Dec 1, 2018
Matthew launched the Brexit Big Band project on 29th March 2017, the same day that Theresa May triggered article 50 giving the UK a two year countdown to the day it is due to leave the EU. Since then then project has involved over a thousand contributors including musicians and singers from across Europe at...
Nov 23, 2018
Matthew brings the Brexit Big Band to Rome for the final recording session of the project which will involve rehearsing and recording with a band of local musicians and a choir. The band will then perform a concert at the Auditorium Parco della Musica on Sunday 25th November. More information and tickets
Sep 17, 2018
Matthew’s latest album, which is in fact a book is available now. In the last hundred years – between the invention of the microphone and the computer – music has undergone a profound revolution. No longer confined to specifically designed instruments, we can now make music out of anything. Why use a guitar when you...
Aug 31, 2018
Matthew is undertaking a series of workshops in Luzern, Switzerland to create a new production of Gustav Mahler’s song cycle ‘Kindertotenlieder’ alongside director Benedikt Von Peter. More information and tickets.
Jun 25, 2018
“What brought the audience cheering to its feet at the end… was the metaphor for human solidarity presented by all those joyous musicians” the Telegraph, 4/5 “A more gloomy, depressed, bleak attitude than his own could scarcely be imagined.” Melanie Phillips, the Times www.brexitbigband.eu The Brexit Big Band is the controversial, ever-evolving musical collaboration created...
May 10, 2018
In a new audio-visual project in response to Brexit, pioneering electronic musician Matthew Herbert presents an exclusive commission for Splice in collaboration with media artist Christopher Thomas Allen (The Light Surgeons). The performance will examine the things we will lose as a result of Brexit and it’s impact, by exploring the themes of scale and...
May 1, 2018
Matthew has created the music for the new film ‘Disobedience’ from director Sebastian Lelio to continue their partnership following the oscar winning ‘A Fantastic Woman’ earlier this year. Disobedience has already been released in the US and will be released in UK and Europe later this year.
Apr 9, 2018
Matthew worked with multi-instrumentalist and sound explorer Cosmo Sheldrake on the creation of his debut album. Watch the video for ‘Wriggle’…
Mar 6, 2018
Experience the work of Andreas Gursky from a new perspective, with live music by producer, writer and pioneering electronic musician Matthew Herbert. His latest London Sinfonietta commission more, more, moreresponds to Gursky’s Untitled XIII (2002), a fascinating and un-nerving photograph of a landfill site in Chimalhuacán, Mexico City. A comment on endless consumerism, more, more, more will be made from the...
Mar 5, 2018
The Chilean film directed by Sebastian Lelio for which Matthew Herbert composed the music has won the Oscar for best foreign language film at 2018′s awards ceremony. More…
Feb 14, 2018
Matthew has written the music for a new play ‘Gundog’ that has just opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London which The Guardian describe as “a compelling, unforgiving glimpse into rural life, and one in which there is not a single fluffy, gambolling lamb in sight” read the full review here. More info and...
Jan 18, 2018
Exploring the ethical front lines of sound. Matthew Herbert is joined by guests to explore the ethical front lines of sound. What is it acceptable to record and listen to? With live music and recordings, including some made in Manhattan on 11 September 2001. Part of a Season of Sound, celebrating the Library’s sound archive. More...
