Senior Lecturer in Music Business & Management
Matt Gooderson is a professional music producer and senior lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts. Matt teaches Artist Development and music business with a strong focus on helping students achieve their goals with a mixture of creativity theories and creative practice.
Bio
Matt Gooderson is senior lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts with a central focus on creative, entrepreneurial practices. Central to Matt’s philosophy is promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity through diverse programmes of study and authentic, real-world assessment.
Alongside his academic work, Matt has a career as a music producer, songwriter, composer, remixer and performer. In 2003 Matt founded the band Infadels with Alex Bruford (ATC Live) and Bnann Watts (Charlie XCX). The Infadels’ career highlights include over five hundred shows in twenty different countries, a number one dance album and a number one independent single which culminated in the sale of over fifty thousand records earning them an Impala silver award.
In 2020 Matt signed a new record contract with the prestigious electronic-classical label Village Green after scoring a remix for the award-winning Matt Dunkley (Inception, Black Swan, Massive Attack, Nick Cave) creating music for a new advert for Nowness, and releasing the critically acclaimed album, Land Waves and returned to live performance in 2019 performing at London’s prestigious South Bank center and collaborated on the art exhibition; Wilderness for the Mind with the Wilderness Art Collective.
Matt’s productions and compositions have been also used in a variety of media settings including games (Grand Turismo, FIFA), television (CSI Miami), and advertising (Mazda, 3 Mobile, Cheryl Cole’s ‘Stylist Pic’, and Carling) and streamed over 10,000,000 times.
As a researcher, Matt explores music production, technology and the creative process, and has begun to publish his findings in academic outlets as well as through communication and engagement with the public and industry.
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