Matt Black

Matt Black is half of DJ duo+multimedia pop group Coldcut, founders of Ninja Tune.

In 2025 Ninja Tune celebrated 35 years as one of the world’s leading electronic music labels and a beacon for the independent music spirit. In 2017 Coldcut celebrated 30 years with a string of gigs, releases and special projects. A new album ‘Keleketla’ was released July 2020 to ‘universal acclaim’ (Metacritic).

Known for innovations in DJing, remix, mashup, VJing, software, digital art and multimedia, combining cutting edge artistic expression with positive activist themes in pieces like Journeys by DJ, The Only Way is Up, People Hold On, Timber, Panopticon, Re:volution, Energy Union, Walk a Mile, True Skool… Coldcut have worked with a wild range of artists/activists eg James Brown, Mark E Smith, Queen Latifah, Jello Biafra, Saul Williams, Bernard Purdey, Lisa Stansfield, Steve Reich, Crass, Roots Manuva, Lee Scratch Perry, Adrian Sherwood, Tony Allen, Joe Armon-Jones, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the RCA, Greenpeace, and Avaaz.

His recent inventions include sample instrument Jamm, and Pixi a visual synth instrument. Matt’s stated ambition is to ‘create positive art, music and spiritual technology that blows the mind of the entire planet and advances cooperation’.

TALK
Audio-Visualism. The Art of Audio-Visual Relationship.
What is Audio-Visualism? Matt will call on his 50 years of experience in electronic art and music to explain why it was felt that this is a suitable and needed term for our emerging art form. With examples of the many types of A-V relationships we can play with and including his work with Coldcut, Hex, Ninja Tune and various relevant instruments and inventions.

WEBSITES
ninjatune.net
Coldcut.net
Piratetv.net
Jammpro.net