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Matthew Whiteside

Matthew Whiteside is a composer, collaborator, orchestrator and sound designer based in Glasgow. He writes music for concert, film and collaborative installations often-using live electronics within his work. He has scored two feature films (Anna Unbound and The Loudest Sound) and two shorts (Edward and Applemen). He has also worked with composer Charlie Jefferson as an orchestrator and as the sound designer for Edward. As a concert composer 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. His most 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.