Adam Matschulat is an experimental composer and sound designer based between the UK and Spain, working across film, tv, theatre and dance. His practice originates in musique concrète, but now centers on contemporary classical composition.
Formosa (2023)
“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.”
more information: Formosa (2023)
Through the Cracks (2021)
“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
more information: Through the Cracks (2021)
ABOUT
Originally from Brazil, Matschulat studied drama in São Paulo before moving to London to study audio production. His final thesis was mentored by Erik Nyström, a PhD student of Denis Smalley, and resulted in a 40-minute electroacoustic piece and dance performance. Drawing on his background in physical theatre, his early performance work focused on the exploration between movement and noise.
His recent work was presented at the UNESCO Week of Sound (University of Edinburgh, 2025) and Encontres Electroacústics (Fundació ACA, 2024). Other presentations include the Mapa del Ruido Festival (Espacio Pulpo, 2024). He has received the Sound and Music Essentials Fund (2024) and held residencies at Fundació ACA (2024) and Snape Maltings through the Britten Pears Arts Foundation (2023). Supported by Arts Council DYCP funding, he attended the Dartington Music Summer School to develop his compositional practice. In 2022/2023, Edinburgh University commissioned him to compose an electroacoustic piece for Energies not Forms not Figures. This project, centered on dark matter observation, was a collaboration with the late researcher Dr. Rebecca Collins and the science department at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
His 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.
FILM/TV/STAGE
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
- Best Sound Design – Menino Que Morava no Som, 13ª Festival Curta Taquary, Brasil
- Best Sound Design – Menino Que Morava no Som, 12ª Festival de Cinema de Triunfo, Brasil
Credits
- 2025 Punchdrunk ‘Sleep No More – Seoul’
- 2024 Cora: Short Film
- 2023 Punchdrunk ‘The Burnt City – The Last Rite’
- 2023 Punchdrunk ‘The Burnt City – Remix’
- 2022 Ewigkeit: Feature Film
- 2021 V&A Born of Water: Short Documentary
- 2021 Georgia Power, Red Woodpecker: Short Animation
- 2020 Bare: Visual Essay
- 2019 A Helping Hand: Short Animation
- 2019 Ellesse YouTube Shorts: Short-Documentary
- 2019 Dove Skincare Advertisement
- 2018 Lollapalooza Brazil TV Animated Advertisements
- 2018 Menino que morava no Som: Short Film
- 2017 Lollapalooza Brazil TV Animated Advertisements
- 2016 Embaraço: Short Film
- 2016 Diários pt.3: Short Film
- 2015 Who Counts the Steps of the Sun: Feature Film
- 2015 Forgotten Ritual: Short Film
- 2014 Loyalty Exchange: Short Animation
- 2014 Ensaio sobre o Amor: Feature Film
- 2013 Alumbrones: Feature Documentary
- 2013 Pikoko: Pilot Episode, TV Animated Series
- 2013 Globo Menina Fantástica: TV Advertisement
- 2013 Homen na Neblina: Short Film
- 2013 Cardápio Chinês: Short Film
- 2013 A Ilha: Short Film
- 2013 Sabor Maça: Short Film
- 2012 O Pote: Short Animation
- 2012 Lightbox Studios: Animation
- 2012 The Visit: Feature Documentary
- 2012 Nestlé’s Chocolate Factory: Short Animation
- 2012 Museu da Pessoa: Short Animation
- 2012 Ideal Work: Short Animation
- 2012 Una guerra más: Short Film
- 2011 Un dia em Smara: Feature Documentary
- 2011 Luka Starbuster: Short Animation
- 2011 La Calabaza con Ojos: Short Animation
- 2011 Coma: Short Film
- 2010 Azul: Short Film
- 2010 Best Before End: Short Film
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