Matthew Herbert

Matthew Herbert is an award-winning composer, artist, producer and writer whose range of 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 and radio. He has performed solo, as a DJ and with his own 21 piece big band and 100 piece choir all round the world, and created installations, plays and opera.

He has remixed artists such as Quincy Jones, Ennio Morricone, Serge Gainsbourg and Mahler and been a long time collaborator of Björk’s. 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 creative director of The Radiophonic Institute.

In 2021 a documentary by Enrique Sanchez Lansch, A Symphony Of Noise, was released. He recently completed his PhD about the ethics of composing with sound and his next project is based on hearing more than one billion sounds.