SELECTED CREDITS
Y'VAN:
THE LOST SOUNDS OF SAIGON
Composer
2024 >
Y Vân: The Lost Sounds of Saigon is a feature length documentary film that tells the epic story of Y Vân, a legendary Vietnamese composer, and his granddaughter Khoa as she journeys to uncover and preserve his lost music. Forthcoming.
THROUGH THE VEIL
Composer
2024 >
Through the Veil meditatively & artistically documents a sacred gathering of Nepalese Buddhist monks in support of peace for Palestine. Forthcoming.
INTRODUCING HOMEOPATHY
Music Team
2024 >
Introducing Homeopathy is a beautifully shot new feature length documentary providing ample evidence for the power of Homeopathy to heal humans and animals. Forthcoming.
St Marks is a new comedy TV series set in Brooklyn, currently in production. Forthcoming.
SINES is a union of music and technology that elevates mental health, wellness and performance optimization in all sectors of industry and society. I'm honored to join their small team of very talented composers.
Nicholson & Belle is our sound healing performance troupe established 2018 in Los Angeles to offer sound baths and other immersive musical occasions. Our current residency is at Indian Springs Resort, Calistoga, California.
"Australian-born Matthew Liam Nicholson creates ethereal experimental folk rock, combining unexpected instrumentation with haunting melodies to create a universe all his own. His forthcoming LP Universal Outsider features intricately layered orchestral textures and uniquely poetic lyrics, with a timeless quality that puts him far above the average singer/songwriter. For fans of Sufjan Stevens, Father John Misty & Animal Collective" - Koze Music
I was honored to be commissioned to compose the score for the Quandra Loka - a 55 minute long video installation of sublime underwater multiple exposures by the artist & spiritual master Adi Da Samraj. My composition partner for this project was piano legend Nick Milo (Joe Cocker, Tower of Power, East Bay Soul)
Nine Movements (featuring Miguel Atwood-Ferguson) is an Ambient/Modern Classical album released by Longform Editions. It was composed for immersive, meditative participation in live sound bath occasions. The Guardian cited it's Longform Editions release as a hidden gem of 2021.
Composed the score (with strings maestro & longtime collaborator Dominic Johnson) to this beautiful short film set in Mongolia with one of the last remaining nomadic Reindeer herding family groups. Featured in many film festivals.
Two sisters, with supernatural powers, are kidnapped by sex traffickers. The kidnappers, unknowing of their victims' unique powers, are in for a rude awakening upon realizing they messed with the wrong girls. A very fun thriller to score.
White Wolves is a beautifully shot surf film involving water, romance and healing.
CRSHD is an indie comedy feature directed by the talented young Emily Cohn - involving arts school shenanigans. CRSHD debuted at Tribeca Film Festival, New York, 2019.
I composed the score to a film about the the spiritual teacher Adi Da. An Original Soundtrack Album was created from extended cuts of the film score, which I produced.
I was commissioned by Red Bull to create an album of 20 instrumental pieces. Half were guitar based indie rock, the other half more electronic.
AT ALL is an experimental electronic pop group with Pascal Babare and Lucy J Roleff. Sun Dog is our first LP. It caught some critical sunshine and a few syncs in US & AU Film & TV.
LA PETITE MORTE
Composer
2010
Defying Empire was an historical exhibition of contemporary Australian Indigenous artists at the National Gallery of Australia. I composed the music to numerous of short films about the artists involved.
I was commissioned to compose the score for the main audio-visual component for The Ascent of Orpheus, a fine art exhibtion of Adi Da Samraj's Transcendental Image-Art. My composition looped throughout the Bargello National Museum of Florence, Italy (housing priceless renaissance works) for 3 months.