Matthew Goodheart
composer, pianist, sound installation artist
Matthew Goodheart has developed a wide body of work that explores the relationships between sound and sound production, materiality, and listener. His diverse creations range from immersive sound installations to large-scale microtonal and spatial compositions to open improvisations, which have been featured throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Turkey in such diverse festivals and venues as Mise-En Festival, Estate Fiorentine, Harvestworks, Neue Musik Köln, MaerzMusik, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Performing Media Festival, The International Spectral Music Festival, Infrequent Seams Streamfest, June in Buffalo, Klappsthulfest, Jazz Ao Centro, NIME, and many others.
His numerous awards and honors include the Berlin Prize in Music Composition, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, and a Fulbright Grant to the Czech Republic, where he worked with the historic quartertone pianos designed by Alois Hába. He has released over 15 albums under his own name and appears on numerous others. A lifelong teacher, he is Associate Professor of Music Composition in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is the founder and organizer of the Reembodied Sound Symposium and Festival.