As a film composer, Hayes has scored more than 60 films, documentaries, commercials, and TV specials, many of which have received awards, including the prestigious Emmy. In 2002, Hayes scored the feature documentary America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero, which aired on PBS as part of its 9/11 memorial programming.

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Music samples

Caravan of Dreams: Duration: 1.13
Time Passing: Duration: 0.39
LMDC: Duration: 1.22
Newman: Duration: 1.34
Tender Ethereal: Duration: 1.53
Scary Scratchy: Duration: 0.54
Naki, 1st movement: Duration: 1.21
For the Children: Duration: 2.07
Lover to You: Duration: 2.01
Time Groove: Duration: 0.56
World Trade Center Memorial: Duration: 2.34
Ninoesque: Duration: 2.10
Dark Groove: Duration: 1.38
2 B: Duration: 1.57
Remembering the Dead: Duration: 2.13
Welcome to the Water Planet: Duration: 1.13

Other notable films for which Hayes has composed scores include:

Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook
Reflections, A Portrait of Roy Lichtenstein
George Marshal and the American Century
Philip Johnson, Diary of an Eccentric Architect
The Berlin Airlift
Russia Facing the Future
The Paris Review…Early Chapters
Brotherhood of Hate
Frank Stella Imaginary Places
Welcome to the Water Planet with James Rosenquist
Billy Collins, On The Road with the Poet Laureate.
How a Tug Boat Works
Tilting at Space, The Work of Jan Groover
The Little Death
How a Car is Built
Meeting With A Killer
Hunting For Oil
Intimate Portraits - Christine Lahti
Wildlife Emergency
Tokyo Brush Strokes, Roy Lichtenstein