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.

About

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!

Industry experience

  • Media & Entertainment
  • Professional Services
  • Other
  • Gaming

Projects · 7

A stumbling, spooky piece of 90s / 00s style hip-hop, with a spacey, jazzy intro. music beat instrumental soundtrack

  • Bassist
  • Drummer
  • Keyboards
  • +2

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

  • Composer
  • Music Producer
  • Musician

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.

  • Composer
  • Drummer
  • Keyboards
  • +1

An eerie, blues inspired intro gives way to a strutting, indie-rock disco chorus, later complete with a screaming fuzz guitar lead. music

  • Bassist
  • Drummer
  • Guitarist
  • +4

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.

  • Composer
  • Drummer
  • Keyboards
  • +1

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.

  • Music Composer
  • Music Producer
  • Musician

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.

  • Guitarist
  • Lyricist
  • Music Producer
  • +3

Education

Master of Arts with Distinction · University of Central Lancashire2016 – 2018
Music Technology & Innovation: Bachelor Of Arts · DeMontfort University2000 – 2004

Certifications and awards

Creative Arts Award2023 – 2024

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