As Composer

As film composer, Hayes has scored more than 70 films, documentaries, commercials, animations, and TV specials, many of which have received awards, including the prestigious Emmy (George Marshall and the American Century) and two Tellys, (The Nature of Modernism: E. Stewart Williams; and William Krisel, Architect). Other notable films Hayes has scored include: In Search of Resolution (2023), The American Nurse (2014), the PBS films America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero (2002); Return to Ground Zero (2006); Building Alaska (2010); and Alaska, the World, and Wally Hickel (2013); luminary artists Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella, Grace Hartigan, James Rosenquist and Milton Glaser; architects Philip Johnson, Donald Wexler; and United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins; The Berlin Airlift, and Russia’s future for the new millennium. In 1988 using the Synclavier - the first available DAW (digital audio workstation) Hayes scored The Little Death, the first HD (high definition) computer animation created by SONY and Symbolics.