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

WHY ME?

I've been following your work for a while now, and I really admire what you do at Elephant. The work you did for When Evil Lurks with utterly visceral, gut-wrenching sounds that create a sense of pure terror and horror and the work for Anatomy of a Fall is incredible, one of my most anticipated films this year, and the sound in the trailer just adds depth to the dark intrigue twinged with that 'scandi-noir' icy sonic quality (as I call it) that really builds the tension. As a multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary creative with almost a decade of experience, I believe I am the perfect candidate for this role. Not only do I bring a wealth of creative experience and skills across the coordination, organisation and management side of the industry, I am also a highly experienced composer and musician, able to contribute to the studio running across the board.

I have been immersed in the creative world for almost a decade, working across disciplines and collaborating across mediums, during that time I have amassed a vast, diverse & interchangeable skillset with a dedicated work ethic and the ability to learn new skills & tools extremely quickly and adapt to new disciplines with fluidity. I have experience with dozens of projects on which I have worked as the creative producer, with a handful of large-scale commercial products as executive producer, overseeing the creative production of small teams and managing the project from briefings with the directors, through the production and composition process, and to final delivery, experienced both as a project manager and as a part of a creative team and comfortable balancing multiple ongoing projects while meeting tight deadlines and prioritising appropriately. As a multimedia video & sound artist with years of experience creating artworks, brand strategies, curatorial & tastemaker projects, and creative content across a diverse range of mediums & platforms, I have been immersed in the creative world for almost a decade, working and collaborating across disciplines. This, combined with my years and years of managing creative projects and brands, has given me a keen eye for consistent brand image and creative content strategy, from ideation to content creation and execution. I have been conceptualizing and implementing creative campaigns & strategies across platforms and media formats for almost a decade, with years of experience creating both written & visual content, collaborating alongside a wide range of creatives and working with other artists and brands. 

With a familiarity in Adobe Creative Suite, a unique visual flair built on a background in product design and an artistic practice based in visual art & media, I bring a signature approach to content creation and brand visualisation, with skills in photography, videography, graphic design, video production & editing. With solid curative vision and taste-making ability, I am able to capture a vision and a brand image through creative content across text, image and video. I bring a genuinely unique perspective on creativity, with innovation at the heart of my work whilst working across large-scale commercial and niche, underground projects, this has allowed me to nurture a powerful ability to work across disciplines and mediums, with an intuitive sense of what a project needs to allow it to flourish, which I believe will enable to extract the most out of every opportunity and allow to become a crucial asset for the team. My two strongest qualities are my problem-solving, adaptability, and ability to learn very quickly and apply my skillset, which I really bring to the table, able to pick up new platforms, systems and tools fluently to optimise my creativity. I cherish the opportunity to reinvent and repurpose my creativity with every unique project brief, I love the process of immersing myself fully into a project, building aesthetic worlds from the ground up and challenging my own practice.

ABOUT ME

I am a Multimedia Artist 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 of experience, I am fluent within the digital landscape across all major platforms, implementing digital media campaigns across mediums with a high level of ability in multimedia content creation across platforms and media. I have proficient video editing and production skills, plus a keen eye for consistent brand image from a graphic design background and an artistic practice built-in digital media art. 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 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. I have an advanced ability to shape sound and translate creative ideas into powerful sonic narratives, with years of experience translating written briefs & creative concepts into music, using sonic tools to build immersive sound worlds that create a narrative and tell a story. Creating bespoke music production & compositions for advertising, narrative film and a wide range of custom multimedia projects across disciplines & musical styles, I have a highly advanced set of professional digital audio crafting skills, able to capture mood, emotion and aesthetics through the power of music that are both unique and accessible, fluent navigating Ableton Live and familiar with Logic. Along with my highly advanced digital audio skills and diverse skillset across disciplines, I bring a relentless drive and dedication to my craft, with a burning passion for innovation at the cutting edge of sound & media. 

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.

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

Multimedia Content Creation – 8 years

Digital Media & Web Content – 8 years

Editorial & Copy Writing – 3 years

Digital Production & Video Editing – 6 years

Brand Content Strategy – 6 years

Social Media Marketing – 6 years

Interdisciplinary Collaboration – 8 years

Brand Identity/Management – 6 years

Adobe Creative Suite – 2 years

Organisational & Administrative Skills–6 years

RELEASE PROMO 1 (TEASER)

RELEASE PROMO 2 (ANNOUNCEMENT)

INSTAGRAM FEED

CREATIVE DIRECTION

CALAMITY (TRAILER)

Short Film Trailer (2022)

Bespoke Music Composition

SATV PUBLISHING — WALL OF NOISE 45: PRIMAL

Production Music: Trailer Library (2023)

Custom Music Composition to a Brief