Commissioned Sound Design and Selected Works
( ( studio@tonycruise.com ) )


Tony Cruise
Sound Designer, Composer
Sr. Systems Engineer
(b) Baltimore, MD, US
📍Vancouver, BC, CAN
Tony Cruise is a global sound artist who cultivates ideas for musicians, institutions, and brands - including scoring film, sound and instrument design and consulting as well as the development of special projects such as software, books, installations and limited-run merchandising. 

In 2020 he was one of twelve global artists selected to attend the Factory Berlin/Beats by Dre/Sonar +D Artist-in-Residence program. He has since composed for London Fashion Week and shortlisted for the 2021 Soho House Design Prize. In 2022, he will design instruments as a Pioneer Works music resident.

Tony moonlights as a Senior Systems Engineer for the likes of Aritzia LP, Abercrombie & Fitch, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, supporting space instruments such as the TDRS-M Satellite Constellation and the recently launched Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.







Official Music VideoCommas
Directed by Offbucks Films
Prince George’s County, MD, US
2min.
2026








Production
Sampling
Drum Sequencing
Arrangement
Client: Saint Frère
Experimental Club Solutions Vol. 1
Los Angeles, CA, US
2026

Produced by Tony Kill & Saint Frère






Live PerformanceSilhouette (vhs @ trounce alley)
Vancouver, BC, CAN
2min.
2026






Live PerformanceSilhouette (vhs @ trounce alley)
Vancouver, BC, CAN
2min.
2026








Featured Composition

The Sweet East
Dir. Sean Price Williams
2023

Debuted at Cannes Film Festival
Featured on Apple TV






‘Award
Soho House Design Prize Shortlist
‘The Will to Change’
2021

Ths project proposal for Design Prize 2021, The Will To Change, is a 360° projection-mapped, site-specific greenhouse and sound sculpture.  

The concept takes its name from Bell Hooks’ book of the same name, which urges the reader ‘to move against alienation and separation’. Sensors within the space will measure the biometric attributes of both the Soho House members and the flora surrounding it: temperature, CO2 emissions, movement, pressure applied to surfaces, and speech/volume. This will create a tapestry of sound and light, with individuals moving through the space becoming aware of how one’s presence and behaviour impacts the experience for others.





Live Performance
Pioneer Works
Ace Hotel Brooklyn
Brooklyn, NY, US

Modular Opera
Demonstrated a batch of handmade electronic instruments in a performance of selected scenes from the modular opera, 'Smellin of Thunderbird & Bodies in Heat.'
approx. 30min.
2026






Feature
‘Under’ Slow Bounce Bootleg
Featured on Soulection #452
2020






Artist Talk/Lecture
University of Toronto
African-American Art and Culture Complex
1998

Operating System For The Redesign of Sonic Reality: Alternative Approaches to Contemporary Design - A Discussion + Workshop with interdisciplinary artist Tony Cruise moderated by Jamil Nasim apart of our Hip Hop Education, Producers’ Circle program in partnership with University of Toronto, Hart House.






Film Screening

Magic Ring
Dir. Alex Ashe
Short Film
2022

Premiered at New York Film Festival
Premiered at Urban World Film Festival
Vimeo Staff Pick







Club Set

factory berlin, sonar +D, beats by dre
berlin, germany
120min.
2026





i 🖤 gatekeeping ⟨club* music⟩ | tony_kill.mix
club set
domain archives
los angeles, california, us
approx. 60min.
2026

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Sound Design
Film Score
Client: Sasha Samsonova
Fade2Fit by Teyana Taylor
2018






Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Magic Ring
Dir. Alex Ashe
Short Film
2022

Premiered at New York Film Festival
Premiered at Urban World Film Festival
Vimeo Staff Pick







Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Highsnobiety
Salvatore Ferragamo
2022







Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Sasha Samsonova
Kendall & Kylie Drop One
2017







Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Missguided, Sasha Samsonova
Missguided P+L Campaign
2017








Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Kendall Jenner, Kylie Jenner, Sasha Samsonova
Kendall & Kylie Drop Two
2018








Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Kendall Jenner, Sasha Samsonova
2018








Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Sasha Samsonova
2019








Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: Tétu
2021








Production
Sonic Direction
Drum Sequencing
Arrangement
Keys
Client: James Tillman
Silk Noise Theory (Album)
2016








Production
Sonic Direction
Drum Sequencing
Arrangement
Keys
Client: James Tillman
Silk Noise Theory (Album)
2016








Production
Sonic Direction
Drum Sequencing
Arrangement
Keys
Client: James Tillman
Silk Noise Theory (Album)
2016








Production
Sonic Direction
Drum Sequencing
Arrangement
Keys
Client: James Tillman
Silk Noise Theory (Album)
2016






Production
Drum Sequencing
Arrangement
Client: ESHOVO
2021








ProductionClient: Sir E.U.
2018








Art Direction
Client: jessc.x
[unreleased]







Production
Sampling
Drum Sequencing
Client: Sir E.U.
Released by Black Techno Matters
2026








Production
Sampling
Drum Sequencing
Addtl. Vocals
C things (as they happen)
ESHOVO
Studio Gaga
Chicago, IL. USA
2022







Production
Sampling
Keys

No Disrespect · ESHOVO · Tony Kill
Fate By Delivery
℗ Et Cetera Labs
2024






Live Performance
Opening Act
Client: Julian Casablancas + The Voidz
Tyranny Tour
Opening Act






InstallationDark Spring, Factory Berlin
Berlin, Germany

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Album
Spume
2023






Fashion Film Score
Sound Design
Client: NDA
2022






Systems Administrator
Client: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
TDRS-M
2017










Et Cetera Labs ( ( 2026 ) )_