Biography

Silas Hite is an Emmy-winning American composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist known for his genre-bending scores for film, television, documentaries, commercials, and video games. His music has appeared in projects for ABC, NBC, HBO, FOX, CNN, The BBC, Pixar, Disney, Warner Brothers, Sony, Netflix, EA Games, Ubisoft, and Google including Chef’s Table, Street Food: Asia, The Big Brunch, My Happy Place, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, Mater’s Tall Tales, The Sims 4, Tetris mobile, The Simpsons Game, and many more. Beginning his career in 2003 as an in-house composer at Mutato Muzika alongside his uncles Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh, Hite developed a distinctive style blending orchestral scoring, experimental sound design, vintage instruments, and world instrumentation. Since 2010 he has been a successful freelance-composer continuing to score films, TV shows, ads, video games, and also making many albums. Hite releases genre-hopping instrumental albums under his own name and Americana songs as The Satin Cowboy & The Seven Deadly Sins. In addition to traditional scoring projects, Hite has collaborated with choreographers, museums, and contemporary artists, with projects appearing at The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The New York Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. One of his pen and ink drawings was purchased by The Getty Museum for their permanent collection.
- IMDb mini biography by: Silas Hite