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

COVER LETTER

I have been following your work at FACT for a few years now, I had a membership to 180 Studios while I was studying for my postgraduate degree in London and went to most of the exhibitions showcased at 180 during my time there. I fell in love with the LUX exhibition, I ended up attending about half a dozen times and I credit it with discovering my passion for visual arts and installation work. I also went to see Future Shock and Richard Mosse’s Broken Spectre, both of which had such a significant impact on my creative identity and artistic development, I genuinely believe that my experiences at 180 Studios are significant factors towards my success at the postgraduate level, towards my final exhibition project, and to the creator that I am today. Since moving back home to Warrington, I have been to FACT Liverpool a couple of times and had a look around the exhibitions, I love the space and the culture that the site has curated in the area, plus, as a huge film enthusiast and practising as a film composer, I love the film programme you have curated at FACT. I have such an admiration for the entire organisation, I really respect how you are dedicated to building culture and community around bold artistic voice and innovative creativity, something that I hold so intrinsic to my own artistic practice and creative vision. To be able to work as part of a cultural organisation such as FACT would be such an incredible opportunity, this kind of opportunity is what I have been working towards my whole life and developing over the last half-decade. I truly believe this is a position where I can utilise my years of experience, unique set of creative skills and innovative vision, and where I can become a part of something much bigger than myself where I can actually make a change and continue to develop my artistic and creative practice.

WHY ME?

As a multi-faceted and multi-disciplinary creative and contemporary artist, 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 ability to learn new skills & tools extremely quickly and adapt to new disciplines with fluidity. I have developed strong curatorial skills over the last few years, during my time studying both my undergraduate degree and especially my postgraduate degree in MA Sound Arts at the University of Arts London. As part of this experience, I studied curation modules and was a central part of the curation of my final project exhibition, which involved curating a dozen projects that all incorporated a significant sound element, which required meticulous planning and structure in its curation and exhibition. I was almost solely responsible for the technical setup of my project which involved synchronised audio and visual elements and projections, on top of being heavily involved in creative choices within the exhibition curation and assisting in fellow students’ setup and performance.

All of this experience, compounded with my years of experience as a multimedia video & sound artist 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. 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.

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 an award-nominated 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.

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

Award-nominated 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 / TRAILER)

RELEASE PROMO 2 (ANNOUNCEMENT)

LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION — LCFMA22 CATWALK

Official London Fashion Week Catwalk (2022)

Executive Soundtrack Production & Bespoke Music Composition

A SUGGESTIVE WAX SUGGESTS A WANE

Digital Film (2023) - part of Xylophobia: Online from Fermyn Woods Contemporary Art

Original Music Composition & Sound Design

RELEASE PROMO 1 (TEASER)

RELEASE PROMO 2 (ANNOUNCEMENT)

INSTAGRAM FEED

CREATIVE DIRECTION