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 Composer, Music Producer, Multimedia Artist & Multidisciplinary Digital Creative with a master’s degree with a Distinction in Sound Arts from the University of Arts London and a bachelor’s degree with a first-class honour from dBs Music Bristol.

As a composer & music producer, I bring a unique and signature approach to sound, working at the cutting edge of innovation across disciplines. 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, working with brands like Sky TV, Paramount+, London Fashion Week and London College of Fashion, and agencies like Molecular Sound and Silk Factory. . 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 Pro and Cubase. 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. I see myself as a storyteller, my medium of choice just happens to be music. I love telling a story and building a world using sound and music, this is where I thrive and this is what gives me purpose as a creator.

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.

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

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

Bespoke Film & Media Composition – 4 years

Music Production — 9 years

Composing to a Brief – 6 years

Sound Design – 6 years

Bespoke Trailer & Commercial Music — 3 years

Sonic Identity – 6 years

Conceptual Creative Research — 6 years

Ableton Live — 7 years

Logic Pro — 1 year

Cubase — 2 years

VST Plugins — 9 years

Audio Mixing & Mastering – 8 years