Emma-Kate Matthews

Emma-Kate is an architect, composer, musician and researcher.

She has released a number of solo electronic and classical-fusion works including ‘Similis’ on Musicity Global (2019) ‘Far Flung’ on Algebra Records (2020), and ‘Remote Overlap’ on NMC Records (2021). Her audio-visual composition for Polar Sounds was released by Cities and Memory in February 2023, which uses recordings of sea ice from the Antarctic. Her solo bass Clarinet composition for the Royal Academy of Music's '200 Pieces' project was released in Jan 2023. In addition to being a multi-instrumentalist, she also designs and makes her own instruments: She was nominated for the 2021 Lumen prize for Art and Technology and the Aesthetica art prize 2022 for her project ‘Resonant Bodies’. Her instruments were exhibited at the 2022 Works + Words Architecture Biennale in Copenhagen.

In addition to composing on the London Symphony Orchestra’s Panufnik scheme (2022), her work has been performed internationally at acoustically distinctive sites such as the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, London’s Southbank Centre the Barbican Centre and Brighton Festival.

She hosts an eclectic radio show on RTM.FM called Hunter Gatherer.

She has also released under the alias: <a href="spotify:artist:45KB9aPEbVBsJzsYKqcg5i" data-name="EKM Works">EKM Works</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:4C2tD9ntUYmvc03jAmwUG9" data-name="EKM">EKM</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5F4ob6wSGB24EZ5lTCVJ6S" data-name="DIAS">DIAS</a>
www.ekm.works