Mar 6, 2020
Matthew has created the score for the BBC’s new adaption of Malorie Blackman’s 2001 novel, ‘Noughts + Crosses’. The story is set in an alternate world in which issues of race have been flipped, meaning that white people are oppressed by the black ruling class. Starring Jack Rowan, Masali Baduza, Paterson Joseph and Stormzy, the...
Mar 6, 2020
The curtains are falling, her foot is bleeding, and she’s starting to feel a little overwhelmed. But all will be well in the world once she finds that missing shoe. Matthew in once again back working with London’s Royal Court Theatre. This time he has composed the music for E.V. Crowe’s new production, ‘Shoe Lady’....
Mar 6, 2020
Matthew has composed the soundtrack to Japanese fashion house Issey Miyake’s Autumn/Winter 2020 collection presentation, ‘Making Speaking, Speaking Making’. The show, directed by Daniel Ezralow, took place on March first at the Lycée Carnot as part of Paris Fashion week. The presentation was, “an expression of the words and feelings derived naturally from the process...
Jan 30, 2020
In free performances across the Barbican’s Beethoven Weekender, Matthew Herbert turns Beethoven on his head via electronic installation and flashmob in a 21st-century response to one of his symphonies. Free and unticketed. 1st & 2nd Feb 2020. Find out more
Nov 26, 2019
Matthew has created a new work entitled ‘Speaker’. The installation piece is being premiered at Eufonia Festival in Berlin: Speaker An Adam’s T5V monitor wants to talk to you about itself. A new installation by matthew herbert
Nov 21, 2019
Matthew has written the music for a new documentary film The Cave from Oscar nominated director Feras Fayyad (Last Men in Aleppo): For besieged civilians, hope and safety lie underground inside the subterranean hospital known as the Cave, where pediatrician and managing physician Dr. Amani Ballour and her colleagues Samaher and Dr. Alaa have claimed their...
Sep 12, 2019
Matthew has composed the music for a new Sky original TV series Temple starring Mark Strong, Carice van Houten and Daniel Mays. Episode one airs on Sky One on Sept 13th with the entire series streamable on the same day.
Apr 11, 2019
The World Health Organisation has described noise pollution as an ‘underestimated threat’. At the same time we are entering an exciting era where sound is being used to unlock new frontiers, from art and music to data services and medicine. In Matthew Herbert’s World of Sound, the pioneering composer and director of the New Radiophonic...
Mar 6, 2019
Matthew has composed the soundtrack for the new film from Sebastian Lelio ‘Gloria Bell’ starring Julianne Moore. The soundtrack is released on 8th March. Listen Here
Feb 20, 2019
Matthew’s Brexit Big Band will perform two launch concerts at London’s Royal Court Theatre on March 29th 2019 – the day the UK is due to leave the EU and the day the bands album THE STATE BETWEEN US will be released. Tickets are now available Further concerts have also been confirmed including Gilles Peterson’s...
Jan 15, 2019
The State Between Us is an album that contemplates what it means to be British in 2018. Its sixteen tracks reflect a journey on foot across Great Britain (and beyond) imagined in beautifully elegiac melodies carefully woven with site-specific recordings. World War II planes in flight rub against a Ford Fiesta being broken down into...
Jan 2, 2019
“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...
