A mysteriously beautiful and simple piece for a small ensemble. Expressive, mellow and meditative. Quiet clarinets play minimalistic melodies over plucked and trembling strings. Perfect as background music for documentaries about fascinating or mystical places.

Limitations - Melancholy

A mysteriously beautiful and simple piece for a small ensemble. Expressive, mellow and meditative. Quiet bassoon and clarinet play minimalistic melodies over expressive violin and cello. Perfect as background music for documentaries about fascinating or mystical places.

Limitations - Longing

A melancholy piece for orchestra reminiscent of a rainy city night. An expressive melody floats above a repeating rhythm of doleful chords. Slightly third stream jazz, it is a perfect feel for any noir, reflective or feeling down media.

Nostalgia

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A disturbingly haunting and weirdly beautiful piece. Quiet, plucked harp and strange chords star in this composition well suited for psychological thrillers, horror, documentaries, tragedies, halloween exhibits, crime, history, ghost stories

ECLECTIC SELECTIONS

Tears

Sardonic and sincere; grotesque and charming; anxious and triumphant - packed into just under eight minutes of orchestral music and using only two harmonic intervals as building blocks of melody and harmony. This 2019 recording is more expressive and dynamic than its 2017 predecessor - so be careful with the volume knob there are extremes of loud and quiet!

Intervals # 6 - Last Waltz

A not so friendly circus with clowns that make off-color balloon animals. A combination of comic menace with sneakiness and lightheartedness. Catchy themes and fugue middle. Alternative universe Peter and the Wolf. Great for animation, dark comedy, Tim Burton-esque material, circuses, quirky games

I Am Yours

Canons constructed with only four notes and its phrases using each of the twenty-four combinations of four notes and twenty-four chord inversions once. All this while maintaining a sense of beauty.

Four About Four, no. 3: IV. Acceptance

A very expressive slow movement from an unproduced musical I created with writing partner Sean Browning. In spite of the very impressionistic moody music here, the musical itself was a surreal parody of the Coen Brother's Fargo. What the Fargo?!, it was called. All in a day's work!

SNOW ANGELS

No Responders Left Behind Original Soundtrack

A Farewell

Matthew Reid is a critically acclaimed, award winning composer for film, television, games and theatre. His funny songs have delighted almost a million people during his tenure as composer for Toronto’s world famous Second City comedy theatre. His comedic musical, The Second City Guide to the Symphony was has been performed by top orchestras across North America since 2014.

As a film composer, he recently won several awards as a composer collaborating with Tim Burton’s producer, Derek Frey on the multiple award-winning film, Green Lake.