Biography
Matt Morton is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and engineer/producer from Columbus, Ohio, United States, perhaps best know at this point for the score he composed for the Apollo 11 documentary film (2019).
Morton started on the guitar at age 9 and went on to learn the bass, piano, drums, mandolin, cuatro, charango, ukulele, banjo and cello. He was a founding member, lead guitarist and vocalist for the rock band, The Shantee, with which he has recorded several albums, toured nationally, and opened for artists such as George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic, Blues Traveler, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, the Neville Brothers, Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers, Widespread Panic and The National.
His feature-length scores include 'Scaring the Fish' starring Max Casella and Anthony Rapp, John Urbano's Panama documentary 'Beauty of the Fight', Todd Douglas Miller's Emmy-winning Sundance documentary 'Dinosaur 13' (Lionsgate, CNN Films) and 'Apollo 11' (NEON, CNN Films, MacGillivray Freeman). He is also the founder of the music production company Studio 651 Ltd. and its publishing division, Studio 651 Publishing (BMI).
Matt's most recent project is the feature-length, all-archival documentary 'Apollo 11'. He wrote, orchestrated, performed, recorded, and mixed all of the original music for the film, as well as the teaser trailer and the theatrical trailer. Every instrument and effect used in the score existed at the time of the mission in 1969 including a Moog modular Synthesizer IIIc (a reissue of the 1968 version - 1 of 25 in the world), a Binson Echorec 2 (tube echo), a Mellotron (early keyboard sampler used by The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, etc.), a Hammond organ, various period drum machines, and the orchestra.
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