for their main title theme.
Some of Lydecker’s other credits include composing additional music for Avengers II: Age of Ultron, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Iron Man 3, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, The Expendables II & III, Olympus Has Fallen, SMITE, Rogue Company, and The Crazies. He scored New Deal studio’s VR experience, Kaiju Fury, set in the world of Pacific Rim and created the music for the Wonder Buffalo VR experience which debuted at Sundance and SXSW.
His independent work is varied as well. In 2020 he composed a work for the chamber ensemble FiveByFive in collaboration with photographer James Welling and the George Eastman Museum, and he’s collaborated on a variety of indie film projects, including “Love Simply,” a rom-com shot, produced and distributed entirely in China, and “And Then There Was Eve,” a drama exploring motifs of gender, mental health and love. His latest indie project, “A Cow In The Sky,” is based on true events surrounding the murder of Mulegata Seraw and the take-down of the White Aryan Resistance. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and stars the Grammy-nominated Aminé.
Alongside his work in music and film, Lydecker has stayed active with other interests. He’s spent many years cooking and serving free food in downtown LA at Pershing Square, Skid Row, and Exposition Park, and he worked with friends and neighbors to turn an abandoned lot in East Hollywood into a community garden. He also volunteers at state parks in Los Angeles to restore habitat with native plants, and hopes he can continue doing positive work through music, film, and personal time.