"A Symphony Of Noise - Matthew Herbert's Revolution" protagonist.
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 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 Björk’s. He has had work commissioned by the Royal Opera House, the BBC and Deutsche Gramophon amongst many others but he is best known for working with sound, turning ordinary or so-called found sound in to 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 New BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
