Adam Matschulat

Adam Matschulat is a music composer and sound designer based between the UK and the Balearic Islands. His diverse output of sound works have included composing for film, immersive theatre, contemporary dance, video-games, sound installations, electroacoustic composition, musique concrete, dream pop, vgm and structural noise music. He has worked under a number of monikers, but his first EP under his own full name ‘Through the Cracks’ was released on Cafe OTO’s TakuRoku (2021). His debut LP ‘Formosa’ was released on 24th March 2023 on Calling Cards Publishing. 

 

Most recently he has been awarded a residency at Fundació ACA (2024), Snape Maltings through Britten Pears Arts Foundation (2023) and the Arts Council DYCP funding to develop his compositional skills under the tutelage of pianist Alexander Hawkins (2023/2024). He also has been commissioned by Edinburgh University to compose an electroacoustic piece for a project in collaboration with artist researcher Dr. Rebecca Collins and the science department in UAM (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) as part of a research project on dark matter observation titled Energies not Forms not Figures (2022/2023). His sound work has had international radio play on radio shows including BBC Radio 3 Late Junction, NTS, Resonance Extra, Ars Sonora & La casa del Sonido on Radio Nacional Clasica in Spain, LYL Radio in Switzerland, FADE radio in Athens, and others. 

 

Matschulat is currently developing Arguments, a new body of work in four parts for viola and cello.

Debut LP ‘Formosa’ was released on 24th March 2023 on Calling Cards Publishing.

The composition’s subject is of my relationship to Formosa’s landscape; its history, its fauna, its flora and its magic. This is where my Germanic descendants emigrated to in the South of Brazil. The place is permeated with mystery, from its past, from its pious residents and from the land itself. Through the recordings I’ve made over the years I investigate notions of family, safety, emotional reciprocation with nature and what it means to belong.”

Previous Release

Adam Matschulat – Through the Cracks (2021)

“On ‘Through the Cracks’, Adam Matschulat uses his deft approach to musique concrete & electronic minimalism to carve a space of being: a sonic domain that comes to terms with entangled interior and exterior worlds. Both a meditation on time and upheaval, opening piece ‘Through the cracks’ begins with an overwhelming wall of opaque noise, before entering a wistful journey. Adam delicately renders his narrative in dream time, floating between ruminating keyboard motifs, tumbling aquatic sound worlds, the clatter of footsteps, the turning of a page, a tape player switching on and off.” – Takuroku / Cafe OTO

Original Composition and Sound Design

Awards

  • • Best Music – Menino Que Morava no Som (2° Festival de Cinema de Soledade, Brasil)
  • • Best Sound Design – Menino Que Morava no Som (2° Festival de Cinema de Soledade, Brasil)
  • • Best Sound Design – Menino Que Morava no Som (24ª Cine PE – Festival do Audiovisual, Brasil)
  • • Best Sound Design – Menino Que Morava no Som (13ª Festival Curta Taquary – Festival Internacional de Curtas-metragens, Brasil)
  • • Best Sound Design – Menino Que Morava no Som (12ª Festival de Cinema de Triunfo, Brasil)

