Matthew Whiteside

“Effective and Unsettling” - BBC Music Magazine
“Post-minimalist bold sparseness” - The Herald

<a href="spotify:artist:5O6zANkIw2xYdZV9oWnpeC" data-name="Matthew Whiteside">Matthew Whiteside</a> named as one of List&#39;s Hot 100 for 2019, is a composer and concert producer based in Glasgow running The Night With.... He is the winner of the Light Moves Innovative Use of Sound Award for his Quartet No. 4 (Entangled) with Marisa Zanotti and commissioned by the Institute of Physics for the 2018 NI Science Festival. His second album <a href="spotify:album:3cx3Z81G9EqCTxI9nbQVFv" data-name="Entangled">Entangled</a> features three string quartets and electroacoustic responses.

He has received international performances by <a href="spotify:artist:07D9NFbRVCnuIs4GX5rGyL" data-name="Crash Ensemble">Crash Ensemble</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6aoYSXa7aYKzqYs4MBMMf3" data-name="Garth Knox">Garth Knox</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1UKYHr4TXjVaLFkQ0Y0Frq" data-name="RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra">RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2FEFOnajuDfsPnee073gZd" data-name="Red Note Ensemble">Red Note Ensemble</a>, the <a href="spotify:artist:7zsTfJ7VLoXnwGa7e31TAR" data-name="Aurea Quartet">Aurea Quartet</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1xv4cSS0J8FwugOTcCj3pi" data-name="The Robinson Panoramic Quartet">The Robinson Panoramic Quartet</a> at venues such as Dublin&#39;s National Concert Hall, Glasgow City Halls, Salem Artworks in New York and the Belfast International Festival at Queen&#39;s. He has been commissioned by Scottish Opera, Cottiers Chamber Project and Lorimer Productions for Cappella Nova and co-commissioned by sound festival and R-Space gallery to collaborate with Dominika Mayovich to create an interactive sound/art installation featuring <a href="spotify:album:6wul4VyrIR9IuYqPngBvPt" data-name="Exhibition Music">Exhibition Music</a>

Whiteside&#39;s <a href="spotify:track:28GRApow5N2jOEN73qq9Wd" data-name="Solo for Viola D'amore and Electronics">Solo for Viola D'amore and Electronics</a>, recorded by <a href="spotify:artist:7IOzQaGft6pzawHCZ9VQME" data-name="Emma Lloyd">Emma Lloyd</a> was described as having the effect &#39;of meditation - a Japanese stone garden whose raked ripples have been brought into sound&#39; by Musicweb Internationa. It features on <a href="spotify:album:1XFrDPqat8CeWWqa6xhJuQ" data-name="Dichroic Light">Dichroic Light</a> released in 2015.

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