Matt Geer
Dr Matt Geer BMus (Hons) (GSMD) PhD (QUB) is a British composer and organist born in 1996, whose main interests lie in phenomenological approaches to consciousness, system composition and aesthetic philosophy. In a world temporally accelerated by technology, his music explores a range of ways that sounds can influence our consciousness. Meditation, ritual, mental health and chant have a major impact on his aesthetic and compositional output, and he regularly engages with the use of permutational and combinatorial systems. 
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Dr Matt Geer (b. 1996) is a researcher based in Hastings, East Sussex. His philosophical writings engages with issues pertaining to time, especially in relation to music and art aesthetics. He is particularly interested in the experience of time within consciousness. Time is an erratic dimension and a physical property, just like mass or velocity. Geer's writings aim to display how this instability feeds into our consciousness. Questions he often asks himself include: How can we best comprehend a moment in time?
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What distinguishes my present from another's present? How does understanding the lineage of time explain conscious experience? His music is inspired by an amalgamation of Christian theological and philosophical thought alongside an interest in simple mathematics.
As a composer, he is dedicated to the pursuit of using systems and processes in the most bare sense. His music has been workshopped and performed by the BBC |
Singers, EXAUDI, Line Upon Line, musicians from the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Lakeside Brass, City Chamber Choir, Harvard University, Carson Cooman, Heather Roche and Satoko Inoue.
Geer studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama under Dr James Weeks and Laurence Crane. He recently completed a PhD in music composition and its philosophical implications at Queen's University, Belfast under Dr Simon Mawhinney and Prof. Piers Hellawell. |
Reviews
"The talented Geer’s very personal experience so vividly and so imposingly envisaged in this work"
Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub
Sane and Sound Opera by Matt Geer, 2018. Performed at the Arcola Theatre.
Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub
Sane and Sound Opera by Matt Geer, 2018. Performed at the Arcola Theatre.
"Powerful, provocative and beautifully performed throughout. This was a work of challenging technical genius from the creators, delivered to a very high standard."
Rachel, Audience Member
With Mixed Effects, 2019. Performed at the London Centre for Peace and Reconcilliation.
Rachel, Audience Member
With Mixed Effects, 2019. Performed at the London Centre for Peace and Reconcilliation.
"I was engrossed from start to finish. It was highly emotional and brutally honest. It moved me to actual tears!!"
Sarah, Audience Member
Sane and Sound Opera by Matt Geer, 2018. Performed at the Milton Court Theatre.
Sarah, Audience Member
Sane and Sound Opera by Matt Geer, 2018. Performed at the Milton Court Theatre.