mattgeer.co.uk | composer and organist 
time-consciousness, systems, meditation and completism | phd student (belfast), bmus (guildhall, laurence crane) | third order of the society of st francis

I keep my demos here so I can listen to them

Hello, I am a composer working with acoustic instruments, analog and digital electronics, and field recordings, as well as an educator and a freelance sound designer and live audio engineer based in Berlin.

In my compositional work, I explore the idea of sound as an acoustic phenomenon that, as artistic material, offers the unique characteristic of being fundamentally spectral: although sound is emitted by vibrating entities in physical space, the absence of a bodily materiality by the time it is perceived by the listener lends itself to an experience determined by what is not physically and tangibly present. With this as a point of departure, I have been building a musical language that is defined by a narrative around what is not actually there, an aesthetics of absence and the illusion of presence, an aural phantasmagoria of sorts.

In May 2023 I received my Ph.D. in music composition from Harvard University, where I studied with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. I also have a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from McGill University, and a masters degree in composition and electronic music from the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, where I studied with Mark Andre and Franz Martin Olbrisch. I am currently employed as Lecturer in New Media and Digital Technologies for Music at the Hybrid Music Lab of the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden.

Indexical is a composer-run organization dedicated to experimental music. Indexical produces record releases, a concert series, and publications. We are dedicated to supporting music by composers who work outside of mainstream contemporary music institutions.

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