Matthew Herbert is a celebrated British artist, producer, composer and experimentalist who has made music from the complete life of a single pig, a bomb exploding in Libya, an orgasm, a town in Poland, a nightclub full of people, 245 shops in a shopping centre and countless thousands of other noises.
Herbert sometimes uses these kinds of sounds in his scores for Oscar-winning films, award-winning tv shows, plays, radio shows, opera and games, and while touring the world both as a performer and DJ. He holds a PhD in the study of power and meaning in post-concrète music, and has built a reputation for unpredictable, ambituous and celebratory live performances that craft arresting stage spectacle from his auditory obsessions.
