Acclaimed and award-winning songwriting & production for your project. Bespoke creations that evoke your chosen aesthetic and communicate exactly what you want to say to your audience. Matt can draw on his 25 years of professional experience help you with any stage of your musical project. from developing the initial ideas, right through to recording, editing, mixing and mastering. Also a proficient multi-instrumentalist, Matt is proficient on a number of instruments including Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums, Keys, Turntables, Samplers & numerous genre-specific instruments such as lap steel, mandolin or resonator guitar. This provides him with a really broad palette of sounds from which to draw in order to create the exact sound you’re looking for. A fan of most genres, Matt has particularly extensive experience with Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, RnB, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and Electronica; but his great strength is identifying those stylistic cues and motifs from your reference tracks, and incorporating them into your project in order to evoke the exact mood you're seeking. Additionally, he has extensive experience teaching these topics to others, including a catalog of literally hundreds of ‘How-To’ articles. This strength as a communicator means he’s particularly adept at working with you to quickly understand exactly what it is you need. All projects are considered, please check out my portfolio and feel free to get in touch with any questions you might have!

Matt Gerrard

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Acclaimed and award-winning songwriting & production for your project. Bespoke creations that evoke your chosen aesthetic and communicate exactly what you want to say to your audience. Matt can draw on his 25 years of professional experience help you with any stage of your musical project. from developing the initial ideas, right through to recording, editing, mixing and mastering. Also a proficient multi-instrumentalist, Matt is proficient on a number of instruments including Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums, Keys, Turntables, Samplers & numerous genre-specific instruments such as lap steel, mandolin or resonator guitar. This provides him with a really broad palette of sounds from which to draw in order to create the exact sound you’re looking for. A fan of most genres, Matt has particularly extensive experience with Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, RnB, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and Electronica; but his great strength is identifying those stylistic cues and motifs from your reference tracks, and incorporating them into your project in order to evoke the exact mood you're seeking. Additionally, he has extensive experience teaching these topics to others, including a catalog of literally hundreds of ‘How-To’ articles. This strength as a communicator means he’s particularly adept at working with you to quickly understand exactly what it is you need. All projects are considered, please check out my portfolio and feel free to get in touch with any questions you might have!

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Acclaimed and award-winning songwriting & production for your project. Bespoke creations that evoke your chosen aesthetic and communicate exactly what you want to say to your audience.

Matt can draw on his 25 years of professional experience help you with any stage of your musical project. from developing the initial ideas, right through to recording, editing, mixing and mastering.

Also a proficient multi-instrumentalist, Matt is proficient on a number of instruments including Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drums, Keys, Turntables, Samplers & numerous genre-specific instruments such as lap steel, mandolin or resonator guitar. This provides him with a really broad palette of sounds from which to draw in order to create the exact sound you’re looking for.

A fan of most genres, Matt has particularly extensive experience with Rock, Pop, Hip-Hop, RnB, Funk, Jazz, Blues, Folk, and Electronica; but his great strength is identifying those stylistic cues and motifs from your reference tracks, and incorporating them into your project in order to evoke the exact mood you’re seeking.

Additionally, he has extensive experience teaching these topics to others, including a catalog of literally hundreds of ‘How-To’ articles. This strength as a communicator means he’s particularly adept at working with you to quickly understand exactly what it is you need.

All projects are considered, please check out my portfolio and feel free to get in touch with any questions you might have!

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Skills

Ableton Live
Ho
Hook
In
Instrumental
Ji
Jingle
Logic Pro
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Experience Level

Ableton Live
Expert
Hook
Expert
Instrumental
Expert
Jingle
Expert
Logic Pro
Expert
Master
Expert
Mix
Expert
PreSonus Studio One
Expert
Pro Tools
Expert
Propellerhead Reason
Expert
Soundtrack
Expert
Vocal
Expert
Voiceover
Expert
Cakewalk Sonar
Expert
Acapella
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent

Education

Master of Arts with Distinction at University of Central Lancashire
September 2, 2016 - July 20, 2018

Qualifications

Creative Arts Award
March 3, 2023 - February 19, 2024

Industry Experience

Media & Entertainment, Professional Services, Other, Gaming
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    A stumbling, spooky piece of 90s / 00s style hip-hop, with a spacey, jazzy intro. music beat instrumental soundtrack
    uniE603 Get Up (On Your Feet) - National Citizen's Service Ad
    An electronic track with some Afrobeat influences, this piece was created for an ad for the National Citizen's Service here in the UK. Designed to evoke energy and enthusiasm, intended to encourage young people to get out and get active. music beat instrumental
    uniE603 Theme from the TechFeed Podcast
    Created as the theme for the technology podcast, TechFeed. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it features largely electronic synth sounds, and the composition focuses on creating a sense of urgency and immediacy, communicating the up-to-date, finger-on-the-pulse content of the show.
    uniE603 No Papers-Geese
    An eerie, blues inspired intro gives way to a strutting, indie-rock disco chorus, later complete with a screaming fuzz guitar lead. music
    uniE603 Some Weekend Plans -Matt Gerrard
    An advertising spot for a museum in the U.S. running an exhibition on the human body. One of the client's specifications was that the track be based upon a sample of a beating heart, and that other elements of the track would periodically drop out, leaving only the sound of the heart.
    uniE603 Loaded for Bear - Matt Gerrard (as Ralphie Bedlam)
    From the Multimedia Online Installation / Alternate Reality Game “Penta” where Gerrard played the parts of 3 fictional musicians, writing and recording as them, as well as using their respective social media presences to interact with one another. In this song, 70s one-hit-wonder Ralphie Bedlam details a debauched night on the tiles.
    uniE603 Your Sainted Name - Matt Gerrard (As Arthur Mason-Dixon)
    From the Multimedia Online Installation / Alternate Reality Game "Penta" where Gerrard played the parts of 3 fictional musicians, writing and recording as them, as well as using their respective social media presences to interact with one another. This piece is by transient Blues-Folk troubadour Art Mason-Dixon, who takes on the fear, guilt and shame of others and transforms their stories into songs, freeing them from it.