Matthew Herbert
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Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose range of innovative works extends from more than 30 albums (including the much-celebrated Bodily Functions) to scores for Oscar-winning films (A Fantastic Woman) as well as music for the National Theatre, Broadway, TV series (Noughts and Crosses, The Responder for BBC), games (Lego) and radio. He has performed solo, as a DJ and with various musicians including his own 21 piece big band and 100 piece choir all round the world from the Sydney opera house, to the Hollywood Bowl and created installations, plays and opera.
He has remixed iconic artists such as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg and Mahler and been a long time collaborator of Bjork’s. He has had work commissioned by the Royal Opera House, the BBC and Deutsche Grammophon amongst many others but he is best known for working with sound, turning ordinary or so-called found sound into electronic music. His most celebrated work ONE PIG followed the life of a pig from birth to plate and beyond. His debut book The Music was published by Unbound in 2018 and he is the creative director of The Radiophonic Institute.
In 2021 a special documentary by Enrique Sanchez Lansch about Matthew and listening entitled A Symphony Of Noise was released, shot over 10 years the film follows Matthew through 20 or so of his projects as an electronic musician, artist and sound activist. He also recently completed his PhD about the ethics of composing with sound and his next experimental project is based on hearing more than one billion sounds.