Ethan Rose is an artist and composer who has written original scores and contributed music to numerous dramatic and documentary films. Several pieces of music from his first full length album, Ceiling Songs, were featured in Gus Van Sant's Paranoid Park (2007). In the ensuing decades Rose has composed music for a number of award-winning films including Urszula Antoniak's Nothing Personal (2009) and Kelly Reichardt's Showing Up (2022). Alongside his musical work, Rose creates and exhibits sound-art installations and runs Parallel, a sound-focused design studio.