Sound Design Showreel

Spotlight: Sound Design & Original Composition for TV

Credits

  • • Cora (2024): Short Film – Original Composition
  • • Redblock (2024): Short Teaser Animation – Original Composition & Sound Design
  • • Punchdrunk ‘The Burnt City – The Last Rite’ (2023): Theatre/Dance – Sound Design
  • • Punchdrunk ‘The Burnt City – Remix’ (2023): Theatre/Dance – Sound Design
  • • Ewigkeit (2022): Feature Film – Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • V&A’s Born of Water (2021): Short Documentary and Trailer – Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Moon Story (2021): Feature Animation Film – Producer, Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Dream Diaries (2021): Short YouTube Series – Producer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Georgia Power’s Woodpecker (2020): Short Animation – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Bare (2020): Short Documentary – Composer, Sound Designer and Dubbing Mixer
  • • Ministério Público do Trabalho “A Helping Hand” (2019): Short Animation – Sound Designer, Voice-Over Recording & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Ellesse YouTube Shorts (2019): Short-Documentary – Dubbing Mixer
  • • Dove Skincare Shorts (2019): Advertisement – Dubbing Mixer
  • • La Parume (2019): Advertisement – Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Menino que morava no Som (2018): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Lollapalooza Brazil TV Spots (2018): Animated Advertisement – Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Grupo Mídia São Paulo (2018): Audio Branding – Sound Designer
  • • Lollapalooza Brazil TV Spots (2017): Animated Advertisement – Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Lollapalooza Brazil TV Spots (2017): Advertisement – Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Embaraço (2016): Horror Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Wamiki (2016): Audio Branding – Sound Designer
  • • Diários pt.3 (2016): Short Film – Sound Designer
  • • Who Counts the Steps of the Sun (2015): Feature Film – Sound Designer, Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Forgotten Ritual (2015): Short Film –  Composer, Sound Designer, Voice-Over & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Feira Apas Promo Video (2015): Short Animation – Sound Designer, Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Loyalty Exchange (2014): Short Animation – Sound Designer, Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Quem Somos Eu? (2014): Pilot Episode TV Series – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Ensaio sobre o Amor (2014): Feature Film – Sound Designer, Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Alumbrones (2013): Feature Documentary – Sound Editor, Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Lost Boy Productions (2013): Audio Branding – Sound Designer
  • • Pikoko (2013): Pilot Episode TV Animated Series – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Menina Fantástica (2013): TV Advertisement – Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Homen na Neblina (2013): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Cardápio Chinês (2013): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • A Ilha (2013): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Sabor Maça (2013): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Quanta Conversa (2013): Audio Branding – Sound Designer
  • • O Pote (2012): Animated Advertisement – Sound Designer, Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Lightbox Studios (2012): Audio Branding – Sound Designer
  • • The Visit (2012): Feature Documentary – Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Nestlé’s Chocolate Factory (2012): Animated Advertisement – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Museu da Pessoa (2012): Animated Advertisement – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Saraiva Interactive (2012): Animated Shorts – Sound Designer
  • • Ideal Work (2012): Short Animation – Sound Designer, Music Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Una guerra más (2012): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Un dia em Smara (2011): Feature Documentary – Sound Editor & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Luka Starbuster (2011): Short Animated Trailer – Sound Designer
  • • La Calabaza con Ojos (2011): Short Animation – Sound Designer
  • • Coma (2011): Short Film – Composer, Sound Designer & Dubbing Mixer
  • • Azul (2010): Short Film – Sound Designer
  • • Best Before End (2010): Short Film – Composer & Sound Designer

Other Musical Projects

Matschulat (noise, musique concrete)

“Matschulat offers a reverie through dramatic soundscapes filled with detailed nuances to disorientated junctures made of meticulously composed field-recording collages. Heavily inspired by Hyeronymus Bosch’s work and beautifully permeated with anguish, it is a piercing meeting of noise, musique concrete and acousmatic work.” – Heathen Harvest

Glynmoog (dreampop / vgm / lo-fi)

glynmoog

GLYNMOOG is Adam Matschulat’s VGM & dream pop-inspired project. With a passion for storytelling, GLYNMOOG weaves together soundscapes and nostalgic melodies that invites listeners to realms of introspection and wonder. Drawing from the rich tradition of video games, the project crafts a journey where each track feels like a chapter in a larger, unfolding narrative. GLYNMOOG had its debut with Moon Story, an instrumental animated pixel art film/album in 2021.

Listen more:

Spotify

YouTube

Bandcamp

Godasadog (alternative)

“Feelings of solitude, absence and longing are brought to the surface on Godasadog’s new single ‘Gaivota’.” – Tenho Mais Discos que Amigos

FMFL (dreampop)

“Functional Music for Lovers is the debut dreampop album from FMFL, if you’re looking for an electrifyingly cathartic mix, you’re in for an absolute treat, also a Theremin… who doesn’t love a Theremin?! The album progress with blissfully nostalgic tonality. Some of the tracks run a little more playfully than the more pensive tracks to the debut album, which gives the album a great diversity and makes it the perfect soundtrack to kick back to.”

Contact

hello@adamatschulat.com