Matthew Hughes
Composer, audio producer, and multi-instrumentalist focused on cinematic and narrative music—scoring orchestral/film & trailer work, creating adaptive music for games, and delivering story-driven sound design.
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Composer, audio producer, and multi-instrumentalist focused on cinematic and narrative music—scoring orchestral/film & trailer work, creating adaptive music for games, and delivering story-driven sound design. Comfortable owning projects end-to-end: writing, performing, tracking, editing, sound design, vocal production, and final mastering-ready workflow.
Co-founder of AlphaSix, a Boston metal project that reached ~25,000 Spotify monthly listeners at peak and earned press coverage from outlets like Theprp.com and Metal Underground. Also builds AI-assisted production workflows to speed ideation while keeping human judgment on every final creative decision.
- 11 years' experience
- Joined July 2026
Industry experience
- Media & Entertainment
- Gaming
- Education
- Professional Services
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Work experience· 8 roles
Designs repeatable AI-assisted workflows for song development, arrangement testing, lyric iteration, vocal style exploration, and genre targeting with human-led final decisions. Produced concept albums end-to-end, built a full artist website (design/copywriting/SEO/structured data), and launched a YouTube channel with rendered videos; also created practical systems for ideation-to-asset production.
Design repeatable AI-assisted workflows for song development: arrangement testing, lyric iteration, vocal style exploration, and genre targeting with human-led editing at each step. Produced and shipped multiple concept albums end to end, built an artist website (design, copywriting, SEO, structured data), and launched a YouTube channel with rendered videos. Create practical systems (genre tag libraries, prompts, scripts, captions, and release plans) to turn ideas into finished assets.
Compose orchestral and cinematic music for film, trailers, and game contexts, including themes, ambient beds, choir cues, and hybrid orchestral writing. Produces in Reaper using VST orchestration, with a focus on gameplay pacing and environment storytelling. Also applies score sensibilities to released work for AlphaSix, contributing orchestration, synth writing, and sound design across cinematic metal releases.
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