Matthew Whiteside is the One To Watch in the Sunday Herald culture awards 2017. He is a 'cerebral composer and sound designer who’s creating works to challenge the 21st century consensus.' He writes music for concert, film and collaborative installations while often-using live electronics he seeks to create work with a meditative quality inviting the listener to project upon and experience on their own, rather than the composer’s, terms.

Recent work has included a short opera Little Black Lies commissioned by Scottish Opera Connect, with libretto by Helene Grøn, Entangled commissioned by the Institute of Physics for the 2018 NI Science Festival and working on a new installation called We Are All Made of Stars with filmmaker/chorographer Marisa Zanotti and Magnetic North.

His music has been performed across the world including Dublin’s National Concert Hall, Glasgow City Halls, Salem Artworks in New York and the Belfast International Festival at Queen’s. He has been commissioned by Lorimer Productions and Cottier Chamber Project and in 2015 was co-commissioned by sound festival and R-Space gallery to collaborate with Dominika Mayovich to create a sound/art interactive installation.

Matthew’s recent work Solo for Viola D’amore and Live Electronics was described as having the overall effect of ‘one of meditation – a Japanese stone garden whose raked ripples have been brought into sound’ by Musicweb International and features on his debut album Dichroic Light released in 2015 and funded by Creative Scotland. It is available from Amazon and iTunes.

He composed the music for BBC 4 documentary 'Michael Palin's Quest for Artemisia' presented by Michael Palin and David Graham Scott's The End of the Game. He has scored two feature films (Anna Unbound and The Loudest Sound) and a short (Chris Bogle's Do Not Disturb!). In 2013 he was selected to attend both Ghent Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festivals sound lab programmes.

Matthew also produces and directs The Night With... putting classical music into informal venues.

Copies of Matthew's flute music can be purchased from Tetractys