Multi-platinum selling producer, composer, musician, and DJ, Matt Lange challenges categorization; equipped with an instinctual ear for creating music and an insatiable drive to explore the aural spectrum.

Lange’s career began working alongside multi-instrumentalist and producer Brian Transeau (BT), co-producing the album "These Hopeful Machines," earning him a Grammy Award-nomination in 2011. Matt then went on to co-write and produce Glenn Morrison’s "Goodbye (feat. Islove)" which was nominated as Dance Recording of the Year at the 2015 Juno Awards and later hit double platinum. Most recently, Lange was a producer on the Thirty Seconds To Mars album "AMERICA," which debuted #2 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.

An adept music composer, and sound designer, Lange has created and licensed works for the blockbuster films Ready Player One, Blade Runner 2049, Deadpool 2, The Fast & Furious 8, and Transformers: The Last Knight along with video game franchises Counter-Strike Global Offensive, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, and DOTA II.

As an artist, Matt Lange has released records with some of the most influential electronic dance music labels in the industry such as Anjunabeats, mau5trap, and Armada and has performed across esteemed venues and festivals like Output, Sound Nightclub, Ministry of Sound, TomorrowWorld, EDC, and SXSW. Unburdened by genre and trends, the signature of Lange’s work is the relentless devotion to pushing music into the future.

Matt is also the host of Tap Tempo, a podcast which features insightful interviews with peers and collaborators ranging from A-list composers to DJs and includes artists from all backgrounds.

BIO

Matteo Maria Salvo is an italian composer and artist rased in Rome.
After his studies in Piano he graduated with the highest marks in Composition (C. Scannavini, G. Cappelli), Choir conducting (L. Lollini) and Film music (A. Zarrelli, G. De Gaetano) at the Conservatories of Cesena and Bologna. He completed his studies at Mozarteum in Salzburg with Kurt Schwertsik and Georg Friedrich Haas and in Accademia Chigiana with Luis Bacalov (2014) and then with Simone Fontanelli (2024). Both of them awarded him the Merit Diploma. 

His music is presented and performed in international festivals such as Mixtur (2023 and 2024), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (2023), Impuls (2023), Barcelona Modern Festival (2024), Chigiana International Festival 2024 Tracce, Mozarteum Salzburg, Festival Pontino, Livorno Music Festival, MusicaRivaFestival, Italia Green Film Festival, KLK New Music, Festival Metamorfosi and in institutions as Casa del Cinema, Teatro Monumental, L’ Auditori, Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra, Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, Palazzo Chigi-Saracini, Mozarteum (Solitär), Teatro Moriconi, Teatro Pergolesi, Concert Hall of Lviv National Philarmonic. Among the artists who perform his music Fabrik Quartet, OCAZEnigma,  ContempoArtEnsemble, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, String quartet of Lviv Philarmonic Chamber Orchestra, Kai Strobel, Maurizio Ben Omar, Robbie Bui. 
He had the opportunity - through the festivals - to meet and present his works to great composers such as Christopher Austin (who awarded him a commission for ContempoArtEnsemble during Livorno Music Festival), Pierre Jodlowski, Mark Andre, Marco Stroppa, Georg Friedrich Haas and Franck Bedrossian.
Matteo Maria Salvo distinguished himself in various competitions, International Composing Competition 2 Agosto, Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Papa Benedetto XIV, Premio Peter Maxwell Davies, and recently the Special Prize at the 4th Ise-Shima International Composition Competition 2024. The short animation movie "Tirello - Soap bubbles" with his music was premiered in Panorama International Short Film Festival.  He published with Sonitus Edizioni Musicali.
At the moment commisions for 2025 include a piece for ensemble for the Barcelona Modern Ensemble and a piece for Piano to be performed during a public concert at Impuls Festival 2025 (february).
 Matteo moreover took his degree in Architecture at the University of Bologna and he loves, besides music, to paint and to draw.  His first solo exhibition “Dream” has took place in the Galleria del Ridotto near Bologna and his next personal exhibition will take place in Rome in 2025.

EMAIL: matteos854@gmail.com

Artificial Disco is the alter ego of Daníel Sigurðsson, composer and trumpet player from Iceland. Dedicated to exploring everything electronic, the music ranges from jazzy drum and bass and wistful ambient techno to electronically enhanced funk.

Treat yourself to some synthetically derived, cybernetically infused, stereo-enhanced, super-saturated, electro-magnetic musical fantasies, and listen to some Artificial Disco.

arturo.fornasari is following