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Cesar Davila-Irizarry

  • Sound Department
  • Music Department
  • Composer
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César Dávila-Irizarry is an award-winning Puerto Rican composer based in Los Angeles, California. He is known for creating powerful sonic experiences that blur the line between music and sound design. César uses electronic and acoustic sounds to enhance storytelling for film, TV, art, and dance. The Huffington Post says his music style "speaks to us on an unconscious level." César is known best as the main composer of the theme song of Ryan Murphy's "American Horror Story" (2011 - present) and the sole composer of the theme song of the Ron Howard and Brian Grazer docu-series "Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel" (2021 - present). He has also written music for the award-winning indie director Joel Benjamin, the award-winning Butoh dancer Yokko, and the worldwide architecture firm ARUP.

What attracted César to the world of film music is his passion for storytelling and artistic expression. In addition, he draws inspiration from mainstream and experimental music and the chaotic tropical soundscapes he grew up listening to in his homeland. César is the proud recipient of 9 BMI music awards.
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      • 1 win total

    Known for

    American Horror Story (2011)
    American Horror Story
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Music Department
    American Horror Stories (2021)
    American Horror Stories
    6.3
    TV Series
    • Music Department(as César Dávila-Irizarry)
    Jorge Luna, Keelie Sheridan, Yokko, and Otto Luna-Caratini in Planet b234 (2021)
    Planet b234
    8.2
    • Sound Department
    • 2021
    Big Baboon House
    9.0
    TV Series
    • Sound Department

    Credits

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    Sound Department



    • Big Baboon House
      • sound effects editor
      • Released
      • TV Series
      • 2012



    • Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (2021)
      Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
      6.5
      TV Mini Series
      • main title theme
      • 2021
    • Jorge Luna, Keelie Sheridan, Yokko, and Otto Luna-Caratini in Planet b234 (2021)
      Planet b234
      8.2
      • dialogue editor
      • sound effects editor
      • supervising sound editor
      • 2021
    • Relax, It's Probably Just a Parasite (2018)
      Relax, It's Probably Just a Parasite
      Short
      • sound editor
      • 2018
    • Bel Powley and Jonah Hauer-King in Ashes in the Snow (2018)
      Ashes in the Snow
      6.6
      • sound effects editor
      • 2018
    • Shatterbox (2018)
      Shatterbox
      5.9
      TV Series
      • sound designer (as César Dávila-Irizarry)
      • 2018
    • Yamasong: March of the Hollows (2017)
      Yamasong: March of the Hollows
      5.1
      • dialogue editor
      • sound effects editor
      • 2017
    • 4 or More (2017)
      4 or More
      Short
      • sound designer
      • 2017
    • The Price (2017)
      The Price
      5.1
      • sound effects editor
      • 2017
    • Bill Pullman in The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)
      The Ballad of Lefty Brown
      6.3
      • sound effects editor
      • 2017
    • Asa Soltan Rahmati, Reza Farahan, and Golnesa Gharachedaghi in Shahs of Sunset (2012)
      Shahs of Sunset
      5.0
      TV Series
      • dialogue editor
      • 2013–2016
    • Nev Schulman and Kamie Crawford in Catfish: The TV Show (2012)
      Catfish: The TV Show
      7.1
      TV Series
      • sound effects editor
      • dialogue editor
      • 2013–2016
    • My Friend's Rubber Ducky (2016)
      My Friend's Rubber Ducky
      8.6
      • re-recording mixer
      • sound designer
      • 2016
    • Jane Lynch in Hollywood Game Night (2013)
      Hollywood Game Night
      7.3
      TV Series
      • dialogue editor
      • 2013–2016
    • Newlyweds: The First Year (2012)
      Newlyweds: The First Year
      7.2
      TV Series
      • dialogue editor
      • sound effects editor
      • 2015–2016
    • Guy Fieri in Guy's Grocery Games (2013)
      Guy's Grocery Games
      6.7
      TV Series
      • dialogue editor
      • sound effects editor
      • 2013–2015

    Music Department



    • American Horror Story (2011)
      American Horror Story
      7.9
      TV Series
      • theme song written by
      • composer: theme music
      • writer: theme song (as César Dávila-Irizarry, as César Dávila-Irizarry, as César Dávila-Irizarry) ...
      • 2011–2024
    • Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022)
      Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • main title theme
      • 2022
    • American Horror Stories (2021)
      American Horror Stories
      6.3
      TV Series
      • theme song written by (as César Dávila-Irizarry)
      • 2021–2022
    • Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (2021)
      Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
      6.5
      TV Mini Series
      • main title theme
      • 2021
    • Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)
      Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
      6.0
      TV Mini Series
      • main title theme (as César Dávila-Irizarry)
      • 2021

    Composer



    • No One (2021)
      No One
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Jorge Luna, Keelie Sheridan, Yokko, and Otto Luna-Caratini in Planet b234 (2021)
      Planet b234
      8.2
      • Composer
      • 2021
    • Relax, It's Probably Just a Parasite (2018)
      Relax, It's Probably Just a Parasite
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2018
    • 4 or More (2017)
      4 or More
      Short
      • Composer
      • 2017

    Personal details

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    • Alternative name
      • César Dávila-Irizarry

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    • Race / Ethnicity
      • Hispanic / Latino / Latina / Latine
    • Nationality / Religious or Ethnic identity
      • Puerto Rican

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