DETAILS

Email: knowyou.contact@gmail.com

Website: www.knowyoumusic.com

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/toby-boston

Phone: +44 7496 022655

Date of Birth: 25/04/1999

Location: Manchester, UK

ABOUT ME

I am a highly experienced Music Professional and Interdisciplinary Creative with a Master’s degree with Distinction in Sound Arts from the University of Arts London, and a bachelor’s degree with a first-class honour from dBs Music Bristol.

With almost a decade in the music industry, I am extremely familiar with the landscape, I understand how the industry behaves and as a Music Producer myself I am very embedded within the world of music publishing. I am fluent within the digital landscape across all major platforms, with plenty of cross-disciplinary collaboration experience I have fantastic interpersonal & communication skills and a highly professional set of administrative knowledge, familiar with Adobe CS and fluent in MS Office. I have a solid understanding of digital media & web content, with years of experience writing copy & editorial content. As a versatile and adaptable music professional, I have years of experience working across disciplines, with experience across A&R, music publishing, social media marketing & digital media campaigns, video content production & multimedia asset creation, and creative digital brand strategy, to name a few. Over the last decade, I have developed a thorough and diverse skillset within music & media, which has enabled me to be highly adaptable, across creative, administrative and project management responsibilities, able to learn extremely quickly and apply my abilities across practices.

As an interdisciplinary sound & media artist, I create multimedia compositions, experimental audio-visual & installation work, and immersive sound works, crafting bold & unique worlds at the intersection of science, technology & media with an innovative creative approach. I write original musical scores for award-winning short films & trailers plus media & advertising projects, and release electronic music as Know You, with a catalogue totalling almost 400,000 streams, collaborations with brands like the London College of Fashion and Sky Studios, and work featured at London Fashion Week and global film festivals.

My experience over the years has contributed to a unique sense of creative, conceptual, and strategic thinking. I am highly organised, and detail orientated, I’m certainly a perfectionist with my work, but I am very good at working under pressure and working with tight deadlines without sacrificing content, something I have streamlined with good time management. Able to learn extremely quickly, I approach everything with an eagerness to learn new tools and develop my craft. With a relentless drive, I am a highly adaptable & flexible creative with a diverse and interchangeable skillset across mediums.

WHY ME?

As a music producer myself, I am a huge admirer of the work Ultra Publishing does for music artists and writers, creating a platform for talented creatives to work with other talented creators, collaborate and have the opportunity to make all our passions into a career. With numerous friends & collaborators who work around Tileyard, I am a frequent visitor to the site, and I love the vibe that it curates, the kind of energy that drives you as a musician and nurtures that creativity. I believe that not only do I have the versatile and advanced skillset to fulfil the role duties, but I have the right character to complement the team ethic at Ultra.

My relentless drive and pure dedication to the art & craft are what set me apart.

As a musician of almost a decade, I am highly familiar with the studio landscape and proficient across DAWs and various studio equipment. As a problem-solver and quick learner, I am highly fluent at learning new systems very quickly and can adapt seamlessly, so where my technical knowledge may lack in some areas, my motivation, dedication, and work ethic will allow me to get the job done smoothly and efficiently. I am also highly adept to assist the Ultra Publishing operations, with years of professional experience working within the world of music publishing, I founded and solely ran an independent record label & artist collective from the years 2016-2019, where I was managing the label and all its operations, fulfilling all A&R duties while conducting artist development, artist management and new artist research & communication, building relationships with music professionals that still stand to today.

CREATIVE EXPERIENCE

Multimedia Artist & Music Producer – Know You – May 2014/Present

Highly experienced and versatile contemporary multimedia artist & music producer with almost a decade of experience, creating audio-visual & installation work and experimental & immersive sound work with an innovative creative approach, plus producing electronic & contemporary music with a catalogue totalling almost 400,000 streams, collaborations with the London College of Fashion and work featured at London Fashion Week.

Director & Programme Curator— Kickback Film Club — April 2023/Present

Founder of a startup film club with Kickback Coffee Roasters, curating monthly film screenings alongside the seasonal coffee roast, plus filmmaker panels & film events, inviting the community to engage in the wider film & coffee world and create a thriving cultural hub.

Freelance Moderator & Assessor – Association for Accredited Learning – August 2022/Present

Moderating assessed work and assessing learner work against learning objectives and assessment criteria.

Director & Label Manager – Beluga Collective – June 2016/April 2019

Founder, owner, and manager of independent record label and artist collective, delivering all label releases, managing distribution, multimedia asset creation, branding, creative direction, and creative strategy, plus fulfilling artist development and artist management duties.

Freelance Film Composer – Toby Boston – January 2019/Present

Music Composer for film and visual media with over 4 years of experience, delivering unique musical scores for award-winning short films, video projects & trailers, with experience being involved from conception through to post-production and in the development of large-scale projects, working with brands like Sky TV and having work featured at international film festivals and renowned publications.

Freelance Music Writer – Gems & Secrets – July 2020/Present

Music Writer at Gems & Secrets, curating features and writing short-form music reviews plus contributing long-form articles and content recommendations for the monthly newsletter.

Freelance Music Editor – MIRTH Magazine – August 2022/Present

Music Editor at print & web magazine, writing long-form articles, generating & curating content ideas and devising content strategy in collaboration with the creative team for the print magazine, social media & website.

DJ Tutor & Social Media Manager – Showcase Selects – December 2021/July 2022

Tutoring beginner & intermediate DJ’s and planning events as part of the society team, managing the social media pages of the society, creating digital content, leading the creative direction, and devising strategies.

EDUCATION

University of the Arts London – 2021/2022

MA Sound Arts with Distinction

dBs Music Bristol – 2017/2020

BA (Hons) Music Production with First Class Honours

Priestley Sixth Form College – 2015/2017

A Levels: 3D Design, Music Technology & Electronics with BBB grades

WORK EXPERIENCE

Barista – Kickback Coffee Altrincham – January 2022/Present

Bar Staff – The Crown Lymm – July 2020/August 2021

Barista – Coffee#1 Welsh Back – December 2017/April 2020

Bartender – Aiden Byrne’s Church Green – September 2015/July 2017

SKILLS

Artist Relationships & Communications — 6 years

A&R — 3 years

Project Management — 9 years

Interdisciplinary Collaboration – 8 years

Conceptual Creative Research — 6 years

Social Media Marketing & Managment – 6 years

Digital Media & Web Content – 8 years

Editorial & Copy Writing – 3 years

Adobe Creative Suite – 2 years

Digital Production & Video Editing – 6 years

Brand Content Strategy – 6 years

Multimedia Content Creation – 8 years