Biography

I am Matthew Hollis, a musician based in Peterborough, United Kingdom. I specialise in dance and house music production, DJ-ing, sound design, foley, music for game, music for media and remixing. I am also the man behind the house artist called Jacques Le Funk.

I was the founder of Matte Productions and The Groove School which received a lot of positive media coverage by the BBC, ITV, Heart FM, Citizen Newspaper, The Guardian and The Evening Telegraph to name a few.

This project allowed young people to learn about DJ-ing and Music production, express themselves creativity and get their point of view across through music; this project was later called upon to provide the same service to the Cambridgeshire Youth Offending service, Peterborough Young Peoples service and the charities Young Lives and YMCA.

CV

RELEVENT EXPERIENCE:

Feb 2012 – Present Soho Runners: Freelance Post-Production Runner

▪   Freelance Runner at a number of Soho based post-production houses namely Absolute post and Evolutions.

Jan 2012 – Wise Buddah: Soho, London
▪ Work experience at the Soho Based audio post-production studio in a runner position
July – Nov 2011 – Terranova, concerto for videogame player and electroacoustic ensemble:
▪ Working to strict briefs, and time constraints set out by the composer Julio d’Escriván,
▪ Researching; working through archives from Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI) and the Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s diary of the Terranova Expedition. I created a Computer game from scratch with only 3 months experience of game design.
Jan – July 2011 Orchard Cottage Recording Studio, employer mentoring:
▪ Studio Experience; communicating with artists
▪ Experience using large production console, Mixing and Mastering
March 2007 – August 2009 Matte Productions & The Groove School: Community Based Projects:
▪ Planning, securing venues, fundraising, budgeting and promoting. I worked closely with Peterborough Youth Offending service, the charity Young Lives and the YMCA.
June 2006 – July 2007 Batcave Recording Studio: Work Experience
▪ Assisting the studio owner, runner type duties (collecting equipment, lunch/drink runs, occasionally picking up artists, repairing/tidying cables).
▪ Experience working in a small yet very busy studio

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS:

2009 – 2012 Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
BA (Hons) Creative Music Technology
2006 – 2008 Stanground College
A Levels: Music Technology: C
2004 – 2006 Walton Community School – Sixth Form
A Levels: Geography: B, Art: C, Design & Technology- Product Design: D
AS Levels: Media Studies: C
1999 – 2004 Walton Community School
10 GCSEs including 4 at A grade (including English Literature), 1 at B grade (including English), 5 at C grade (including Maths & Science)

OTHER ACHEIVEMENTS:

▪ Selected for Undergraduate Researcher Scheme 2011:- During this I attended the NIME Conference, Oslo.
▪ Student Representative 2010 – 11 and re-elected for 2011-12 academic year
▪ Winner of Pride of Peterborough Award 2009,
▪ Runner -up Marks and Spencer ‘Plan A’ volunteer Awards 2009
▪ Runner -up Young Achievers Awards 2008
▪ Awarded with a fellowship from the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2008